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Subject: Re: More bugs in Shredder9

Author: William Penn

Date: 21:19:46 05/12/05

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On May 12, 2005 at 23:15:09, Komputer Korner wrote:

>On May 12, 2005 at 22:50:29, Steve Maughan wrote:
>
>>Mr Korner
>>
>>>If you hang Shredder9 any time either by making the mistake of pressing the X
>>>button in the top right korner or else by pressing CTRL-Alt-Delete when
>>>Shredder9 is calculating, Shredder9 refuses to shut down. It does not behave
>>>like a well mannered Windows program is supposed to. In the above cases, you
>>>have to reboot the computer because Shedder9 will keep creating clones of
>>>itself to prevent it from being shut down abnormally. Another small bug I
>>>found is that it often will report a  mate in 150 when it has a winning
>>>advantage. I suppose the programmer's  sense of humour is at work here, but
>>>these bugs should be corrected.
>>
>>Which version of Shedder 9 are you using - ChessBase or UCI?  I have not had a
>>problem with the UCI version.  Maybe the Chessbase GUI is buggy and not the
>>engine - just a thought.
>>
>>As regards the mate in 150 - I think you'll find that whenever Shredder 9
>>annouces mate in 150 there will indeed be a mate announcement.  The "150" figure
>>can be interpreted as "a mate - but I'm not sure what depth".
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Steve
>
>
>do you mean the Fritz interface when you say UCI? I bought Shredder9. of course
>it uses the Fritz interface. Also the tree will produce bogus statistics on new
>moves added to the tree. Also, Retro moves also add up all the previous lines
>for the N number even though that retro move was played once only. That is
>misleading and confusing.

He probably means Shredder 9 UCI. It uses Shredder's own GUI, not the Fritz
interface.
WP



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