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Subject: Correction

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 23:46:02 12/19/01

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On December 20, 2001 at 02:43:51, Jonas Cohonas 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
>>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.

That should be: I did NOT change the settings on the Kure book (just got out of
bed :)

Regards
Jonas



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