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Subject: Re: Weird Draw Claim?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 14:33:09 07/11/03

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On July 11, 2003 at 17:14:56, Luis Smith wrote:

>Hello everyone,
>
>     Last night I played a few games between Fritz 8 and Shredder 7.04.  Fritz
>was well on its way to mate Shredder, it promoted the pawn, but then after
>playing weird moves in a mate position it accepted a draw!  I am not sure if it
>offered the draw or if Shredder did.
>
>Question
>
>Should I:
>
>a)Change the draw claim to a win for Fritz
>b)Replay the game
>c)Throw the game out?
>
>Thanks for the input
>Luis Smith

It is very likely a problem (bug? -- user error?) involving EGDBs. After
64...Kxf3, Chessmaster 9000 sees a forced mate in 8 in four seconds on my humble
P3-733, so there's no reason that Fritz shouldn't have been able to do the same
unless it got confused by either incomplete or faulty EGDBs, IMO.

jm



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