Author: David Dahlem
Date: 08:25:09 07/27/04
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On July 27, 2004 at 11:10:18, chandler yergin wrote: >There appears to be a serious flaw in the Fritz Program in regard to >positional understanding of some simple endgame positions. > >Example: > > > >[D] 8/7p/4k3/1K4b1/P7/3p3P/8/4B3 w - - 0 1 > >Analysis by Fritz 8: > >1. -+ (-2.06): 58.a5 d2 59.Bxd2 Bxd2 60.a6 Be3 61.Kc6 Kf5 62.Kb7 Kf4 63.h4 h5 >64.Kc6 Kg3 65.Kc7 Bf2 66.Kb8 Kxh4 >2. -+ (-2.06): 58.Kc4 d2 59.Bxd2 Bxd2 60.a5 Ke5 61.Kd3 > > >Hiarchs & Crafty immediately spot it, and show the correct move. > >Congratulations to them! > >BTW.. How does your Engine do? >Good Test Position. > >The above position is from a Correspondence game where both players >must have used Fritz, and followed the Eval. >Black won. > >Both are strong players, who shall remain anonymous, so as not to embarrass >them. >Had they not used Program help, they should have easily seen the correct >Drawing method. >CY [D]8/7p/4k3/1K4b1/P7/3p3P/8/4B3 w - - 0 1 TheKing 3.33 3 00:00 -0.79 1.a5 d2 2.Bxd2 Bxd2 3.a6 4 00:00 -0.95 1.a5 d2 2.Bxd2 Bxd2 3.a6 Kd5 5 00:00 -1.00 1.a5 d2 2.Bxd2 Bxd2 3.a6 Be3 4.h4 6 00:00 -1.01 1.a5 d2 2.Bxd2 Bxd2 3.Kb6 Be3+ 4.Kb7 Kd5 5.a6 7 00:00 -0.57 1.a5 d2 2.Bxd2 Bxd2 3.a6 Be3 4.Kc6 Ke5 5.Kb7 8 00:00 -0.70 1.a5 d2 2.Bxd2 Bxd2 3.a6 Be3 4.Kc6 h5 5.Kb7 Kd5 9 00:01 -0.79 1.a5 Kd7 2.a6 Kc8 3.Kc6 Kb8 4.Bg3+ Ka7 5.Kb5 Be3 10 00:02 -1.28 1.a5 Kd7 2.a6 Kc8 3.Kc4 d2 4.Bxd2 Bxd2 5.Kd3 Bg5 6.Kd4 Kb8 10 00:03 -0.14 1.Kc4 d2 2.Bxd2 Bxd2 3.Kd3 Bb4 4.Ke4 Bc5 5.Kf3 Be7 6.Kg2 Bf8 11 00:03 -0.14 1.Kc4 d2 2.Bxd2 Bxd2 3.Kd3 Bb4 4.Ke4 Bc5 5.Kf3 Be7 6.Kg2 Bf8 12 00:05 -0.14 1.Kc4 d2 2.Bxd2 Bxd2 3.Kd3 Bb4 4.Ke4 Bc5 5.Kf3 Be7 6.Kg2 Bf8 13 00:09 -0.14 1.Kc4 d2 2.Bxd2 Bxd2 3.Kd3 Bb4 4.Ke4 Bc5 5.Kf3 Be7 6.Kg2 Bf8 14 00:17 -0.14 1.Kc4 d2 2.Bxd2 Bxd2 3.Kd3 Bb4 4.Ke4 Bc5 5.Kf3 Be7 6.Kg2 Bf8 15 00:31 -0.14 1.Kc4 d2 2.Bxd2 Bxd2 3.Kd3 Bb4 4.Ke4 Bc5 5.Kf3 Be7 6.Kg2 Bf8 16 01:03 -0.14 1.Kc4 d2 2.Bxd2 Bxd2 3.Kd3 Bb4 4.Ke4 Bc5 5.Kf3 Be7 6.Kg2 Bf8 17 02:11 -0.14 1.Kc4 d2 2.Bxd2 Bxd2 3.Kd3 Bb4 4.Ke4 Bc5 5.Kf3 Be7 6.Kg2 Bf8 Dave
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