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

Author: Moritz Berger

Date: 19:51:34 09/29/98

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On September 29, 1998 at 21:36:06, Mark Young wrote:

>On September 29, 1998 at 19:19:42, Moritz Berger wrote:

>>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.




Before somebody threatens me again, I better hurry up and prove my facts:

<begin quote>
Posted by Thorsten Czub on September 13, 1998 at 15:12:53:

In Reply to: Re: Fritz5 has an unfair disadvantage in mclane's tournament posted
by Amir Ban on September 13, 1998 at 14:33:11:

On September 13, 1998 at 14:33:11, Amir Ban wrote:
>I think the "correct" way to use the PowerBook is in their original state
>without effects of learning. Still, even if the weights have been changed by
>learning, it does not make sense to argue that this makes Fritz weaker, because
>learning is supposed to make Fritz stronger (and if it doesn't, this is not
>Thorsten's fault).

Power-book is on cd. so learning takes normally no effect. (other programs have
special learning files they copy on on hd after each game)

>The only "wrong" way to use the PowerBook is to change the weights artificially,
>something that Fritz5 allows.

as i said, my book is on cd. you can see this in the printouts/logouts of
fritz because it takes time to access to the cd and fritz measures the time...
<end quote>



I hope this is sufficiently clear to validate my factual statement.

Moritz



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