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Subject: Re: New Shredder Classic question

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 21:20:50 04/26/04

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On April 23, 2004 at 23:57:40, Chessfun wrote:

>On April 23, 2004 at 21:22:21, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>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
>
>There is no Classic GUI that came with Shredder 8, it only came with the
>standard CB gui. Unless you mean the recently released Shredder Classic?
>
>Sarah.

You are right as usual.  It is the Classic that came with Shredder 7 that the
patch does not fix.  It fixed the Classic that came with Shredder 6 OK.
Jim



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