Author: Melvin S. Schwartz
Date: 17:37:36 05/30/99
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On May 30, 1999 at 20:21:49, Paulo Soares wrote: >On May 30, 1999 at 19:31:02, Anatoli wrote: > >>Hi ! >>Yeasterday I got in an interesting situation when I wanted to show Fritz 5.32 in >>action. One of my friends proposed a very easy task to solve. I said that Fritz >>5.32 played at IG level and could solve most of the problems in seconds. But >>then we gave Fritz 5.32 a well known task by P.Morphy, which we knew >>since our childhood. >>Here it is : >>W. Kc8, Ra1, b6 >>B. Ka8, Bb8, a7,b7 >>Checkmate in 2. 1.Ra6 ba 2.b7X 1.Ra6.B--- 2.Rxa7X >>Everybody knows this chess puzzle. I set up this position and smiled quite >>loudly. Then I press the Watch button on the main tool bar and proposed >>Fritz to Play. To my big confuse Fritz 5.32 gave 1.Kd7 !!!??? It didn't find >>1.Ra6. Why ? I repeated this task many times but Fritz proposed only 1.Kd7. >>Then I gave this position to all available engines and they solved it in 1 >>sec.So, can anybody try this super difficult position on your computer ? Fritz >>5.32 can checkmate now with a knight and a bishop. But will it be able to find >>athis checkmate in 2 ? >>Thanks >>Anatoli > >It places in "Infinite Analyses", with two or more variants, >Fritz5.32 will find Ra6 immediately. Stranger, it's not the >first time that I see a bug to be decided using the mode >"Infinite Analyses" with more than one variant. > >Paulo Soares, from Brazil Hi Paulo If I understand you correctly, you are saying the problem was Anatoli had it set up at the infinite level? I tried it on my Fritz 5.32 and got the same result. The problem with using set up on Fritz is that the screen doesn't show what level you're in. I always have it set for 40/2, so does this mean Fritz automatically goes to the Infinite level when in set up, or was it in the 40/2 mode? Mel
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