Author: Amir Ban
Date: 11:33:11 09/13/98
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On September 13, 1998 at 13:12:52, Bruce Moreland wrote: >I think that since Thorsten is known to be an anti-Fan of Fritz, that he should >take especially careful steps to make sure that he gets the computer set up >right, selects the right book and gets it set up right, and documents the games >so that people can play them through and understand the opening book choices. > >It sounds like Fritz dynamically changes its opening book weights, so it will be >hard to verify the book. > If the PowerBook resides on CD-ROM, it is not modified by learning and is in its original state. If it was copied to disk, there's a Fritz function to restore all book weights to original. Even simpler, you can turn off the effect of book learning (but the "optimal" setting of Fritz actually turns it to maximum). I think the "correct" way to use the PowerBook is in their original state without effects of learning. Still, even if the weights have been changed by learning, it does not make sense to argue that this makes Fritz weaker, because learning is supposed to make Fritz stronger (and if it doesn't, this is not Thorsten's fault). The only "wrong" way to use the PowerBook is to change the weights artificially, something that Fritz5 allows. The argument that Fritz is getting a bad deal because the PowerBook is not the best book for Fritz should be ignored even if it's true (I don't think so), because ChessBase publish it as the strongest book for Fritz and that's all Thorsten needs to know. Amir
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