Author: Marc-Olivier Moisan-Plante
Date: 16:25:54 09/19/05
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On September 19, 2005 at 07:27:06, Günther Simon wrote: >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) Yes, I downloaded your book for The King; I found a link to it in the archives of this forum. >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. Thank you very much for your help!, Marc-Olivier >>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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