Author: Mark Young
Date: 18:36:06 09/29/98
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On September 29, 1998 at 19:19:42, Moritz Berger wrote: >On September 29, 1998 at 19:06:26, blass uri wrote: > >>On September 29, 1998 at 16:33:43, Steven Schwartz wrote: >> >> >>>Fritz was upgraded to the version that is on the chessBase server. Did >>>not help much. :-) >>> >>>Fritz was again unlucky with chosing the opening. It came with -1.5 >>>out of book and that was it. >> >>There is an update to fritz5's book that chessbase recommend to use >> >> >>From chessbase site: >> >>Fritz5 Update – On the ChessBase Magazine 63 CD there is also a free update for >>Fritz5 owners. >> >> Included on the CD is also a new optimised Fritz openings book, developed >>by computer chess expert >> C. de Gorter (Aegon tournament). It is an improved version of the book with >>which Fritz won the >> Computer Chess World Championship in Hong Kong. >> >> >> >>I hope that someone will send thorsten the cd with the better book. >>I think that it is a mistake of chessbase not to do it. >> >>Uri > >The PowerBook works fine - IF LEARNING IS ENABLED. > >Thorsten has stated here that he uses the book on CD. So there's no learning >taking place at all. > I missed that. When I ask him if he had the book options & book setup correctly, and he said yes, I would have thought he would have known to install the book to the hard drive. If not it does not matter much how the book options are setup. >Also, the book learning concept naturally works best when a large number of >games against preferrably strong opponents gets played. This is usually the case >e.g. in autoplayer (no problem at SSDF) or server games (no problem e.g. for >Mark Young). This is also the case when you play a "match" of e.g. 20 games >against the same opponent. That's why autoplayer and server results are better >than "amnesiac" results without any learning going on or learning from only a >handful of previous games, some against opponents more than 200 ELO points >weaker than Fritz. > >Remedy if you don't play many games but want to benefit from learning: Let Fritz >learn e.g. from the public SSDF games (maybe only those where also the PowerBook >was used). There you have several hundred games, add the games from Enriques >tournament if you like and Fritz will probably benefit more from its book. > >I don't like the "de Gorter" book on CBM 63, BTW. I think the PowerBook is >better against all kind of opposition. > >Moritz
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