Author: Harald Faber
Date: 03:51:07 05/15/02
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On May 15, 2002 at 03:42:26, Vine Smith wrote: >On May 14, 2002 at 18:21:48, Harald Faber wrote: > >>I have no idea where you got all those crappy lines from (except the Belgrade), >>but so far neither my results nor the games I have seen on my own make me think >>that the book is crap. >> >>www.harald-faber.de > >Well, I'm not going to dredge through the archives for these games with the >lines you can't find in the book, because it would serve no purpose. You would >conclude that they were either false, or not played with the default book >anyway. (I can recall the 4...Qc7 was posted by Chris Taylor, who was testing >Hiarcs versus Genius 3(!), and it was the second game he had conducted.) >But I think I might have an idea -- rather looking in the Hiarcs 8 book, just >try playing 1.e4 e6 2.Qe2 against it in a game. I think when you look at the >book with the Chessbase GUI, it understands the book format, but when Hiarcs >looks at the book during the game, it doesn't see the same thing. This would >explain everything -- it's not the book that's faulty, but the conversion from >the original DOS format (I gathered that this conversion had been done from a >post of yours further up). In another post, I read that Hiarcs 7.32 had much the >same problem in the first few months after its release due to an incorrect >conversion of its book into Chessbase format. If you can confirm this, someone >should bring this to Chessbase's attention. > >Regards, >Vine Smith I looked at the lines within Hiarcs 8 GUI, no ChessBase 8. Usually in the opening book tab, the last column on the right shows the real move playing probability (considering the book learning values), and the values are as I have written above. But I will check whether Hiarcs also plays the moves in a game and will tell you in several hours (in about 6hrs), when I'll be at home. (If noone does this test in the meantime)
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