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Subject: Re: Maybe Fritz 9 Blunder had to do with Hardware

Author: Geo Disher

Date: 07:03:53 11/22/05

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On November 22, 2005 at 08:08:47, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 22, 2005 at 06:27:51, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On November 22, 2005 at 06:25:35, Ted Summers wrote:
>>
>>>I read here on this forum that other users of Fritz 9 did not have this blunder.
>>>So I gave my copy of Fritz 9 a shot at the game to annotate. My Fritz 9 not only
>>>see's 39. ...Bc2 as a big mistake, but it states that Qxg3 was winning for
>>>black.
>>>
>>>Now I wonder if this blunder was not more hardware related. My home system is a
>>>PIV 3Ghz with 1.5 Gig of ram. Which is much strong than the laptop they used. Or
>>>was it a bug it the Fritz "Bilbao" version.
>>
>>A 2.0Ghz Centrino laptop runs much *faster* than a 3.0Ghz P4.
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>This is just very deep.  It would take some kind of hardware to get many
>programs to see this in reasonable time.  One of "those positions"...


I think it may be a bug.  My Fritz 9 never even showed Bc2 in the top 3 move
choices.



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