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Subject: Fritz 6a wins Summer Cup.. To: Uri & Shep

Author: James Thompson

Date: 08:54:29 08/02/00

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Shep & Uri (and any others)

Since your discussion has mentioned books, please answer a novice's question
regarding books.  From your discussion I gather the opening book is critical to
the quality of game an engine plays.  Is the Fritz powerbook a better opening
book than general?  Should I consider Chessbase's EOC a better value?

Finally, does the game database have any effect on the quality of the game
played by a particular.  For instance, I have both CB7 and Fritz6.  Would it
matter to Fritz which game database it used?  If the opening book determines the
opening strategy and since Fritz' internal calculations determines subsequent
play after "out of book" what role does the game database play?  Thanks for any
advice

James



On August 02, 2000 at 08:09:44, Shep wrote:

>On August 02, 2000 at 03:35:03, Terry Ripple wrote:
>
>>  Why is it that you didn't allow Fritz to play with it's own book which is
>>supposed to be very good? Please explain!
>
>Which book are you referring to? I didn't consider General.ctg to be that good
>in general opinion, that's why I didn't use it. And I don't own any of the
>Powerbook CDs.
>Nimzo's and Junior's books are excellent, so I often let programs like Fritz,
>Crafty or even Hiarcs use those.
>
>I must also correct my statement regarding Fritz' book use, it should have read
>
> "Fritz used the Junior book against Nimzo/CSTal and the Nimzo book against
>Junior"
>
>(with the idea that "no book should play against itself" for more variety).
>
>---
>Shep



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