Author: Günther Simon
Date: 04:27:06 09/19/05
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On September 19, 2005 at 03:22:33, Marc-Olivier Moisan-Plante wrote: >Does anyone have a bookthinker.dat or polyglot book to share? That would only be >for my private testing (i.e. done for fun - not serious and not published).I >would keep it private. > >I downloaded a bookthinker.dat book by G.Simon I believe. The book is just too >good for testing engines, i.e. it goes often to 80 plies, so if two different >engines are using it, it goes too often right into the endgame (I think the book >is very good otherwise, i.e. to help one engine to have good results,but it is >not designed to test engines - I'm looking for 20-30 plies ideally). > That's right, if you want to use a ThinkerBook for several programs, it must be shrinked down in the depth, otherwise they would follow blindly all book lines 'till the end. For this reason I use different books in case I want to do tests like you do above(which I do very rarely BTW, as I normally use original books). I guess you downloaded an older version of my Kings(or Shredder) book? (IIRC it was sth like 60 plies) I will mail you one or 2 books later this day, which should fit for your purposes plus my pair of makebook/bookthinker, thus you can work out some own books again too. >As it is, I can't match up Scorpio, the King and/or Jonny as I'd liked (all >using G.Simon book right now). I'm using winboard and GalisWTMB so that I can't >use .ctg or .abk books (unless I change my mind about winboard, but ideally I >would keep it if I can get opening books). > >Also on my wish list: I would like to have the right version of makebook.exe >(from Thinker) in order to make my own opening book for some engines. If someone >could e-mail it to me I would be very pleased as well. > >Thanks a lot for those spending time about this, , > >Sincerely, > >Marc-Olivier, > >I'm sorry to ask so such in the same post, but again help about any of these >topics would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Guenther Simon
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