Author: David Dahlem
Date: 09:03:24 07/25/04
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On July 25, 2004 at 11:51:30, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >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 Hi Kurt There are several .abk books available for download at http://www.playwitharena.com/directory/user.htm#books I think the wizzard book by Wael Deeb may be the best, from what i've read in various forum messages. :-) Regards Dave
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