Author: Marc-Olivier Moisan-Plante
Date: 14:07:08 10/01/05
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On October 01, 2005 at 03:11:19, Dann Corbit wrote: >On October 01, 2005 at 02:11:33, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On September 30, 2005 at 19:19:07, Marc-Olivier Moisan-Plante wrote: >> >>>Hi Marc, >>> >>>By curiosity are you the book builder of Fruit 2.1's small_book.bin? >> >>If it is 7/9/2005 and 260K then it was probably me. > >That was the compressed size. I would have to decompress to see the actual >size. > >>>I would like to say that I find this little book quite solid despite its size. >>>In my own testing (done for fun, blitz control, few games - nothing serious >>>here), I rarely see Fruit 2.1 (or other uci-engine that I endowed with that >>>book, doing bad after the book ends). Small but solid. >> >>Computers often do well with reduced books. Over a long period of time against >>a program with learning, problems would develop, however. >>>I could be wrong (because I don't use chessbase interface very often), but I >>>noticed that Fruit 2.1 is doing better with small_book.bin than fruit_ASv3.ctg >>>against Fritz 8 (again maybe I don't have enough games here to say something >>>serious - this is just my impression). >>> >>>An exeption might be the following line: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 Nc6 4. Be3 >>>Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. d5 Na5 7.Nf3 Bd6 8. Qa4 bd7 9. Qa5 a6!? and then white (i.e. >>>fruit 2.1) is bookless against Prodeo (which might have one of the best >>>"amateur" book - if we agree that Prodeo is an "amateur" program). This is a >>>tricky line. >>> >>>PS: (If your are the author..) Is the original pgn from small_book.bin >>>available? (I don't expect so.) >> >>This is the PGN I used. I do not know if this is the stuff you are after >>though. >>http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new-approach/super.pgn.bz2 Thank you for the link. I'll certainly look at the file. >>>Thanks and good luck with Fruit 2.2,
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