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Subject: Re: Fritz5 has an unfair disadvantage in mclane's tournament

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 13:20:31 09/13/98

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On September 13, 1998 at 16:01:00, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>Right.  The question is, is the big wide book a good idea in a tournament like
>this.

chess system tal has a book melted out of 1.300.000 human games. Many games in
this data-pot are weak games. the book is as big as the fritz-book. it also runs
from cd. Have you ever heard us complain about it ?!?!?!?!
All these complaints by the fans of fritz are pure ranting because they cannot
see the program lose... i don't care.

>  Another question is if Thorsten overruled book moves.

how ? It runs from the cd, the original cd. I press the optimal button when my
witness is in the room and watches me (in fact - he is operating fritz, i am
operating the opponent, so we come good and convinient through the opening...).
HOW shall i overrule the book ??? Also i can reproduce the games on any of the 3
machines i have. some moves come rarer than others, but they appear.

>You can put one of these answers in each hand and look at them.  Your feelings
>about Fritz, Thorsten, and Murphy's Law will dictate the regard for which you
>hold each of these answers.

:-))

>If Thorsten is cheating, the roof falls in, there is no truth here, this thread
>is gone, everything is a big mess.

>If this is a problem with the "power book" combined with Murphy's law, I think
>it might be interesting to talk about it and investigate it.  Perhaps the Fritz
>guys will learn something, and perhaps those of us who use large auto-generated
>books will learn something.

we have done it in cstal book very good IMO. cstal will NOT play any line that
leads into a loss.
It knows the statistics of each position. And the sero-chances moves are locked.
They will never appear because the engine begins to compute. of course the
engine could compute the sero-chances moves, but than the machine would lose
with or without book from this position...

>Rather than impugning Thorsten I would rather try to learn something.
>
>bruce



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