Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 08:20:06 07/02/04
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On July 02, 2004 at 09:58:10, Norm Pollock wrote:
>On July 02, 2004 at 09:48:36, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>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
>
>Kurt,
>
>I know there is something very wrong. What are your book settings in the fritz8
>gui? Any other settings that you use?
>
>I was running TheKing3.23 v TheKing3.33 with the same book for both engines. I
>had book learning on, tournament book on, minimum variety of openings. Clearly,
>I maximized the possibilities for duplicates.
>
>Norm
Hi Norm
My book options are set as follows:
x Use Book
x Tournament book
Optimize
Minimum games 3
Up to move 35
But the original books used are always write protected
and therefore no book learning will be possible.
Kurt
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