Registration Details• Opening Book registrations are not acceptable, for more info: Contact• The current XXIII competition was as active for a long time of period• There was a rule: 'Visa' (against cheating, thanks for your understanding): From Unknown Book Makers, it's required decent online engine games In short, min 100 games is needed (played on Playchess, Infinitychess etc.) The 'Visa' rule is only for new Incomers, who wished to submit a book • ChessBase (ctg), Polyglot (bin) opening book formats are allowed mainly.. • The maximum book size should be less than 350 MB (in compressed size) • Recommended sites: Datafilehost / Mediafire / Zippyshare • New books are tested once in 30 days (one book per Book Author) Exception, Top 5 players had choice to update two times in 30 days In short, (in case of updates) those books are just resumed to play... And the new updated book versions are published as last released date
Important (for Top 5 book players)• In case of update (2 times in 30 days): Please don't edit book name! I mean , please do not change the book name / e.g keep it as before... Otherwise, I'm afraid that there is a possibility to be played without book Because the gauntlet tournaments are ready / pre-configured to be used...
Tournament Details• All opening books played by same engine: asmFishWCP 041118 BMI2• For each book participant is installed a separate copy of asmFish engine• A strength test is available (about current book tour): Games• New entrants will be played (min 300 games) mainly against Top players• The main book settings (for ctg books): Learning ON, Optimized 0/100 Exception can be used other settings, in case of request by Book Authors So far only a few opening books are played with Author's book settings PowerBook2009 and TWIC books tested with settings: Optimized 3/100 The rest ctg books played with settings: Learning ON, Optimized 0/100• The Polyglot (bin) books are played with Best Book Move as disabled Otherwise, Bin vs Bin (BM ON) usually play 2 exactly same openings Just imagine about 20 games (each other) 2 absolutely identical openings• The ranking calculated by Ordo (Asmbook 051018 is fixed to 3500 Elo)• Any Book Leader started to be counted as a Champion in this long tour! E.g to be on Top is not so easy as it looks, it's needed really very hard work... And just because it's hard...it does not mean to give up, try again and again! In other words, if you want to become successful, you should never quit...!Anyhow, please don't take too seriously the results, it's just a fun tournament
Participant Details• On 06.12.2018, mostly of the participated books are in CTG format• BIN: Asmbook, JODI, MZ, Marvin, Medulla, PoSS, Texel, Thanos• As own played opening books: Asmbook, ArasanX, Marvin, Texel Attacker Pro 3 is still as Number One, really great performance so far...! Vitamin 051118 book was as Leader more than 3 weeks...just impressive! Armor, GoldenHorn, Ragnar 1977 books were as Leaders too (for a while)• Big nur Iccf book (by Pannemarion) is available at MZ chess forum• AcademiKo book (by Angel Morano) as a new incomer not so bad• Cerebellum 161118 is ctg format, based on Cerebellum 110618 Updated with the Cerebellum games (played in SCCT CS tours)• Chopin 200818 (Author Unknown) source of database: Download• Goi 021218 is ctg format (v5.1 updated) by Massimiliano Goi• Infinity book (by Cevdet Sarı) = based on Infinitychess games...• MOS opening book (Modern Old School) by Rafael Paulo• Pufferfish (by Svetlin Ivanov) the previous as Hippopotamus• Thanos (by Bilal Tanosoedibyo) best performance of bin books• TWIC 2300+ (by Peter Grayson) source: The Week in Chess• Brutality, Cluster, Yukawa etc.are old books, download: BRChess• Armor, Blue, JODI, Matador, PoSS, Stealth etc. please see: XX • And I have created some ctg books, which are up to 50 moves:- ArasanX = tuned to prefer Arasan engine's own book openings- CCCC = based on Computer Chess Championship - Chess.com- Champ2018 = high-rated players (SCCT Book Tours 2017-2018) E.g Champ prefers the wins of previous tours (without XXIII games)- CorrBook = high-rated correspondence players (average 2450 Elo)- Critter = based on engine games played on Critter's competitions- E8400 based on games, played at slow time control mig2004 tours- FCP = based on FCP's (including SWCR2) high-rated engine games- FICS2018 = high-rated engine games, played on FICS server in 2018- GMs 2700+ = tuned to prefer the wins, played on SCCT CS XVIII- GM Master = tuned to prefer the wins played by SCCT GMs books I mean about those wins, which defeated the deep engine books...