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Subject: Re: Engine Tournament Problems in CB GUI (Fritz, Junior)

Author: Frank Quisinsky

Date: 14:38:51 08/15/01

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On August 15, 2001 at 15:58:40, Chessfun wrote:

>On August 15, 2001 at 11:38:11, James H Swinney wrote:
>
>>I keep having problems with touraments in this way.
>>I start a tornament, play ## games, exit the the game,
>>by hitting stop and then exit.
>>when I come back to get the tournament going again
>>Load-Tournmanet, then hit run/continue, either it starts
>>the whole tournament over again from game #1 or it says
>>"Tournament Complete". Or if I try looking at the cross-
>>table before I try continuing It will sometimes scream
>>"No games in database" I'm not changing anything AT ALL
>>as far as any settings or moving any files around.
>>This doesn't happen everytime, just maybe 50% of the time.
>>It's almost as if I can never exit the game once I start a
>>tourney until it is complete or I'll end up with this mess.
>>Has anyone else ran into this problem??
>>JS
>
>
>This happens in both round robin and swiss tournaments.
>Sometimes happens with a crash where the games are in the database
>but the tourney info is lost.
>
>What I do is load tournament then check the crosstable.
>If it's blank then I cancel.
>
>Open the *.trn (*.= Tourney name normally found in \chessbase\compbase)
>with notepad and make sure the line complete=1. I check the database of the
>games in Fritz and put in the FirstGame=# and LastGame=#.
>I then save the *.trn. Example at bottom.
>
>Then reload the tournament, now click on crosstable, you should see the full
>crosstable. Then click run\continue.
>
>[General]
>Title=New
>Created=2
>Complete=1
>FirstGame=121
>LastGame=180
>Cycles=10
>
>Sarah.

Hi Sarah,

exactly :-))

Think that a lot of people have fun with the swiss tournament option.
But more fun if the programmers from Chess-Base check this great option.

Maybe after the WM and befor Fritz7 is on the market available :-))

Best
Frank



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