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Subject: Re: Kill fuzzy doubles

Author: Michel Langeveld

Date: 08:25:23 09/11/00

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On September 11, 2000 at 09:18:06, Frederic Friedel wrote:

>On September 11, 2000 at 07:57:12, Sune Larsson wrote:
>
>> Careful Severi... or soon some Friend to Friedel will pop up and critize you
>> for only focusing on the negative and not the positive. And tell you that you
>> should just relax a bit and have some fun... :)
>>
>
>Mathias Feist just told me  what he has done about kill fuzzle function (inside
>joke – Fussel is German for fluff or fuzz). He has introduced about 15
>additional criteria or rules, which can be easily extended. The result of
>initial testing on Horrorbase, which had been cleaned of doubles by ChessBase
>7.0, was around 30,000 new detections. After tuning the rules the final
>production version found 62,790 doubles.
>
>So something has been done, the function has been improved. It was just that I
>didn’t know about it. So now you can relax a bit and have some fun.
>
>Sorry for being flippant in my postings.
>Stwike him, centuwion, vewwy woughly! (God, I love that line!)

This is the best news I have heard about ChessBase 8.0. Can you ask if Mathias
Feist is interrested if I make a test-database with a lot of doubles. So he can
check the kill doubles function...

Michel



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