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Subject: Re: Urgent: ATM 2004 / Book for List512 (or removing List from tournament)

Author: Daniel Shawul

Date: 00:15:28 07/26/04

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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

Hi
DanChess uses the book [by default] provided by Oliver.
And it is leading in the ATL leage C here
http://f27.parsimony.net/forum67213/messages/1964.htm
I had  e4 a6?? problem for a long time. After discussion with Oliver,he
had removed two games which were causing this problems. Never had
any other bad lines then after.

best
daniel


>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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