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Subject: Re: Hiarcs9 book

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 16:23:13 09/18/03

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On September 18, 2003 at 17:52:24, Chessfun wrote:

>On September 18, 2003 at 17:20:11, Günther Simon wrote:
>
>>On September 18, 2003 at 16:53:52, Chessfun wrote:
>>
>>>[Event "Blitz:60'+2""]
>>>[Site "Barrie"]
>>>[Date "????.??.??"]
>>>[Round "?"]
>>>[White "New game"]
>>>[Black "Hiarcs 9"]
>>>[Result "*"]
>>>[PlyCount "53"]
>>>[TimeControl "3600+2"]
>>>
>>>{192MB, XP 2600} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7
>>>7. Qg4 O-O 8. Bd3 Nbc6 9. Qh5 Ng6 10. Nf3 Qc7 11. Be3 c4 12. Bxg6 fxg6 13. Qg4
>>>Bd7 14. h4 Rf5 15. h5 gxh5 16. Rxh5 Ne7 17. Rh3 Ng6 18. Ng5 Nf8 19. Nxh7 Nxh7
>>>20. Qh4 Nf8 21. g4 Ng6 22. Qh7+ Kf7 23. gxf5 exf5 24. Rg3 Qb6 25. Bh6 Rg8 26.
>>>Kd2 f4 27. Rg5 1-0*
>>>
>>>Hiarcs as can be seen plays 1. e6 and I guess it is a 10% book chance anyway
>>>after 16...Ne7 thinks the score pretty even and is lost less than 10 moves
>>>later. 16...Ne7 is listed as a book move with 0 games played so why does Hiarcs
>>>play it as a book move?, book is optimized.
>>>
>>>Sarah.
>>
>>I see that there are 3 book moves in the Hiarcs9.ctg:
>>Ne7, Raf8 and Rxh5, when Ne7 was played 3 times and the
>>others zero times.
>
>No Raf8 is 3 times others zero.

Yes, that was a typo, sorry.

>Nevertheless the probability for
>>all three is set to zero, when Ne7 has a '!'.
>
>You're right though Ne7 is !
>
>>This should be the reason why it is played from book,
>
>Not sure I would assume Raf8 as optimized is minimum 3 games played so that
>would be the only move that met the requirement.

Well, we should really ask Chessbase in this case.
It seems that in case of all moves are prob. 0, a !
tends to overrule the games min. number requirement.
(IOW ! would be useless if overruled by game number ;)

>Sarah.

Regards,
Günther



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