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Subject: Re: Crafty 18.12 v Fritz 7a Fritz's wacky openings again.

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 23:36:10 12/19/01

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On December 19, 2001 at 22:22:41, Gordon Rattray wrote:

>On December 19, 2001 at 21:06:12, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>On December 19, 2001 at 18:44:01, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>>
>>>On December 19, 2001 at 18:25:49, Louis Fagliano wrote:
>>>
>>>>Just what is with the fritz7 opening book??  In game three doesn't 1. e4 e5 2.
>>>>Nf3 f6? lose by force to 3. Nxe5! right?
>>>>
>>>>And in game four there's 1. d4 d5 2. f3?!
>>>>
>>>>But the main thing is the former, namely Damaino's Defense, named after him not
>>>>because he ever played it in a serious game but because he published a treatise
>>>>showing that it loses by force.  And this was centuries ago!
>>>>
>>>>Some it seriously wrong with Fritz's new opening book, no doubt about it.
>>>
>>>It is strange that it keeps playing such moves.
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>Jonas
>>
>>
>>Something is not right!  First of all this move 2...f6 is Blue and has a
>
>Now I see the difference!!!
>
>In my other reply to this thread, I was using the Junior 6 interface to look at
>the book moves and I saw GREEN moves (e.g. for "f6").
>
>I've now tried again using the Fritz 7 interface and I see them as BLUE moves
>("f6").  But it's the same book file ("Fritz7.ctg") in both cases.  The Deep
>Junior 7 interface also shows them as blue.
>
>Maybe some people are not using the Fritz 7 interface (because of other bugs)
>and if the Fritz 7 interface is not used, book problems can result?!
>
>For those seeing book problems with Fritz 7, what interface are you using?

I was using the young talents GUI since it is the only GUI (along with Deep
Junior 6 and Junior 6 GUI) that produces a bugfree output when publishing live.

Regards
Jonas



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