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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