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Subject: Re: Fritz endgame CD

Author: blass uri

Date: 03:53:22 04/01/99

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On April 01, 1999 at 06:24:43, Sylvain Renard wrote:

>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?

It does not have to assume it is a draw.
It is only a stupid choice of the programmers of Fritz and I do not understand
the reason that they do not fix it.

It can use the engine to evaluate the ? positions and use the evaluation of the
engine as the score.

Uri





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