Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 08:51:30 07/25/04
Olivier Deville wrote me that he never intended to provide a book for Arena and that he was just asked for a game collection for the "pgn random" feature of the Arena GUI. Olivier had never cared to test the "o-deville.abk" and the book settings are as follows: Minimal conditions to play the move: - Minimal number of games [0] - Minimal won games [0] - Win percentage white [0] - Win percentage black [0] Use book up to halfmove [30] And with these settings this book also plays after 1.e4 the move a6(?) with a probability of 145 and this is the third best move behind 1...c5 and 1...e5. Or another preferred line is 1.e4 Nc6. I could give a lot of further examples. I think that List512 may heavily be handicapped with this book and are now searching (very urgently) for a good and tested Arena book or the best (tested) settings of the "o-deville.abk". Anyway I have no time to create a book of my own or to do much work. If I can't get the desired thing in the next 12 hours we shall be forced to remove List512 from our tournament and to replace this strong engine by another winboard program having an own book. Kurt
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