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

Author: Mark Ryan

Date: 17:36:11 07/09/99

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Okay, okay, I must remember to use a smiley :-) when saying irreverent things
like "some other guy".  Also, I must apologize that I cannot post the position
as I am at work and all  my chess stuff is at home - - obviously I should have
approached this more thoughtfully.  However, if you wish to examine the game, it
is on any serious database:  World Championship 1972, Game One, Spassky-Fischer.

RESPECTFULLY  :-)
Mark


On July 09, 1999 at 20:12:19, John Hartmann wrote:

>Umm, if it's really 1972 he's talking about, the other guy is Fischer, not
>Petrosian.
>
>But he should show some respect anyway.  Fritz is only silicon, after all...
>
>john
>
>On July 09, 1999 at 19:39:42, Laurence Chen wrote:
>
>>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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