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

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 23:43:51 12/19/01

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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
>question mark beside it.  It also has a 0% probability of being played.  I now
>have over 1000 games by Fritz 7a in my database and it has _n_e_v_e_r_ played
>this move!  It should only be played if you have somehow changed the book
>settings for this move.
>Jim

It appears that there is some trouble running Fritz7.ctg under other GUI's and
this would account for this strange behaviour, i did change the settings on the
Kure book.

Regards
Jonas



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