diff --git a/program/source/structures/concrete/board.c b/program/source/structures/concrete/board.c
index 135bd8b..790b64f 100644
--- a/program/source/structures/concrete/board.c
+++ b/program/source/structures/concrete/board.c
@@ -103,10 +103,9 @@ KGrid _init_grid(FILE * kakuro_file) {
     KGrid g = { 0 };
     assert(fread(&(g.size[ROW]), sizeof(ksize_t), 1, kakuro_file));
     assert(fread(&(g.size[COLUMN]), sizeof(ksize_t), 1, kakuro_file));
-    if (ferror(kakuro_file)) {
-        perror("Error during fread");
-    }
 
+    assert(g.size[ROW] && "ROW COUNT IS ZERO");
+    assert(g.size[COLUMN] && "COLUMN COUNT IS ZERO");
     g.count = g.size[ROW] * g.size[COLUMN];
 
     assert((g.grids[ROW]    = malloc(g.size[ROW] * sizeof(lookup_t*))) && "ALLOCATION TO ROW ARRAY FAILED");