Breaking News -15.06.2019: Important information mainly about the played openings: Statistics Finely SCCT lost and I've done my best to create stronger: Details Download: All Opening Books (in CTG format / Games (in PGN)
The Champion: Polyglot - Congrats to Top Polyglot Book Authors! Asmbook, Goi, JackStrong, Morphius, Pirates, Polyphemus, PoSS, Ranomi... # PLAYER : RATING POINTS GAMES (%) 1 Polyglot : 3619.7 175.0 300 58.3% 2 ICCF : 3598.0 165.5 300 55.2% 3 SCCT : 3592.4 163.0 300 54.3% 4 ChampKiller : 3586.8 160.5 300 53.5% 5 CEGT : 3580.0 157.5 300 52.5% 6 SSDF : 3577.8 156.5 300 52.2% 7 OwnBook : 3576.6 156.0 300 52.0% 8 PlayChess : 3566.5 151.5 300 50.5% 9 InfinityChess : 3565.4 151.0 300 50.3% 10 CCRL : 3559.8 148.5 300 49.5% 11 GMsKiller : 3559.8 148.5 300 49.5% 12 TCEC : 3559.8 148.5 300 49.5% 13 FGRL : 3555.3 146.5 300 48.8% 14 antiChamp : 3548.6 143.5 300 47.8% 15 FCP : 3540.7 140.0 300 46.7% 16 NoBookKiller : 3416.3 88.0 300 29.3% Some Notes Small books (in size), which prefer to play usually various openings All books are played by same engine: asmFishWCP 130519 BMI2 A strength test is available (about SCCT XXIV): Results / Games For each book player is installed a separate copy of asmFish engine Chessbase (ctg) main book settings: Learning ON, Optimized, 0/100 Exception, I set for all books: 'Variety of Play' near to middle (50%) My created books are ctg format, based on only SCCT Book Tours During books creations, I picked the won games played: 2017-2019 Some info about which ones are based/optimized to prefer the wins: antiChamp book tuned to prefer the Top books players lost games CEGT is tuned to prefer the wins of previous CEGT opening books ChampKiller is optimized to play the wins of Top books openings FCP (due to no much games) includes wins by FEOBOS books too GMsKiller prefers won games: only GMs books vs Engine books ICCF prefers the won games played by correspondence book series NoBookKiller is tuned to prefer the wins, which played by No book OwnBook prefers the wins by own books (Hiarcs, Chiron, Texel etc) Polyglot is optimized to prefer the wins played by Top bin books PlayChess tuned to prefer the wins played by Playchess book series SCCT book tuned to prefer the wins played by Perfect book series About rest: CCRL, FGRL, SSDF, TCEC etc. created in same way... Overall draw percentage (based on 2400 games): not so high: 66% Download: All Opening Books (in CTG format / Games (in PGN) XXVI XXV XXIV XXIII XXII XXI XX XIX XVIII XVII XVI XV XIV
The Champion: Polyglot - Congrats to Top Polyglot Book Authors! Asmbook, Goi, JackStrong, Morphius, Pirates, Polyphemus, PoSS, Ranomi... # PLAYER : RATING POINTS GAMES (%) 1 Polyglot : 3619.7 175.0 300 58.3% 2 ICCF : 3598.0 165.5 300 55.2% 3 SCCT : 3592.4 163.0 300 54.3% 4 ChampKiller : 3586.8 160.5 300 53.5% 5 CEGT : 3580.0 157.5 300 52.5% 6 SSDF : 3577.8 156.5 300 52.2% 7 OwnBook : 3576.6 156.0 300 52.0% 8 PlayChess : 3566.5 151.5 300 50.5% 9 InfinityChess : 3565.4 151.0 300 50.3% 10 CCRL : 3559.8 148.5 300 49.5% 11 GMsKiller : 3559.8 148.5 300 49.5% 12 TCEC : 3559.8 148.5 300 49.5% 13 FGRL : 3555.3 146.5 300 48.8% 14 antiChamp : 3548.6 143.5 300 47.8% 15 FCP : 3540.7 140.0 300 46.7% 16 NoBookKiller : 3416.3 88.0 300 29.3% Some Notes Small books (in size), which prefer to play usually various openings All books are played by same engine: asmFishWCP 130519 BMI2 A strength test is available (about SCCT XXIV): Results / Games For each book player is installed a separate copy of asmFish engine Chessbase (ctg) main book settings: Learning ON, Optimized, 0/100 Exception, I set for all books: 'Variety of Play' near to middle (50%) My created books are ctg format, based on only SCCT Book Tours During books creations, I picked the won games played: 2017-2019 Some info about which ones are based/optimized to prefer the wins: antiChamp book tuned to prefer the Top books players lost games CEGT is tuned to prefer the wins of previous CEGT opening books ChampKiller is optimized to play the wins of Top books openings FCP (due to no much games) includes wins by FEOBOS books too GMsKiller prefers won games: only GMs books vs Engine books ICCF prefers the won games played by correspondence book series NoBookKiller is tuned to prefer the wins, which played by No book OwnBook prefers the wins by own books (Hiarcs, Chiron, Texel etc) Polyglot is optimized to prefer the wins played by Top bin books PlayChess tuned to prefer the wins played by Playchess book series SCCT book tuned to prefer the wins played by Perfect book series About rest: CCRL, FGRL, SSDF, TCEC etc. created in same way... Overall draw percentage (based on 2400 games): not so high: 66% Download: All Opening Books (in CTG format / Games (in PGN) XXVI XXV XXIV XXIII XXII XXI XX XIX XVIII XVII XVI XV XIV