Author: Sylvain Renard
Date: 03:24:43 04/01/99
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On March 31, 1999 at 18:01:28, James T. Walker wrote:
>Hello again Sylvain,
>Obviously you know more about these things than I do. As I said in an earlier
>post I'm not a programmer or even a good chess player. But I still keep coming
>back to the CD ROM as the problem. I don't know if Fritz uses Ken Thompsons
>database or what. Fritz does not do a normal "search" on this move. Fritz
>seems to read the CD ROM and then make the wrong move. The info which shows up
>in the move window indicates Fritz has incorrect information about the value of
>the moves in the move list. Where do these values come from? All moves have a
>score of draw so it does not matter which one it plays. Evidently the first
>move "generated" or looked at is f8=B and it plays that move.
Hello again,
when reading the databases, if the position reached is not found, Fritz has to
assume it is a draw. What else could it do? I think they did not think
it was useful to include all the files resulting from an underpromotion.
>Fritz 5.32 with
>the Fritz 5.32 CD ROM does not play that move. It correctly has the score as
>(8) 1.f8=R. Why does Fritz play the move correctly with the new CD ROM but
>incorrectly with the old CD ROM?
?? I must have the old CD ROM because my Fritz 5.32 shows 0 as the score
after f8=R. Could you look at the files in the root directory of your CD
and tell me if the file Rr_r.g is present on your CD? Thank you.
> Fritz does not go back to a regular search
>routine untill after the f8=B move.
This is a bug on my Fritz5.32 because it has the file Rb_r.g on the CD
and does not use it when you enter a corresponding position.
Best regards,
Sylvain
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