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Subject: Re: Fritz 5, Resigning & Piece Odds

Author: Quenton Fyfe

Date: 16:26:01 11/26/98

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On November 26, 1998 at 04:08:51, Jeff Anderson wrote:

>Is there any way to prevent Fritz 5 from resigning? One problem is that when
>playing a game with large piece odds, Fritz will resign just a few moves into
>the game.
>Jeff

Dont know of a way to stop it resigning in the first place - but once it has
done so, you can make it play on.  But you probably knew that.

Playing with piece odds is great fun - I tried this for the first time recently:
 Because I'm a pitifully weak player I took its Queen to start with - and beat
it.  I got more of a thrill from that than any amount of "easy" levels - OK so I
nobbled it - but it's interesting that even Fritz5 "trying its hardest" couldn't
overcome the disadvantage.  Much more satisfying than playing an easy level - an
opponent that "wasn't trying" if you see what I mean.

Anyone who hasn't tried this should give it a go (though if you can play at all,
then knight or pawn odds might be more fun for you) - it just "feels different"
to the easy levels.

Cheers

Quenton Fyfe



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