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[Sedat Canbaz]

Breaking News (07.10.2023):
The current championship ended too...congrats and many thanks to all !!
As reason, another new exciting book competitions are coming very soon..
Ok... that's all for now.and please stay tuned...more information very soon

Public Book Champion OPTIMUS Congrats to Roger Constantinesco!
Private Book Champion: DON Hercules - Congrats to Vasid Chouhan!

For Final Standings:
https://sites.google.com/site/computers ... t-bn-cs-16

GAMES:
https://mega.nz/file/S1xlkJTQ#hGeZI0jDD ... Bm1toXX3Kw


Best,
Sedat

Many thanks Mr. Sedat. It is difficult to manage book competition tournament to be exciting as the engines competition (it’s just my personal opinion).But you did it very well. I really enjoyed from this competition. Great work. Also congratulations to winners too.
Best regards

Dear Mr. Homayoun

Thanks as uısual, for replay and kind words...)

What I can say as firstly (based on my experience),
Engine testing are much easier... than book testings!
A lot of details...e.g book settings, frequent updates,
Sharing games (in case of request..) etc.
Btw, one mistake via book settings etc. all is gone...

On other hand
Frankly, if you are new in book testings...
These tours can be hard to be organized..but
I am so much accustomed..since many years..so
They are became easy to be organized...sure,
I mean especially if all books will be under Cutechess
But If under Fritz GUI..too complicated...because then
I have to use and run so many GUIs at same time...

Greetings )

[Sedat Canbaz]

Breaking News (08.10.2023):
A new, but very hard championship started...and latest results coming soon...
This time tour's main target will be to check pure/real opening book strength!
You may know, as NNUE, many of the critical weak lines may perform better,
But when NON-NNUE: then situation is totally different...as usual 'best' wins..
The current tours will be based on 3 Leagues: Second, Super and Ultimate!
Second and Super Leagues will be played by Cfish 030820 ( NON-NNUE)
Where Ultimate tour will be played by Raubfish X48c3 SC (NNUE enabled)
Both mentioned tourneys will be in qualification mode e.g 2nd League will
Consist 3 constant Champs books, which are tuned to prefer only Winners
Opening lines (in SCCT tours, mainly 2020, 2021 and some of 2022 year..)
In short, my created Champs books are based on old-dated trend openings..
Sure no free time to coıunt all, but these Winners are mainly Angel Morano,
Vasid Chouhan, Cevdet Sarı etc. ok that's all for now more info very soon!

For more details:
https://sites.google.com/site/computers ... book-cs-66

By the way,
Any known author interested can submit any opening at any time..


Best,
Sedat

[OrgZ]

Breaking News (07.10.2023):
The current championship ended too...congrats and many thanks to all !!
As reason, another new exciting book competitions are coming very soon..
Ok... that's all for now.and please stay tuned...more information very soon

Public Book Champion OPTIMUS Congrats to Roger Constantinesco!
Private Book Champion: DON Hercules - Congrats to Vasid Chouhan!

For Final Standings:
https://sites.google.com/site/computers ... t-bn-cs-16

GAMES:
https://mega.nz/file/S1xlkJTQ#hGeZI0jDD ... Bm1toXX3Kw


Best,
Sedat

Congrats to the winners

[Sedat Canbaz]

Meanwhile,
Here are new strength, candidate testings,
Played mainly for new coming book tours..

As engines, which are mainly small in size!
Due to too complicated and meaningless if
Using such as 40MB-100MB for each book player!!
Just imagine..100 players x 50 MB = 5 GB
via Cfish engine: 100 players x 200 KB = 20 MB

And as usual, once we noticed that,
Cfish 030820 is still the KING..in case of NON-NNUE!
Not only strongest, but even not so Drawish as well
What does it mean.. ? a lot... !) if not clear,
This CF version is already more than 3 years old...
And as usual I say, not always newer/bigger are better..!

Forget everything..
I tested many SF-BASED ONES, but I cancelled their test..
Reason...minus plus 5% -10% higher draws..very strange!
On other hand, I can understand if they are stronger...

Ok.. here is the ranking played at Blitz (2m+1s),
Balsa openings for all (with alternate colors):

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Rank    Player                   Elo   Games   Draw
1	Cfish 030820 Def	2377    1000   76%
2	SlowChess 2.9		2375	1326   75%
3	Stockfish XIr4 Def	2375	1100   78%
4	Cfish 030820 C40        2372	2028   73%
5	Koivisto 7.14		2365	1516   71% 
6	Brainfish 240720 Def	2367	2033   78%
7	Clover 4		2364	1202   72% 
8	CF-EXT 291120 Def	2361	1358   75%
9	Stockfish XIr4 C40   	2360	1920   75%
10	Cfish11 x86_x64 C40	2360	1731   75%
11	Zeus 9.4 C40   		2358	1700   73%
12	Zeus 9.4 Def		2357	 600   80%
13	Eman 5.62 Def		2352	 700   80% 
14	CiChess 170720 C40	2350	 700   78% 
15	SlowChess 2.8		2350	 600   74% 
16	CF-EXT 291120 C40   	2349	 700   73%
17	Cfish11 x86_x64 Def	2348	 457   77%
18	Arasan 24		2344	 700   72% 
19	Koivisto 241122		2332	 600   67% 

Note. Calculated (as default) by ChessBase, so Elo points are too low!

