Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 14:52:34 12/20/99
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Below I copy a post of Eric Hallsworth on RGCC. I verified the bug he reports and I can confirm it. This means that all engine-engine games we played in Fritz 6 are worthless. Until a patch is made available, it is better to stick to F532, H732, J5 or N732. Most enterteining. :((( Enrique _____________________ Be careful when you LOAD a NEW engine under Fritz6 or Junior6... they have a bad habit of taking on the engine parameters which applied to the program previously loaded! For example, if you have Fritz6 loaded (default is selectivity 2) and you load Hiarcs732, you will find Hiarcs takes on the selectivity of 2 even though its own default is 5! If you correct Hiarcs to selectivity 5 and then later change back to Fritz6, surprise... Fritz6 loads with selectivity=5 instead of selectivity=2. So, every time you change an engine under Junior6 or Fritz6, make sure you click on ENGINE PARAMETERS and click on DEFAULT to make sure you get the correct settings for that particular engine. This would not only be important for normal play and analysis, but also if you are playing an ENGINE-ENGINE match, or an ENGINE tournament. If you play a match with Fritz6 on its correct selectivity 2 against Hiarcs732 'lumbered' with Fritz6's selectivity 2, you can guess who'll win, etc. etc! And you'll have wasted a lot of computer time! -- With best wishes from Eric Hallsworth The Red House, 46 High Street, Wilburton, Cambs CB6 3RA, England Editor of 'Selective Search', Britain's only Computer Chess Magazine, est.1985 Visit: http://www.elhchess.demon.co.uk/ ________________
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