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Subject: Re: Hiarcs v Fritz opening books

Author: Terry Ripple

Date: 07:48:39 07/01/99

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On June 30, 1999 at 19:15:00, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote:

>
>On June 30, 1999 at 17:36:25, Sarah Bird wrote:
>
>>On June 30, 1999 at 17:16:17, Sune Larsson wrote:
>>
>>>On June 30, 1999 at 16:08:11, Terry Ripple wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 30, 1999 at 13:32:18, Chuck wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>-----------
>>>>Hi Hiarcs7.32 Owners!
>>>>  My post from last night in regards to 2 games and one was a Sicilian was about
>>>>this very thing. My Hiarcs7.32 never gone into these bogus lines and actually
>>>>showed a decent plus in the one opening and the other, equality!
>>>>  I think who ever is getting messed up opening lines from Hiarcs should try and
>>>>Re-set the Opening tree! There were other opening lines in openings that were
>>>>complained about and when i ran it through my Hiarcs7.32 it was fine.
>>>>  Best regards,
>>>> Terry Ripple
>>>
>>>Hallo Terry!
>>>
>>>Just how do you Re-set the Opening tree??
>>>
>>>Greetings
>>>Sune
>>
>>Sune,
>>    You re-set by first make sure Hiarcs book is loaded then click on book, then
>>browse tree, then click on book again and reset weights, ok or cancel click ok.
>>This will then set book back to default.
>>Sarah.
>
>Hello Sarah,
>
>Would you please explain to me why one should have to "reset" the tree? After
>copying the Hiarcs opening tree to the hard drive, why would it be necessary to
>repeat the process?
>
>Mel
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Mel, Hiarcs has a learning feature in its book thats adjusted by its weights!
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Terry



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