Author: James T. Walker
Date: 12:16:36 02/01/99
To KK, I like your review of Fritz 5.32. You obviously spent a lot of time and effort in wringing out this program. I have a few comments. The "move bug" in Crafty 16.3 appears to be fixed but this version of Crafty is a dud. It plays very badly - much worse than Crafty 16.2. I don't understand what you mean about Fritz thinks it lost when you interrupt an auto232 game. Every time I do this a dialog box comes up asking for the results(1-0,0-1,.5-.5, line). The fixed depth does work fine. Also the time control works fine also (3 sec do not change to 5). The problem since the last SP1 is that the boxes are reversed ! Default is "Fixed time 3" and "Fixed depth 5"(or other way around). The problem is the "5" goes with the time and the "3" goes with the depth. For example for Fixed depth of 6, click the "Fixed depth" button and set the "Fixed time" box to 6. I also do not understand why you would want to "Gauge" the Elo start list before the list is calculated. Since you don't know what the error of the list is untill it is created how do you propose to calibrate it first. For instance I run the "create ELO start list" and see what rating Junior 5.0 ends up with. Then I gauge the list so Junior 5.0 has the same rating as the SSDF. This makes all other programs calibrated to Junior 5.0's rating on the SSDF. I have what may be a unique problem in that the bar graph on my AMD K6-2 sometimes has the colors backwards. I've never seen the PII do this. That is when Fritz is winning the bars should be red and when opponent is winning the bar should be green. Sometimes the K6-2 has the colors backwards but the bars are correct. That is the bars are above the line when white is winning and below the line when black is winning but with the wrong colors. Not on the PII though. You did not mention my pet peeve though. There is no way to adjourn a game and resume it later ! Not using auto232 and not when just playing a game against Fritz. As always I appreciate your reviews. Regards, Jim Walker
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