Author: Anatoli
Date: 00:17:01 02/08/00
Go up one level in this thread
Charles ! Thanks for your help !!! Best wishes Anatoli On February 07, 2000 at 19:48:51, Charles Unruh wrote: >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
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.