Author: Y A Tham
Date: 14:24:11 12/10/99
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On December 10, 1999 at 13:14:31, m.d.hurd wrote: >On December 10, 1999 at 12:27:23, Martin Grabriel wrote: > >>Fritz6's best new feature to me is the Kibitzer feature! On the whole, it is >>worth the money. Below is a list which I would not call bugs, but simply some >>observations: >> >>1) The installation doesn't put the engine folder and the other folders under >>the Fritz6 folder, but at the same level to the Fritz6 folder. This can be >>confusing first time round. >>2) When loading the accompanying Crafty engine (16.18), the dialogue box which >>says "initializing tablebases" shows the blue header as Crafty 16.15 although >>the engine is in fact 16.18. >>3) Save layout doesn't really save the layout you want. The presence of the >>Kibitzer panel is not saved. >>4) The help file option is inappropriately located at the "Design" tab (Tools >>--> options --> Design). Also, The "win95" help format is missing (only the >>"html" help format is present). >>5) If you only load the Crafty engine, and go to "help" --> "about Fritz6" , it >>shows "Engine:Robert Hyatt". Although we know it is referring to Crafty, the >>headings in blue reads "About Frtiz6" and lower down it lists the de facto Fritz >>programmers after Hyatt's name. (The same observation for the other accompanying >>engines). >>6) Took me quite awhile to find out that to get the "Display Arrows Below >>Board", I must do a right mouse click below the board and then that the option >>is availabe. Prior to that, I tried searching for "arrows" in the html help >>index but can't find that in the index search. >>7) The use of small icons is not consistent for items in the dropdown lists, >>i.e. some selections have accompanying icons, some don't. >>8) The back CD cover gives a non existent url (www.fritz6.com). > >Also: > >9)When running fritzmark it loads fritz5 but does not return you to the engine >you were using previously. > >10) Getting rid of the the logo by unchecking the box in Tools,Options,Logo in >Clock does not work. > >11)ocassionaly after an engine tournament you cannot load the played games, >instead you need to exit the program then reload fritz 6 then it all works as >normal. > >mike > >mike@hurd.junglelink.co.uk I played some eng-eng games between Fritz6 and Hiarcs7.32. It seemed to me that Hiarcs was using less time on its moves than it took in the H7.32 gui. Hiarcs played some moves in the middle game using 0sec which it never did in its own gui. Art
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