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Subject: Re: a bug in the cd rom of fritz5

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 14:27:38 11/06/98

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On November 05, 1998 at 07:33:48, James T. Walker wrote:

>On November 05, 1998 at 00:12:23, blass uri wrote:
>
>>
>>On November 05, 1998 at 00:04:11, Komputer Korner wrote:
>>
>>>On November 04, 1998 at 23:48:32, blass uri wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>On November 04, 1998 at 20:07:52, James T. Walker wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hello again Uri,
>>>>>I believe the bug is not in the CD ROM of Fritz 5.  Fritz 5 does not make this
>>>>>move when operating under the Fritz GUI.  It only makes this move under the
>>>>>Junior 5 Program.  There must be something wrong with the implemention of Fritz5
>>>>>under the Junior5 32 bit GUI.
>>>>>When running Fritz alone it plays 54... Kh5  55 Rh8+, Kg6  56 Rg8+, Kh5.
>>>>>Jim Walker
>>>>
>>>>When fritz5 is using the cd rom it has an opinion about every move and it has an
>>>>opinion of draw about losing moves of the side with KRP.
>>>>
>>>>I found that it is not a problem of the 32 bit version.
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>So who is right here. Does it give the rook away for nothing or not? And if it
>>>does, why wouldn't it do it in the other 3 endgames on the CDROM?
>>
>>I know that in my computer it does give the rook away for nothing and it has no
>>problem of evaluating in other endgames on the CDROM like KQvs KR.
>>
>>Uri

One final note.  Junior 5 makes the same give-away move when playing the black
side using the Fritz CD ROM !  Again though, Fritz does not make that move when
playing in it's own 16 bit GUI.  There must be something wrong with the Junior5
GUI.



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