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Subject: Re: fritz opening book troubles

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 19:13:35 11/22/02

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On November 22, 2002 at 13:29:44, David Terry wrote:

>I was hoping someone could help me correct what I believe to be a problem.  I
>startup my fritz and it appears to reference my opening book.  On the right side
>panel it says something like "fritz7, fritz7.ctg, 192MB"
>Under book options I have everything checked off to use opening boook.
>
>However when I start a game against fritz it will pop up lines as if it is
>analyzing the opening position and take a good amount of time before moving.  I
>thought the whole point of the opening book was that it already had all the
>lines figured out and could just play without "thinking"
>
>Might anyone know why fritz is behaving like this?

It's hard to answer your question because one doesn't know which OS you are
running under.  I'm not an expert - so what follows was my experience under
WIn2K

When Fritz was installed, it did not copy the book to the hardrive - it left it
on the CD  - which is fine except when you don't have the CD in.  I manually
copied the *.ctg files to (on my machine) the default folder (under Win2K)
"D:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\ChessBase\Books" (my
"D"Drive has the OS).  It still did not work.

There are two other files which must be copied *.ctb and *.cto.  After I copied
those files - the book worked.

This may help. I'm not sure.



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