Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 05:13:04 01/02/06
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On January 02, 2006 at 07:38:12, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >On January 02, 2006 at 04:00:38, Sune Larsson wrote: > >>On January 02, 2006 at 00:54:13, Peter Skinner wrote: >> >>>On January 02, 2006 at 00:29:22, James T. Walker wrote: >>> >>>>I don't own CB9 but in the Fritz/similiar GUIs you can just enter the moves or >>>>the final position and search by "position". It will yield all games in the >>>>database with the final position. Does that help? >>>>Jim >>> >>>I am trying that, and it is not giving me any results. It is frustrating me to >>>no end. >>> >>>I will try to load my database into the regular Fritz interface and see if that >>>will work. >>> >>>Peter >> >> >> hmmmm...look in your explorer for your Monsterbase files - if you have a file >> called Monsterbase.cbb (searchbooster) throw that one away - open CB9 - >> follow the advice you got here in other posts - search position - then you >> should be asked if you want to create a search booster - answer ok - it >> will take some minutes - then you have a fresh Monsterbase.cbb - and should >> get results. That's how it works in CB8. For some reason this search booster >> screws up when you add games to the base... > >Give it a short moment of reflection. The reason isnt spooky - it's just that >you have probably NOT continued to build the search booster and for this >normally helping file your new games are inexistent. For this case you made the >half-true advise that the file should be deleted. But give it another moment of >reflection. Isnt it second-best to delete a big and helpful file only because >you didnt add a couple of new games? The correct solution is always updating >this booster file. No - at least CB8 didn't always work properly when updating the booster file. This is old knowledge. That's why I recommend throwing the old one and building a new. I'm sorry, but your "correct solution" is just wrong here. /S > >> >> Good luck >> /S
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