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Subject: Re: Hiarcs v Fritz opening books

Author: Chuck

Date: 10:32:18 06/30/99

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On June 30, 1999 at 12:33:37, Sune Larsson wrote:

>On June 30, 1999 at 12:23:41, eric guttenberg wrote:
>
>>A couple of recent posts have suggested that H7.32's opening book contains
>>a high number of seriously defective lines which may have contributed to
>>its negative score versus F5.32 in Jim Walker's autoplay games reported here
>>recently.
>>Is there in fact a significant quality gap between the opening lines played
>>out of F5.32 and H7.32 in their original opening books?
>>I am just trying to make some sense out or the highly coflicting results
>>between these two programs.  It is almost enough to make me go out and buy
>>a second computer system to run some tests myself, but then my wife would
>>probably be facing homocide charges...
>>
>>eric
>
>Oh, these problems can be solved by therapy or something! At least we know
>that Hiarcs MUST play with "tournamentbook" on!
>

>Greetings!
>Sune

IMO Fritz has the best opening book of all the programs (with the possible
exception of Junior and Nimzo, which I don't have). I have NEVER seen Fritz
come out of book in a bad position. Fritz probably scores alot of points in
the SSDF, especially against older programs, before it even begins calculating.



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