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Subject: Re: Deep Shredder 9 closes suddenly in endgames.... ?

Author: William Penn

Date: 06:56:51 03/04/05

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On March 04, 2005 at 04:23:01, Eric Somao wrote:

>I ve noticed my Deep Shredder 9 program always closes suddenly without reason
>and without error message in endgames, when the TBS 5men are working hard, in
>general when it's an endgame with rooks and pawns...
>
>
>Does someone else meet the same problem?
>
>Thx !
>
>Eric

I don't have Deep Shredder 9. Perhaps it has a bug in that situation, I don't
know. But another possibility is that you could have a bad installation or a
system problem. So first, I would redownload/reinstall the software. Also,
Windows can develop faults over time and only a clean fresh reinstall of the op
system can determine whether that's the cause. I'm afraid SP2 introduced some
problems in many systems running Windows XP so certain software won't work
correctly. I've had that experience.

And I don't know if this is relevant, but will mention it...

After long use of Shredder 8, I became convinced that it had some kind of
special weakness in endgames involving active rook play and pawns. It just
couldn't find the right move. I think it had something to do with pawn levers
and inability to see how to open a semi-closed position to advantage. I often
had to resort to Fritz in such cases, which usually confirmed my suspicions.
WP



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