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Subject: Re: Chessbase 9 help

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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