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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