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Subject: Re: All Fritz's versions are wrong in the number of moves to mate

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 16:04:51 03/07/99

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On March 07, 1999 at 18:26:33, James T. Walker wrote:

>On March 07, 1999 at 16:27:37, blass uri wrote:
>
>>I found that all Fritz's versions are often wrong in the number of moves when
>>they see mate.
>>
>>I think that not telling the number of moves for mate is better than displaying
>>wrong information.
>>
>>Fritz does not know to count distance to mate and if chessbase cannot fix it or
>>prefer not to fix it then they should give evaluation of # without a number
>>after the #
>>
>>Uri
>Hello Uri,
>Yes and Nimzo 99a does the same thing.  I have mentioned this and several other
>problems to Chessbase but to no avail.  I'm not sure they pass these problems
>along to the programmers since I beleive that the programmers would want to fix
>these problems if they are aware of them.
>Jim Walker

By the way Uri,  why do you only mention Fritz when Junior also has this
problem?
Jim



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