- Infinity2018, 2017 books = high-rated Infinitychess engine games- LCZero book prefers LCZero's engine wins (from various sources)- Perfect16 = my 10 years old book, as Number One:Playchess 2009- PHCEL book is based on engine games, played in PHCEL's tourneys- Playchess2018, 2017 etc = high-rated players (on Playchess server)- Playchess2008-09 tuned to prefer the Top players wins: 2008 / 2009- SPCC tuned to prefer Top players wins (without Cerebellum games)- WCCC = based on World Computer Chess Championship's games WCCC is optimized to prefer the Top players wins (since 2005...)- About CCRL, CEGT, FGRL, SCCT, SSDF, TCEC books etc: XX For more info about books, which prefer various openings:Results
Statistic Details (24.12.2018)• The current draw percentage (based on 30500 games) is not so high:68%• Average Move Length (per side):79 / Game Length: 8.5 Min (per game)• And I have good news: So far no any game to be lost/forfeited on time
Some Comments Due to requests about testing only the Top 5 books and I believe that If we run a lot of games (each other), then will appear many doubles Because, usually the Top books prefer strictly same/similar openings Plus, some of the Top books or opening database available to public That means, it's quite easier to optimize, tune or to block the strength... In short, current system way (against min 50 players) seems to be better... Btw, I expected better performance by Playchess2008-2009, but it seems The opening theory is changed a lot, in fact it's all ok, we can't expect much By 10 years old openings, and no surprise that Perfect 16 book suffers too But not always, still some of the Perfect16's old openings work flawlessly... For example, P16 book is the same one (without any modification) which was Almost unbeatable in 2009 and interesting to note its performance is close to SCCT book (based on Perfect 2018), e.g Perfect16 contains highly optimized Deep openings played mainly by Rybka 3 engine, where SCCT book includes Games played mainly by SF, Houdini, Komodo...Note: SCCT book is without Optimizations after 8 moves, for example Rybka 3 is more than 400 Elo weaker Than the current Top engines, but I think the hand-tuning (over P16) is played A big role...and Perfect 16's performance is still not so bad even after 10 years!
And as last note, just I'd like to mention that,I've noticed a new book, which has high similarities to another one!Only this time I will show as tolerance, but next time I can't promise...And as I said before, Nobody can be on Top by the work of other/s!
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Important (for Top 5 book players)• In case of update (2 times in 30 days): Please don't edit book name! I mean , please do not change the book name / e.g keep it as before... Otherwise, I'm afraid that there is a possibility to be played without book Because the gauntlet tournaments are ready / pre-configured to be used...
Tournament Details• All opening books played by same engine: asmFishWCP 041118 BMI2• For each book participant is installed a separate copy of asmFish engine• A strength test is available (about current book tour): Games• New entrants will be played (min 300 games) mainly against Top players• The main book settings (for ctg books): Learning ON, Optimized 0/100 Exception can be used other settings, in case of request by Book Authors So far only a few opening books are played with Author's book settings PowerBook2009 and TWIC books tested with settings: Optimized 3/100 The rest ctg books played with settings: Learning ON, Optimized 0/100• The Polyglot (bin) books are played with Best Book Move as disabled Otherwise, Bin vs Bin (BM ON) usually play 2 exactly same openings Just imagine about 20 games (each other) 2 absolutely identical openings• The ranking calculated by Ordo (Asmbook 051018 is fixed to 3500 Elo)• Any Book Leader started to be counted as a Champion in this long tour! E.g to be on Top is not so easy as it looks, it's needed really very hard work... And just because it's hard...it does not mean to give up, try again and again! In other words, if you want to become successful, you should never quit...!Anyhow, please don't take too seriously the results, it's just a fun tournament
