Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 05:17:55 01/02/06
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On January 02, 2006 at 08:13:04, Sune Larsson wrote: >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. Intersting. And how come that Peter didnt speak about CB8 _at all_? He has CB9 and didnt find any games and I had the same result. So I can see very quickly that your _true_ comment on CB8 is no use here. :) > > /S > > > > >> >>> >>> Good luck >>> /S
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