Book vs Book

Opening Book with Fritz GUI

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Opening Books

Daniel Charles E.Ly

Superleague

Engine testing condition

Cpu

GUI

Opening Book

Memory

total

Memory

hash

EGTB

(3-4-5??)

EGTB

cache

Time

Tournament

type

Round

Total games

Centrino 1.86 Ghz

Fritz9

1 Gb

64Mo

3mn +1s

>4 mn

Gauntlet

300

more Testing conditions :

5 books .ctg + a no book (Norm Pollock idea :D )

Takker tour II , Fritz 9 book, The Turk book, Paradigm, gen18, + secret=no book

for all book optimize (defaults) if I don't talk about the setting

Takker tour II+ Fritz9 = settings = optimization (defaults)
The Turk book settings (Djorge Vidanovic) = min games = 1, up to moves 60 moves, learning to 75%
Paradigm settings (Dr Wael Deeb) = min games = 2
Gen 18 (Norm Pollock) = min games = 8

Chess Engines :

Toga II 1.2.1

date:

21-09-06

Pgn (link to your homepage or here)

booktournament.rar

Tester Homepage:

superchessengine.com

Results:

Rating with Elostat

Rk	LOGO/Book	Author	Mo	W	D	L	% Wh	%Bl	Total %	Pts W	Pts B	Pts /100	elo
1	TAKKER TOUR	Takker/W. Fuller	235	37	52	11	68	58	63	34	29	63	+78
2	Fritz 9 book (commercial)			33	52	15	58	60	59	29	30	59	+53
3		Djordje Vidanovic	26	30	49	21	60	49	54.5	30	24.5	54.5	+27
4		Dr wael Deeb	263	11	25	14	47	49	48	23.5	24.5	48	-11
5		Norm Pollock	265	22	51	27	51	44	47.5	25.5	22	47.5	-13
6	No Book			6	44	50	37	19	28	18.5	9.5	28	-136

    Program                          Elo    +   -   Games   Score   Av.Op.  Draws

  1 Takker Tourbook book           :   78   58  42   100    63.0 %    -14   52.0 %
  2 Fritz 9 book                   :   54   62  41   100    59.0 %     -9   52.0 %
  3 Turk book 1                    :   27   66  42   100    54.5 %     -4   49.0 %
  4 Paradigm 1.0                   :  -10   41  69   100    48.0 %      3   50.0 %
  5 Gen 18                         :  -13   40  68   100    47.5 %      4   51.0 %
  6 Secret book                    : -136   53  52   100    28.0 %     29   44.0 %

Games        :    300 (finished)

White Wins   :     86 (28.7 %)
Black Wins   :     65 (21.7 %)
Draws        :    149 (49.7 %)
Unfinished   :   1198

White Perf.  : 53.5 %
Black Perf.  : 46.5 %

ECO A =     28 Games ( 9.3 %)
ECO B =    199 Games (66.3 %)
ECO C =     19 Games ( 6.3 %)
ECO D =     20 Games ( 6.7 %)
ECO E =     34 Games (11.3 %)

Individual statistics:

1 Takker Tourbook book      :   78  100 (+ 37,= 52,- 11), 63.0 %

Fritz 9 book                  :  20 (+  5,=  9,-  6), 47.5 %
Turk book 1                   :  20 (+  7,= 11,-  2), 62.5 %
Gen 18                        :  20 (+  6,= 12,-  2), 60.0 %
Secret book                   :  20 (+ 10,= 10,-  0), 75.0 %
Paradigm 1.0                  :  20 (+  9,= 10,-  1), 70.0 %

2 Fritz 9 book              :   54  100 (+ 33,= 52,- 15), 59.0 %

Turk book 1                   :  20 (+  5,=  9,-  6), 47.5 %
Gen 18                        :  20 (+  6,= 14,-  0), 65.0 %
Takker Tourbook book          :  20 (+  6,=  9,-  5), 52.5 %
Secret book                   :  20 (+  9,= 10,-  1), 70.0 %
Paradigm 1.0                  :  20 (+  7,= 10,-  3), 60.0 %

3 Turk book 1               :   27  100 (+ 30,= 49,- 21), 54.5 %

Fritz 9 book                  :  20 (+  6,=  9,-  5), 52.5 %
Gen 18                        :  20 (+  7,=  7,-  6), 52.5 %
Takker Tourbook book          :  20 (+  2,= 11,-  7), 37.5 %
Secret book                   :  20 (+  9,= 10,-  1), 70.0 %
Paradigm 1.0                  :  20 (+  6,= 12,-  2), 60.0 %

4 Paradigm 1.0              :  -10  100 (+ 23,= 50,- 27), 48.0 %

Fritz 9 book                  :  20 (+  3,= 10,-  7), 40.0 %
Turk book 1                   :  20 (+  2,= 12,-  6), 40.0 %
Gen 18                        :  20 (+  6,= 11,-  3), 57.5 %
Takker Tourbook book          :  20 (+  1,= 10,-  9), 30.0 %
Secret book                   :  20 (+ 11,=  7,-  2), 72.5 %

5 Gen 18                    :  -13  100 (+ 22,= 51,- 27), 47.5 %

Fritz 9 book                  :  20 (+  0,= 14,-  6), 35.0 %
Turk book 1                   :  20 (+  6,=  7,-  7), 47.5 %
Takker Tourbook book          :  20 (+  2,= 12,-  6), 40.0 %
Secret book                   :  20 (+ 11,=  7,-  2), 72.5 %
Paradigm 1.0                  :  20 (+  3,= 11,-  6), 42.5 %

6 Secret book               : -136  100 (+  6,= 44,- 50), 28.0 %

Fritz 9 book                  :  20 (+  1,= 10,-  9), 30.0 %
Turk book 1                   :  20 (+  1,= 10,-  9), 30.0 %
Gen 18                        :  20 (+  2,=  7,- 11), 27.5 %
Takker Tourbook book          :  20 (+  0,= 10,- 10), 25.0 %
Paradigm 1.0                  :  20 (+  2,=  7,- 11), 27.5 %

Tester comments :

Takker tourbook won again the book tournament .

this is the 3 rd time for Takker Tourbook (1 with Vigi Varkley+ 2 with superchessengine :D ) and good news , this book is free :D

Fritz 9 tournament book is a good book , It finished 2nd ... However , F9 book is not free .It scored well with the 2 colors .

