Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:16:50 11/24/03
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On November 24, 2003 at 11:51:45, William Penn wrote: >On November 24, 2003 at 05:24:17, Brian Katz wrote: > >>It appears that the latest Fritz 8 upgrade from the Playchess server has >>corrected version 8.0.0.23 in that the "NOT" capturing on e4 problem seems to >>have been corrected. In help menu>About Fritz the date will change to(Nov 13 >>2003). Just the other day in the following diagram before the recent upgrade, >>version 8.0.0.23 would not capture on e4, which is clearly the best move. Now >>after the recent upgrade fritz 8.0.0.23 takes on e4 immediately. >>[D]rnbqkb1r/pp1ppppp/2p2n2/8/2B1P3/P4N2/1PPP1PPP/RNBQK2R b >>Has anyone else found this to be true as well? >>Brian Katz > >I don't know if this is relevant to your discussion of the e4 capture bug in >Fritz 8.0.0.23, but I notice that this is not a possible situation in a real >chess game. The position can be achieved via the following sequence of moves, >but then it's White's turn to move (not Black's): 1.e4 c6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Ng8 >4.a3 Nf6. To create the situation which you pose with black to move, White would >somehow have to lose a tempo, but I believe that's impossible (unless I'm >overlooking something obvious). >WP It is very simple for white to lose a tempo [Event "Edited game"] [Site "URI-PC"] [Date "2003.11.24"] [Round "-"] [White "-"] [Black "-"] [Result "*"] 1. e3 c6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Ng8 4. e4 Nf6 5. a3 * Uri
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