Participant Details• On 06.12.2018, mostly of the participated books are in CTG format• BIN: Asmbook, JODI, MZ, Marvin, Medulla, PoSS, Texel, Thanos• As own played opening books: Asmbook, ArasanX, Marvin, Texel Attacker Pro 3 is still as Number One, really great performance so far...! Vitamin 051118 book was as Leader more than 3 weeks...just impressive! Armor, GoldenHorn, Ragnar 1977 books were as Leaders too (for a while)• Big nur Iccf book (by Pannemarion) is available at MZ chess forum• AcademiKo book (by Angel Morano) as a new incomer not so bad• Cerebellum 161118 is ctg format, based on Cerebellum 110618 Updated with the Cerebellum games (played in SCCT CS tours)• Chopin 200818 (Author Unknown) source of database: Download• Goi 021218 is ctg format (v5.1 updated) by Massimiliano Goi• Infinity book (by Cevdet Sarı) = based on Infinitychess games...• MOS opening book (Modern Old School) by Rafael Paulo• Pufferfish (by Svetlin Ivanov) the previous as Hippopotamus• Thanos (by Bilal Tanosoedibyo) best performance of bin books• TWIC 2300+ (by Peter Grayson) source: The Week in Chess• Brutality, Cluster, Yukawa etc.are old books, download: BRChess• Armor, Blue, JODI, Matador, PoSS, Stealth etc. please see: XX • And I have created some ctg books, which are up to 50 moves:- ArasanX = tuned to prefer Arasan engine's own book openings- CCCC = based on Computer Chess Championship - Chess.com- Champ2018 = high-rated players (SCCT Book Tours 2017-2018) E.g Champ prefers the wins of previous tours (without XXIII games)- CorrBook = high-rated correspondence players (average 2450 Elo)- Critter = based on engine games played on Critter's competitions- E8400 based on games, played at slow time control mig2004 tours- FCP = based on FCP's (including SWCR2) high-rated engine games- FICS2018 = high-rated engine games, played on FICS server in 2018- GMs 2700+ = tuned to prefer the wins, played on SCCT CS XVIII- GM Master = tuned to prefer the wins played by SCCT GMs books I mean about those wins, which defeated the deep engine books...- Infinity2018, 2017 books = high-rated Infinitychess engine games- LCZero book prefers LCZero's engine wins (from various sources)- Perfect16 = my 10 years old book, as Number One:Playchess 2009- PHCEL book is based on engine games, played in PHCEL's tourneys- Playchess2018, 2017 etc = high-rated players (on Playchess server)- Playchess2008-09 tuned to prefer the Top players wins: 2008 / 2009- SPCC tuned to prefer Top players wins (without Cerebellum games)- WCCC = based on World Computer Chess Championship's games WCCC is optimized to prefer the Top players wins (since 2005...)- About CCRL, CEGT, FGRL, SCCT, SSDF, TCEC books etc: XX For more info about books, which prefer various openings:Results
Statistic Details (24.12.2018)• The current draw percentage (based on 30500 games) is not so high:68%• Average Move Length (per side):79 / Game Length: 8.5 Min (per game)• And I have good news: So far no any game to be lost/forfeited on time
Some Comments Due to requests about testing only the Top 5 books and I believe that If we run a lot of games (each other), then will appear many doubles Because, usually the Top books prefer strictly same/similar openings Plus, some of the Top books or opening database available to public That means, it's quite easier to optimize, tune or to block the strength... In short, current system way (against min 50 players) seems to be better... Btw, I expected better performance by Playchess2008-2009, but it seems The opening theory is changed a lot, in fact it's all ok, we can't expect much By 10 years old openings, and no surprise that Perfect 16 book suffers too But not always, still some of the Perfect16's old openings work flawlessly... For example, P16 book is the same one (without any modification) which was Almost unbeatable in 2009 and interesting to note its performance is close to SCCT book (based on Perfect 2018), e.g Perfect16 contains highly optimized Deep openings played mainly by Rybka 3 engine, where SCCT book includes Games played mainly by SF, Houdini, Komodo...Note: SCCT book is without Optimizations after 8 moves, for example Rybka 3 is more than 400 Elo weaker Than the current Top engines, but I think the hand-tuning (over P16) is played A big role...and Perfect 16's performance is still not so bad even after 10 years!
And as last note, just I'd like to mention that,I've noticed a new book, which has high similarities to another one!Only this time I will show as tolerance, but next time I can't promise...And as I said before, Nobody can be on Top by the work of other/s!
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