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Subject: Same exact thing has happened to me :(

Author: Charles Unruh

Date: 16:48:51 02/07/00

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System-
P166mmx
32 megs of ram
6 gig hard drive
Windows 95
Fritz 6a

In analyses mode it gets to around move 26 and then freezes, get fritz has
performed an illegal operation, and when i hit close, fritz closes, but the
illegal function box wont even go away, i have to log out of windows :(.

On February 07, 2000 at 16:42:32, Anatoli wrote:

>Dear Chessfriends !
>
>Dear Frideric !
>
>I think I found an unpleasant bug in the new Fritz-6 engine. And you are the
>only one representative of ChessBase who can quickly react and give an answer.
>Plus you know people who develop Fritz and you can get in touch with them about
>it. And the problem is next.
>One of my favorite function is Analyze games. Normally I give Fritz 90
>sec. per move and it analyze 2 or 3 my games overnight. It is a good fun and I
>use it mostly to find mistakes in my games over the board.
>It can't find deep position solutions but very often it shows me some good
>tactical solutions which I missed. Before I tried Fritz 5 and 5.32, Hiarcs 7.32,
>Junior-5 and Nimzo-99 engines for such analyzes and everything worked OK.
>A couple of days ago I won an interesting e-mail game against a strong German
>master. The game was so incredible that I decided to send it to the Chess
>Informant.
>But before that I wanted to check some tactics with Fritz and other engines.
>Here you can find this game. Hiarcs 7.32 and Fritz 5.32 analyze this game with
>120 sec. per move without any problems as normally. It took each of them
>about 4 hours for the job. But of course they didn't see any of my ideas during
>the game and their help was very small. I have ordered Junior-6 upgrade from
>ChessBase and it will arrive since day to day, so I'll try it later. Then I
>wanted to analyze this game with my favorite Fritz-6a engine. In the morning I
>switched the monitor on and I found that Fritz crushed and the screen was frozen
>in the middle of the game and there was such information : The program has
>performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. In Details I read that
>Fritz6 caused an invalid fault an module Fritz6. EXE at 014f:0057e859.
>Of course I was a bit upset and wanted to repeat the analyze. But there was
>another problem - when I wanted to close Fritz6 that sign "The program has
>perform illegal operation.." didn't disappear. I could press Close button
>hundreds of time with the same result. So, I restarted the Windows but I
>couldn't do it also ! The only way was to press Reset button and to run Scan
>and so on.
>I thought it was just a coincident and I repeated analyses once more. But there
>was the same result ! And what is the most interesting Fritz is frozen on
>the same move 28...c2 and doesn't go any further ! This night I repeated the
>analyses for the third time, but once more the screen was frozen at the same
>28...c2 move.
>Dear Frideric ! Could you please solve this puzzle ? Of course I sent this
>problem to ChessBase but there was not enough space to report everything
>including the game.
>I hope you are OK. I wish some more health !
>
>[Event "CLO-2000.01"]
>[Site "IECC"]
>[Date "1999.11.23"]
>[Round "1"]
>[White "Bergman Michael, "]
>[Black "Sirota, Anatoli"]
>[Result "0-1"]
>
>1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Ba5 6.b4 cxd4
>7.Qg4 Ne7 8.bxa5 dxc3 9.Qxg7 Rg8 10.Qxh7 Nbc6 11.Nf3 Qc7
>12.Bf4 Bd7 13.a6 O-O-O 14.axb7+ Kb8 15.Qd3 d4 16.Rb1 Rg4
>17.Bg3 Nf5 18.Be2 Na5 19.O-O Bc6 20.Rb4 Bd5 21.Rfb1 Be4
>22.Qd1 Nc6 23.Rb5 d3 24.cxd3 Ncd4 25.Ne1 Rxg3 26.hxg3 Nxb5
>27.Rxb5 Nd4 28.Rb4 c2 29.Nxc2 Nxe2+ 30.Qxe2 Bxd3
>31.Qg4 Qxc2 32.Qh4 Qc7 33.Kh2 a5 34.Rb2 Rd5 35.Qh8+ Qd8
>36.Qg7 Rd7 37.Qg4 Ba6 38.Qh4 Bxb7 39.Rb5 Qc7 40.a4 Ka7
>41.Qh6 Qc3 42.Qf8 f5 0-1
>
>Maybe somebody else can analize this game on your computer and we'll see if it
>happen too.
>
>With my best wishes
>
>
>Anatoli Sirota
>sirota@chessnet.com.au
>
>With best wishes



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