Author: Georg Langrath
Date: 22:08:40 05/12/99
Go up one level in this thread
Thanks. My mistake was that I didn't notice that database is case-sensitive. The database in Fritz 516 is not, although they say so in manual. Georg On May 12, 1999 at 22:15:24, Steve Lopez wrote: >On May 12, 1999 at 16:40:44, Georg Langrath wrote: > >>I can’t get database to work in my Fritz 5.32. When I try Search (for example >>"Kasparov") I always get ”no games found”. I also have Fritz 516 and there is no >>problem. Anybody that has the same problem? Any ideas what has got wrong? >> > >Go to www.chessbaseusa.com and take a look at T-Notes for January 24, 1999; >you'll find a number of explanations and solutions for problems with the Search >Mask. Among them, briefly: > >1) ALWAYS click the "reset all" button before starting a new search (this is the >most common problem -- somebody does a search for an offbeat opening and forgets >to reset the search mask, then types in a player name for a new search. The old >search criteria are still there from the previous search, so they wind up >looking for all of Fischer's Grob games as White). > >2) Make sure you're typing Kasparov in the left-hand box (the search mask works >like a phone book -- last name first, first name last). > >3) Make sure you've capitalized the K in Kasparov (the search mask is >case-sensitive). > >4) Make sure you're in the correct database (that you haven't accidentally >selected a different database than the one you intended to search. > >5) Make sure the program is refueled. > >-- Steve Lopez
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.