The Turk Book is a excellent book for online tournament , it was doing good against F9 book (52.5%)

Paradigm was neither bad or good with each color ... It could be a solid book for long time control

Gen 18 was doing good, just 0.5 pts behind paradigm !!! No super killer move, it looks like solid for an opening book, even if gen18 with white side is slightly better than with black side

A simple remark with "No Opening book" don't expect to win against a strong opening book :D

Thanks to all opening books authors who spent time to hand tuned the book and to offer free opening book to chess engine fans.

some test results

Testing Condition for each book
Engine Toga II 1.2.1a          Time 2+1   Games 40 for each book

HT 64   EGTB none

GUI Book Option :
Var of Play optimize        Influ.Learn Value Maxi
Learn Strenght 0   Minimum Game 3               Up to Move 35

If your book is better with other GUI book option I will change his setting for next tournament

Rk Book
LOGO
Author Mo W D L % Wh %Bl
Total

%
Pts
W
Pts
B
Pts
/40
elo

TourbookII
TAKKER TOUR
Takker 235 15 17 8 68% 50% 59% 13.5 10 23.5 +45

Turk Book for Rybka 1.0
Djordje Vidanovic 26 13 20 7 73% 43% 58% 14.5 8.5 23 +37

I-Base 2
Dr Wael Deeb
75 12 16 12 52.5% 48% 50% 10.5 9.5 20 -2

HS big Book
Harry Schnapp
130 5 27 8 55% 38% 46% 11 7.5 18.5 -17

Perfect 9.0
Sedat Candaz
62 8 14 18 45% 30% 38% 9 6 15 -63

Tournament result + .pgn to download ( openingbook3.rar )

with bayeselo (from Remy Coulom )

Rank Name Elo + - games score oppo. draws 1 Takker Tourbook book 45 69 67 40 59% -11 43% 2 Turk book 1 37 67 66 40 58% -9 50% 3 I-Base 2 -2 68 68 40 50% 0 40% 4 HS big book -17 63 63 40 46% 4 68% 5 Perfect 9 -63 69 72 40 38% 16 35%

Likelihood-of-superiority matrix (with bayeselo from remy Coulom)

Ta Tu I- HS Pe Takker Tourbook book 56 80 88 97 Turk book 1 43 76 84 96 I-Base 2 19 23 61 86 HS big book 11 15 38 80 Perfect 9 2 3 13 19

Remark :
Same engine, But with different opening book the engine could gain +- 50 elo !!!

Opening book is very important, I f you are outplayed in the opening don't expect to win the game .

with some good lines in your opening book you could beat an engine a little bit stronger ... Depend of the opening .

A good example : Rybka won almost all tournament this year .Deep Shredder 10 engine is 150 elo weaker than Rybka SMP , but the Shredder team managed to beat the Rybka team with a very good opening during the last WCCC at Turin . (an old but very effective one :-D ).

I think This is the game where the Rajlich team lost important pts to the Title...

(that's probably the reason why he didn t win the WCCC )

For me All free book .Ctg are good . Some are good for long time, others for fast time control.

Sample : Testing condition (engine , hash....,nbre detph..optimization .... ,time control,resign score )

If you want we test your book .ctg just contact me to know how to send your book for testing .

FREE OPENNING BOOK .ABK FOR ARENA GUI

You could find almost all books .abk (more than 20 Books) for Arena gui on http://www.playwitharena.com/

I will describe some of them (not all).The best place to go for Arena is their own website , they did a fantastic Job.

Book	Author	Mo	Download
SuperBook	Dann Corbit	92	SuperBook play with Arena
HS Arena Main Book v 7.04	Harry Schnapp	64	Arena Main Book 7.04
Engine book for SOS	Salvatore Spitaleri	57	SOS trabs
Arena engine Book	Denis Grafen	49	AEB
Perfect 7.1	Sedat Candaz	24	PERFECT 7.1
Spezial	Franck Quisinsky	37	spezial
trappole in Apertura	Salvatore Spitaleri	41	Trappole in Apertura
Rybka book for Arena	Dr Wael Deeb	75	Rybka.abk here
Wizard book 4 pro	?? exactachess (if someone know the author I will add his name )	135	wizard4pro.abk

FREE OPENNING BOOK .BIN FOR WINBOARD GUI

You could find almost all books for winboard GUI+winboard engine on Leo Dijkman wonderfull website

http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/

NB: some book could be use only by some engine

The books below could be use for uci engine with Polyglot from Fabien Letouzey

Book	Author	Mo	Download
	To use with polyglot
Performance	Marc Lacrosse	1.5	performance.bin
Varied	Marc lacrosse	1.4	varied.bin
	To use with engine
Naum Book	Alexandar Naumov Naum 1.91, Yace	24	naum_book.bin
Big Book	Homerchess (author ??) for Yace, probably Naum too	107	bigbook.bin dbook.bin

For winboard almost each engine have a book , to see more book for winboard go to http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/ this site is dedicate to winboard engine

These are very good Book , Thanks to all these Fabulous Book Author to make them Free .

If you know some other free Books .CTG,.abk,.bin .... to Test contact us , We will test them .