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Subject: Re: books and final explanations to mark young

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 14:32:54 09/13/98

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On September 13, 1998 at 15:43:41, Mark Young wrote:


>I don’t have a problem with Fritz 5 playing weak moves. It may play a weak move
>and think the move is best and rank it the highest move out of 4 or 5 possible
>moves it could play. What I don’t understand is why in your tournament, Fritz 5
>continually played the lowest ranking moves, move after move and game after
>game. This is not normal behavior for Fritz 5 to act in such a way. That is my
>problem with your games. So the question is why did Fritz 5 continually play
>lower ranking moves over moves Fritz 5 thought from its own book tree were
>better?  If that was normal for Fritz 5 to do this I would not have a problem,
>but it is not normal for Fritz 5 to act in such a way. The pattern is clear and
>evident in your games that fritz liked lower percentage move over higher
>percentage moves in your tournament. That suggests some kind of problem and
>anyone looking at the data would agree.

Post the games, post the percentages, please.  You are making a conclusion based
upon data, please show us the data.

bruce



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