Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 06:58:56 01/02/06
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On January 02, 2006 at 08:53:45, Sune Larsson wrote: >On January 02, 2006 at 08:43:18, Rolf Tueschen wrote: > >>On January 02, 2006 at 08:24:12, Sune Larsson wrote: >> >>>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: >>>>> >>>>>>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. >> >>It's just class. But please read what I wrote directly to Peter and then please >>get what it means. We have here not a weak CB feature but a chess based >>normality with not yet the final ECO code. With how many searches you will solve >>this for a mainly still opening position? I explained how you can do it. I >>repeat: you go into database search and then search for position and then enter >>"board" you had when you had entered the line. THEN yxou find exactly this >>position but it's not the same search than then one out of the board window >>while replaying a game. That was my research result as always with class. I >>apologize for so much class. I know that you have class too!!! :) > > > Is the search booster dramatically improved from CB8 to CB9? Did you find > any evidence for that? If not - keep the trick of building a new cbb in > mind. I have seen people *believe* that the cbb worked okey, [after they > added games to the db] since they got *some* results when they made a search. > But comparing these results to a freshly built cbb - the illusion was > revealed. Often I change my bartholdy and all is kosher again! Try it! > > /S >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> /S >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Good luck >>>>>>> /S
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