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Subject: Re: New Shredder Classic question

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 18:22:21 04/23/04

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On April 23, 2004 at 15:54:13, F. Huber wrote:

>On April 23, 2004 at 13:42:37, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>On April 22, 2004 at 07:24:00, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:
>>
>>>On April 22, 2004 at 07:12:22, James T. Walker wrote:
>>>
>>>>It appears that you have to register the GUI and engine separately.  Can you buy
>>>>the GUI only?
>>>
>>>No.
>>>
>>>  It appears that the Endgame Oracle is fixed in this GUI.  I have
>>>>no use for the engine at this time.  I would like to have a working endgame
>>>>oracle.
>>>
>>>What was broken in the endgame oracle?
>>>
>>>Stefan
>>
>>I'm surprised you are asking this question.  It has been discussed here and
>>Chessbase/Germany has been informed.  Their reply was that the author would be
>>informed of the problem.  I have stopped reporting problems to Chessbase since
>>they don't care to fix them anyway.  I just ran it again because my memory is
>>bad.  Some endgame setups will cause a crash.  For instance I just ran KNNKP and
>>asked for the longest mates.  Here is what I got.
>>
>>SHREDDER caused an invalid page fault in
>>module <unknown> at 0000:30303030.
>>Registers:
>>EAX=00000000 CS=016f EIP=30303030 EFLGS=00010202
>>EBX=0284fe50 SS=0177 ESP=0284fd80 EBP=00000016
>>ECX=80007b78 DS=0177 ESI=005b202c FS=131f
>>EDX=00000001 ES=0177 EDI=005b2008 GS=0000
>>Bytes at CS:EIP:
>>
>>Stack dump:
>>30303030 30303030 30303030 30303030 30303030 30303030 30303030 30303030 30303030
>>30303030 30303030 302e3030 00292530 005b202c 00000001 0284fe50
>
>Hi James,
>
>never heared about the following patch?
>
>http://www.chessbase.com/support/index.asp?cat=Shredder+7
>
>Maybe this will solve your problems ... :-)
>
>Best regards,
>Franz.

Hello Franz,
Yes I have this patch.  It does not fix the problem in the Classic GUI that came
with shredder 8.  It does fix the problem in Shredder 7 Classic.  The above
error was generated with this program after the patch was already run.
Regards,
Jim



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