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Subject: Re: My game against Fritz 8 :) Comments welcome

Author: Richard Patterson

Date: 13:58:20 08/03/03

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On August 03, 2003 at 15:27:07, Alastair Scott wrote:

>On August 03, 2003 at 13:54:29, Mihaly Szalai wrote:
>
>>Nice game!
>>I find it strange that Fritz 8 played 16.- Nb6?,
>>on my Celeron 1.7 Ghz machine it takes 40 seconds
>>to see this is a bad move.
>
>I think 10 ... h6? is probably the big mistake. Trying three strong engines:
>
>Ruffian 1.0.1: g6 immediately, Kh8 after 2 seconds, h6 after 12 seconds, Kh8
>after 62 seconds (and stays there).
>
>Aristarch 4.2.1: h6 immediately, Nxg4 after 2 seconds (and stays there).
>
>Yace Paderborn: g6 immediately (and stays there).
>
>All on an Athlon XP 2800+, 512MB RAM.
>
>None of those moves are particularly wonderful, although g6 is certainly least
>bad; that you had the opening book switched off explains a lot. I suggest that,
>with the opening book switched on, no "advanced" program nowadays would let
>itself get in the position after move 10 and would have steered clear well
>before.
>
>Alastair

I would like to say this has been an experience. I purchased Fritz 8 with the
opening book package. I assumed when it installed they would work together but
that was wrong on my part. I just found the section in Fritz 8 to import opening
book. When Fritz 8 had accused me of turning the book off I was not sure what it
meant. Still learning how to run the software to play the best game. I
appreciate the kinder ways of being told something is not right.

Richard



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