Author: Graham Banks
Date: 20:21:43 01/22/05
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On January 22, 2005 at 20:34:48, John Merlino wrote: >On January 22, 2005 at 18:42:01, Graham Banks wrote: > >>On January 22, 2005 at 18:27:22, DB wrote: >> >>>How much stronger, if any, will CM 10K play under the Fritz, or other GUIs with >>>a better opening book, then under its Own GUI? >> >>CM9000 and CM10th Edtion both have exactly the same opening book and it's of a >>better quality than previous versions. >>I'm using CM10th Cobra with its own opening book under Fritz and it's doing just >>fine: >> >>16.5 - Fritz 8 Bilbao >>15.5 - Deep Junior 9 >>13.5 - CM10th Cobra >>13.0 - Shredder 8 >>12.5 - Gandalf 6.0 >>12.0 - CM9000 Minotaur 2 >>12.0 - Ruffian 2.1.0 >>9.0 - Hiarcs 9 > >Indeed, I spent a fair amount of time compiling the default CM9000 book (as well >as all of the GM books), and it is definitely better than the one in the >previous versions. > >However, it is still not in the same league as books that are "authored" and >fine-tuned for the particular engine in question. The book that Johan uses for >The King in tournaments is far different from the one available in Chessmaster. > >jm Your effort wasn't that bad John! I've been happy with it in Chessbase format to date and it definitely hasn't handicapped CM9000 Minotaur 2 or CM10th Cobra. Back to the original question, the Wizard 4 book in Arena compiled by Wael Deeb is particularly well used by CM. Graham.
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