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Subject: Re: mclane's summer-tournament: end of round #8

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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