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Subject: Re: Fritz in Frankfurt (opening book)

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 16:23:53 06/22/98

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Dear Bob:
In the french magazine La Puce Echiqueene dedicated to chess computers
they talks of a Crafty package called Crafty4d that would bring everything,
openning book, etc. They are right? The address the ive to get it I cannot get.
It existt thios full equiped ready-to-use Crafty?
If so, ¿where?
Fernando

On June 22, 1998 at 18:37:38, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 22, 1998 at 13:38:45, Moritz Berger wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>
>I think this is perfectly legitimate.  When I played actively in tournaments,
>I did the same thing, particularly against one well-known expert in our club
>that *hated* tactical gambit openings.  That's all he ever got from me.  :)
>
>The right opening can make a huge difference.  So can the wrong one.  :)
>
>Bob
>
>>Moritz



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