Greetings

[Sedat Canbaz]

Breaking News (08.10.2023):
1st of all, my congratulations to all qualified authors books..and unfortunately,
Some of the opening books were not so lucky..or some are not tuned so well
And after checking the latest results of current Second League..it's clear that,
Many successful books could not qualify...it seems the old Champs lines are
Not soft touch and still not dead..Btw, a few more words over DON Hercules:
It's based/tuned vs newer trend openings so against older trend ones.suffer!
But via importing DON's other played games...DON Hercules 2 is managed..
Btw, interesting, the very old-dated DON-B book is managed to qualify..nice!
Yes..under these cond. not easy...and here strongest ones say the last word!
About the Leading books: SENITEL, LesChats, OPTIMUS, CachoSCCT etc.
They proved to be so strong...as NNUE and NON-NNUE, just superb score!
Sure we are just in beginning..let's see what will be the next entry results ?)

Second League Leader: SENTINEL 2 Congrats to Roger Constantinesco!

For Latest Standings:
https://sites.google.com/site/computers ... book-cs-66

Greetings )

[Sedat Canbaz]

Breaking News (09.10.2023):
Another new update, half qualified, half could not..again and again Hubble
Was not so lucky...really many times Mr. Mehmet's book is quite close..but...
On other hand, the good news is that Mr. Angel Morano plus Mr. Hurnavich
New books are qualified..note also that only CachoSCCT opt will be played...
I mean older one CachoSCCT will be replaced with the new updated vers.
And as we see, when the books are super strong...success is no accident!
Btw, Guzelkiz even very old-dated (like DON-B) is managed..but no surprise,
Since exactly the same Guzelkiz is the Champion of B/N VII Championship
Note also that I've managed to start Super League as well...good luck to all!

For 2nd League Standings:
https://sites.google.com/site/computers ... book-cs-66

[Sedat Canbaz]

Update

Super League's LIVE Ranking:

Btw, Red Dragon book (by Ian Hurnavich) has a good start.. nice !!
Sure the competition is just in the beginning...CachoSCCT opt or
Any other may overcome in the next rounds...who knows ?!

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Rank Name                          Elo     +/-   Games   Score    Draw 
   1 Red Dragon                     29      36      71   54.2%   80.3% 
   2 CachoSCCT opt                  24      43      73   53.4%   71.2% 
   3 Breaker 1.0                    20      36      70   52.9%   80.0% 
   4 Pimienta                       14      36      73   52.1%   79.5% 
   5 DON Hercules 2                 14      36      74   52.0%   79.7% 
   6 DON-B                          10      36      71   51.4%   80.3% 
   7 OPTIMUS 4                       9      29      74   51.4%   86.5% 
   8 Zaytsev                         5      21      72   50.7%   93.1% 
   9 OlisFish 260923                 5      39      72   50.7%   76.4% 
  10 Everest 300923                  5      42      74   50.7%   71.6% 
  11 V by Kerveros                   0      33      72   50.0%   83.3% 
  12 ORIONPAX2                       0      39      70   50.0%   77.1% 
  13 HCanFree Upd                    0      40      73   50.0%   75.3% 
  14 HCan Upd                        0      32      73   50.0%   83.6% 
  15 Goi forum                      -5      27      75   49.3%   88.0% 
  16 1337chess X                    -5      34      72   49.3%   81.9% 
  17 SARI 300923                    -9      29      74   48.6%   86.5% 
  18 Chucaro 4 Upd2                -10      26      73   48.6%   89.0% 
  19 ShadRach                      -10      30      72   48.6%   86.1% 
  20 LesChats 071023               -14      30      74   48.0%   85.1% 
  21 FireOnBIN                     -25      39      71   46.5%   76.1% 
  22 SENTINEL 2                    -28      31      74   45.9%   83.8% 
  23 Guzelkiz 220522               -29      36      71   45.8%   80.3% 

834 of 5060 games finished.

[OrgZ]

may the best book win

[Sedat Canbaz]

may the best book win

[Sedat Canbaz]

Breaking News of Super League - 09.10.2023:
DON DON DON...again managed as Number One..really just amazing!
Yes in same time that means, The Father (Vasid Chouhan) proves again
DON used openings are too dangerous, especially vs new trend ones!!
Btw, this is also true that if I course a little bit over.. then how happy I'm
Sure, the first Champion is still not so clear, Red Dragon, SENTINEL etc.
Are serious candidates to be next Number One, in the end, time will tell..
Note also that any Book Leader (after 500 games) will be titled Champ!
And Top 10 (with highest points) will be qualified into planning Ultimate..

Super League's Leader DON Hercules 2 - Congrats to Vasid Chouhan!

For Latest Standings:
https://sites.google.com/site/computers ... s-66-super

Best,
Sedat