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Subject: Re: Bookthinker or PolyGlot Book available?

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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