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Subject: Re: Fritz8 gui settings to minimize duplicate games

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 06:48:36 07/02/04

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On July 02, 2004 at 08:49:45, Norm Pollock wrote:

>A big deficiency of the Fritz8 gui is the astounding large number of duplicate
>games in engine-engine tournaments involving 2 engines. Out of 60 games, over
>half were duplicates of another game (possible because of triplets, quadruplets,
>etc).
>
>It is hard to detect the duplicates because of the new cbh file format: Create a
>new database in pgn format. Copy the suspected group of games to that database.
>Outside of the gui, check for duplicates with pgn-extract utility. Maybe there
>is an easier way?
>
>I think the main cause is the book settings. I now turned off "tournament book".
>I now maximized variety of games. I hope that helps reduce the duplicates.
>
>Any suggestions?


     There seems to be something wrong with your settings.
     Out of 500 games I have never encountered more than
     5-7 doubles and most of them are related to games
     with Junior 8.
     Kurt



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