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Subject: Re: Engine tournaments and own book

Author: Graham Banks

Date: 11:19:01 08/29/05

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On August 29, 2005 at 12:26:30, Dario Zuccolotto wrote:

>I am setting up my own chess tournament with many of the free engines available
>and some commercial ones too. I have a couple of questions that perhaps more
>experienced "tournament masters" can give some advice on.
>
>1)Most of the engine tournaments that are available seem to use the opening
>books that come with the engine. I was wondering; if I use a single book, like
>the Arena mainbook (my tournament is being played using Arena GUI), would this
>be fair on all engines?

>Dario

You will get split opinion on your first question. Of course it is preferred for
each program to use its own book, but I also see nothing wrong with using a
universal book for all the programs in a tournament. Now wsit back and watch the
sparks fly!

Graham.



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