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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