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Subject: Re: Hiarcs v Fritz opening books

Author: Melvin S. Schwartz

Date: 12:47:08 07/01/99

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On July 01, 1999 at 07:33:49, James T. Walker wrote:

>On July 01, 1999 at 00:57:48, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote:
>
>>
>>On June 30, 1999 at 22:18:52, Steve Lopez wrote:
>>
>>>On June 30, 1999 at 20:20:56, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Hiarcs: Black: 1.e4...c5  2.Nf3...e6  3.d4...cxd4  4.Nxd4...Nf6
>>>
>>>I think you mean 4...Nc6
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>>No, I don't mean 4...Nc6!!!
>>
>>You are confused so let me post it here afain.
>>
>>Hiarcs is playing Black and I am playing White.
>>
>>1e4...c5  2.Nf3...e6  3.d4...cxd4  4.Nxd4...Nf6  5.Nc3...Nc6  6.Nxc6...bxc6
>>7.e5...Nd5 (this is where Hiarcs should have played Qc7!) 8.Ne4...f5
>>9.Nd6+...Bxd6 (and here Hiarcs played Bxd6 when the info window said Bxd6 no
>>which was highlighted in red.
>>
>**********
>Hello Melvin,
>In your line above the move you suggest 7.....Qc7 seems to lose the knight on
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I should have said Qc7 instead of f5! After f5, this allowed me to play Nd6+
forcing Bxd6 - take a look at the position. By the way, Hiarcs score was around
a +.50 for me after the exchange. I also posted a lousy Bishop's opening for
Hiarcs. I suggest you look at my original post. If you want me to post it again,
just let me know.
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>f6.  It seems obvious that the knight needs to move after e5 and Nd5 seems a
>good choice.  Something is wrong with your line above if you think 7....Qc7 is a
>good move.  Also I posted earlier, in response to someone saying Hiarcs book was
>not good.  I took the first 100 games I played Hiarcs vs Fritz and checked the
>Fritz score when out of book.  In 68 games Fritz believed Hiarcs was better or
>equal (I think equal in about 8 games) which means in 32 games Fritz was better.
> This does not look like a bad book to me.  Also the manual mentions that you
>should NOT play Fritz using Hiarcs book OR edit the Hiarcs ________________________________________________________

I am playing against Hiarcs with the Hiarcs opening book and I have NOT edited
it. Also, I always use tournament book on and NEVER change that setting.

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book since this will
>give the book bad values in the tree.  So anyone who has done this should reset
>the tree and start over again.
>Jim Walker
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>>>
>>>>5.Nxc6...bxc6
>>>>6.e5
>>>
>>>This move (6.e5) is not in Hiarcs' opening book, so one of you guys must have
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>>Hiarcs is playing Black! I played e5!!!
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>>
>>>added it.
>>>
>>>Remember that when the book is open, any move you make on the board is added to
>>>the tree. So if you want to shuffle pieces around while looking at a position,
>>>make sure the tree is closed.
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>>I was not consulting the tree, nor was it open! I was playing a game against
>>Hiarcs at 40/2.
>>
>>Mel
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>>>
>>>-- Steve Lopez



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