Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 22:59:19 09/19/99
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>Posted by James T. Walker on September 19, 1999 at 18:12:10: > >>You must be kidding. Book-learning is dominant. Have a look at the Rebel >>Century games on my pages. You will notice the match Rebel Century - >>Fritz 5.32. Fritz 5.32 was caught 14-15 times on 1.b3 As a result Fritz >>lost 14-15 times and therefore lost the match. Remove the doubles and >>Fritz would have won this match. It's a perfect example how silly these >>matches are for so called accurate testing. It is meaningless and misleading. > >******************** >The above paragraph bothers me a lot. I will try to find these games and >have a look. The question that comes to mind is: Were you using Fritz at the >point in time when it's book learning was broken? There was a point in time when >it's book learning using auto232 was broken. This was fixed in the last SP1. >Jim Walker >********************* I have used the standard version from cdrom. I did not know there can be an auto232 problem with book-learning. When you look at the book you will see that black's alternatives on 1.b3 are very limited in fact there is only one (4..Bd6). In such cases it will be very hard to escape from the opponent learner with an IMO non-valid match score as result. Cases are many also in the Rebel book (I fear) with uncommon openings like 1.b3 , 1.d3 , 1. e3 etc. Ed Schroder
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