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Subject: Re: Fritz analysis fails; does your software work?

Author: Laurence Chen

Date: 16:39:42 07/09/99

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That some other guy was Tigran Petrosian.... Show some respect, he was also a
World Champion....
Also post the EPD position....
Laurence

On July 09, 1999 at 18:21:07, Mark Ryan wrote:

>Fritz 5.16 Autoanalysis and Blundercheck fail to detect a bad move in a famous
>position (details below).  Using backward analysis, starting by evaluating the
>final game position and then working back through the preceding moves, Fritz
>does not remember its evaluations from move to move; it analyzes each move
>without reference to its evaluation of the following move.  Therefore:
>
>1.  What is the point of backward analysis?  It seems to be no different from
>on-the-spot position analysis.
>
>2.  Are there any programs that use backward analysis "correctly"?  That is, do
>any programs evaluate the final position first, then analyze the preceding moves
>using the knowledge that they have gained?
>
>Example:  World Championship 1972, Game One, in which the white pieces were
>handled by the brilliant World Champion Boris Spassky, and the black pieces were
>handled by some other guy.  Fritz correctly evaluates White as being ahead all
>the way back from the final move to move 30, at which point it sees that black's
>bishop is doomed.  However, when Fritz moves back to move 29, it forgets this
>knowledge, and it does not see that the bishop is trapped; so it incorrectly
>evaluates the position.



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