Author: Mike Hood
Date: 20:47:09 02/05/04
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On February 05, 2004 at 22:13:49, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:
>On February 05, 2004 at 22:12:56, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:
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>>Fritz uses pawn lever in the way Kmock
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>Kmoch. Of all the typos...
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>J.
I have a sort of love-hate relationship with Chessbase; the software is
brilliant, and I wouldn't want to do without it, but the documentation and
online help files are so awful that I have to laugh. For instance, in the
description of the engine window the help file says:
An arrow pointing up or down denotes a "fail high" or
"fail low", which simply means that the computer has
discovered something good or bad in the position but
doesn't yet know what it is.
Wow! Now, does anyone who hasn't involved himself with chess programming have
the slightest idea what fail highs and fail lows are? That's 0.01% of Fritz's
users at the most. And the following explanation of what these expressions mean
confuses more than it helps. I wonder what Dr. Hyatt would say if one of his
students wrote a program description like this in his course work.
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