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

Author: Thomas Logan

Date: 15:46:36 11/22/05

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On November 22, 2005 at 10:03:53, Geo Disher wrote:

>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.

Mine did

It was top choise early on but was dropped out of the running

1791: Ponomariov - Fritz, II Man vs Machine, Bilbao 2005
6k1/5p2/pn1p4/N2p2p1/PP1Pp2q/1BrbP1QP/6K1/4R3 b - - 0 1

here it still is in the running

Analysis by Fritz 9:

1. -+ (-2.22): 39...Bc2 40.Qxh4
2. -+ (-2.50): 39...Qxg3+ 40.Kxg3 f5 41.Kh2 Kf7 42.h4 gxh4 43.Kh3 Bc4 44.Bd1 f4
45.Kxh4 Rxe3 46.Rxe3 fxe3 47.Nxc4 dxc4 48.Kg3 Nd5
3. -+ (-2.47): 39...Nc4 40.Qxh4 gxh4 41.Bxc4 dxc4 42.b5 Rc2+ 43.Kh1 c3 44.b6 Kf8
45.b7 Rb2 46.Rc1 c2 47.Kg2 Rb1 48.d5 Ke8 49.Kf2

(,  22.11.2005)




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