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Subject: Re: Chessbase 9 help

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 05:24:12 01/02/06

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On January 02, 2006 at 08:17:55, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On January 02, 2006 at 08:13:04, Sune Larsson wrote:
>
>>On January 02, 2006 at 07:38:12, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
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>>>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. :)


  And of course you know it all as usual...:) I described how the search booster
  works in CB8 - so this trick can be tried in CB9 also. What makes you so sure
  that the search booster so dramatically has improved from CB8 to CB9?
  If you cannot verfify that - then I'm afraid your comment has juat nada
  substance and more reflects your known besserwisser attitude.

  /S




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>> /S
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>>>>  Good luck
>>>>  /S



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