Author: jefkaan
Date: 13:09:21 12/24/05
while there's still seems some sort of Rybka hype here, even when the final version, with egtb and so on isnt out yet (poor programmer, he will be overloaded with emails), it might be not such a bad idea to to a little book tournament, which i might do on the new Arena 1.99 (ie to do some beta testing for this version as well). the idea will be to compare different Arena books, only using two or 3 top-engines, but in every case with different books, ie. the Schnapps book, the corbit book, maybe the 'perfect' book, and of course my own book (winning_with_e4). a month ago already experimented wich such a tourn, but found out in real games that the endgame can make lot's of differences, eg. as Fruit 2.2 is stronger in the middle/endgame transition than eg. Shredder 9. so.. until 1/1/200 i'll take my time, sit down relax and watch, and let the games be played, all at reasonable slow settings lets say 20/5 or so. engines available on my comp will be S9 (columbus_ egg settings) free versions of Fruit (2.1), Rybka (beta), Zappa (1.1); guess that will be enough; where possible i might include the option of using the special engine_book, if availabe (i''ll see). while we know Fruit 2.2 is stronger than S9, i will give S9 egtb acces in this tourn, whereas Fruit 2.1 and the other programs dont have this option (yet). this will not only give an idea about relative importance of engines, books, but also about using egtb or not. and of course i will keep the games for those of you will be interested (if you have any suggestions how to adapt my tourn settings i will be open to them but you have to quick, as i'll start the tourn after 2nd xmas day, and intend to let it play a *lot* of games) (hope my comp won't crash thereafter then..) best wishes for the new year anyway, Jef
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