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Subject: Re: the quality of different ope opening books

Author: Marc Lacrosse

Date: 22:27:50 03/03/06

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On March 03, 2006 at 17:49:42, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>On March 03, 2006 at 16:34:46, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote:
>
>>I am looking to use the highest quality engine book as one reference in
>>developing my oponing repertoire (e.g, to help be avoid lines that get ? or ?1)
>>
>>What opening book do you recommend. i have chessbase and arena gui.
>>
>>At the moment, i have been using fritz9 book. It seems solid.
>
>
>My suggestion is the Noomen book for Rybka in Chessbase format.  It should be a
>very good reference tool for your purposes.
>
>Djordje

I cannot agree Djordje.

Jeroen's book is certainly a very good book for most engines and particularly
for Rybka performing optimally.

But it is not a good book for a player who intends to build its own repertoire :
it s much to clearly oriented toward avoiding all the openings that most
computers do play badly (and this is not surprising as it is built from 90%
computer games).

Just have a look and you see that Rybka will _never_ play any kind of Benoni,
East-indian, Benko or Pirc opening with this book: there are whole good famed
opening systems that are systematically avoided.

For a player intending to broaden his own repertoire, best solutions are either
building his own ctg book from good players games or buying a product that has
been built this way (like chessbase Powerbooks).

Marc




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