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Subject: Re: Latest Fritz8 (Nov 13 2003) seems to correct 8.0.0.23 e4 capturing prob

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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