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Subject: Re: Same exact thing has happened to me :(

Author: Anatoli

Date: 00:17:01 02/08/00

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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



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