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Subject: Re: a bug in Fritz/Junior?

Author: blass uri

Date: 01:57:49 12/23/98

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On December 23, 1998 at 04:44:19, Ralph E. Carter wrote:

>On December 23, 1998 at 04:32:47, blass uri wrote:
>
>>
>>On December 23, 1998 at 04:20:25, Ralph E. Carter wrote:
>>
>>>On December 23, 1998 at 04:13:56, blass uri wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>On December 23, 1998 at 03:17:29, Ralph E. Carter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Do you know that engines under Fritz and Junior have their hashtables cleared
>>>>>before every move? And that this has a disproportionate effect on those engines
>>>>>that intelligently save information between moves, like hiarcs and crafty?
>>>>>
>>>>>If nobody cares about questions such as these, I am leaving.
>>>>
>>>>I do not know but if it is the case then it is a bug in Fritz/Junior.
>>>>
>>>>It has nothing to do with CM6000 so I do not understand the subject
>>>>bad bug in CM6000...
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>What do you mean "it is a bug in Fritz/Junior"?
>>>Just because the results of automated tournaments in Fritz will not be reliable,
>>>is this a bug?
>>
>>Yes, if you are right that the hash tables are cleared before every move  then
>>it is a bug and I understand if some people will not buy Fritz/Junior because of
>>this bug.
>>
>>I do not think that chessbase earns from this bug because buyers of programs
>>like hiarcs may prefer to buy the program not from chessbase.
>>
>>Uri
>
>I am a hiarcs fan.
>I bought the hiarcs6.eng for Junior 5.
>THEN I found out that it is seriously weakened under this interface.
>This happened in the real world.
>
>In reply, the programmer of Junior said that such issues are, I quote
>"invented", and are not related to anything that happens, quote, "in the real
>world".

I think that the programmer of Junior is not responsible for it.
He is responsiblr only for the engine Junior5 and not for something that is a
problem of all Fritz engines.
>
>Chessbase is not harmed by this because NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT IT.

Now some people know.
If there is a bug then chessbase can understand that people will discover it in
the future so they have something to lose in the future dfrom bugs.

Uri



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