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Subject: Re: Serious Fruit problem under Fritz GUI: is this fixed or not?

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 04:46:49 12/19/05

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On December 19, 2005 at 07:44:11, Jouni Uski wrote:

>From fruit site:
>
>"There is a bug in the new Fritz9-GUI and in the latest Update of Fritz8-GUI
>(namely an update from September 9th 2005) which leads to the effect that Fruit
>plays with history pruning disabled. That leads to a huge strength drop as some
>users reported. The bug happens if you open the Engine Properties windows and
>close it with "OK". After that Fritz always sends history pruning false to the
>engine regardless which option you choose. Even clicking on "Defaults" has no
>effect.
>
>Chessbase has confirmed that bug and will fix it (hopefully soon) so far I
>suggest either to use the Fritz 8- GUI from Januar 2005 or to never touch the
>UCI-Parameters (it appears Fruit is working correctly in case you just load it
>without changing the UCI-Options)."
>
>Why should there be problem just with Fruit? Other engines have a lot more UCI
>parameters - are they working correct?

No it's not just a problem with Fruit alone. The properties dialogue is
completely broken and affects all UCI-Engines (but randomly with unknown
consequences),

>
>(My Fritz9 gui is dated 11.10.2005)
>
>Jouni

Im not aware of a GUI-Update 11.10.2005 but with an update after the 9th
september the problem should be fixed.

Joachim



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