Author: Moritz Berger
Date: 10:38:45 06/22/98
Extensive reports about the Ordix open are now available on the www.chessbase.com site. I found the following information very interesting: --- We greatly profited from the fast database access of ChessBase 7.0 in this tournament: Five minutes before the begin of the round the pairings were known. In this period of time we used the function "player dossier" to look for weaknesses or dangerously successful lines in the opponents repertoire. The Fritz book was adapted accordingly using the settings Main move and Don't play in tournament. A lot of credit for the success in Frankfurt goes to Alexander Kure from Vienna, who prepared a well adapted book for this tournament. --- So they used direct opening preparation against specific opponents and got themselves one of the best computer opening experts (Alex Kure, well known from his Nimzo opening books). Now I begin to understand the incredible performance ... I don't feel that they cheated, they just used their resources in the best possible way. Certainly there will be disagreement from the anti-Fritz camp ... Very likely the new ChessBase 7 player dossier feature will also be relevant in future human events where the participants will be consulting their notebooks between the rounds. Moritz
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