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[Sedat Canbaz]

Dear Chess Friends,

As usually, I'm very pleased to announce that,
Here is another new series of book competitions..

Be aware of that,
Again all books under Classic cond. (NON-NNUE)
That means with the strongest engine: Cfish (for all)
In this tour, only public books of 2024 are entered,
Later there is a possibility to be entered more...

Btw, here are the current standings, playing at 2m+1s:
And as we see, OPTIMUS's start is impressive so far...
Tunafish book is 2nd ...Castigo is 3rd... sure we are
Just in beginning... let's see after more games...

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Rank Name                          Elo     +/-   Games   Score    Draw 
   1 OPTIMUS 2401                   40      36      52   55.8%   84.6% 
   2 Tunafish                       22      42      48   53.1%   81.3% 
   3 Castigo                        15      41      47   52.1%   83.0% 
   4 Pampa                           0      42      46   50.0%   82.6% 
   5 LesChats 280124                 0      39      50   50.0%   84.0% 
   6 Orange                         -8      33      46   48.9%   89.1% 
   7 Cevdet 120124                 -21      46      49   46.9%   77.6% 
   8 Yoruba                        -56      50      44   42.0%   75.0% 

191 of 1400 games finished.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL

[Sedat Canbaz]

UPDATE 2

And here are the latest standings (after 972 games...)

Tunafish (by Tanick Ramz) is managed to take the lead..nice..
Where OPTIMUS (by Roger Constantinesco) is currently 2nd,
And for the moment 3rd is Castigo book (by Angel Morano)

Note also that,
Champion tittle will be determined after 1000 games (per player)
That means in same time, there is a long way to go....

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Rank Name                          Elo     +/-   Games   Score    Draw 
   1 Tunafish                       30      21     243   54.3%   77.4% 
   2 OPTIMUS 2401                   20      19     245   52.9%   81.2% 
   3 Castigo                        10      19     245   51.4%   80.8% 
   4 Cevdet 120124                   0      22     242   50.0%   74.4% 
   5 Pampa                          -4      21     242   49.4%   77.3% 
   6 LesChats 280124                -6      19     242   49.2%   80.2% 
   7 Orange                        -13      23     243   48.1%   73.3% 
   8 Yoruba                        -37      25     242   44.6%   67.8% 

972 of 1400 games finished..

[Sedat Canbaz]

UPDATE 3

Current Leader: OPTIMUS - Congratulations to Roger Constantinesco!

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Rank Name                          Elo     +/-   Games   Score    Draw 
   1 OPTIMUS 2401                   36      16     350   55.1%   79.4% 
   2 Tunafish                       25      17     350   53.6%   76.9% 
   3 Castigo                        -1      17     350   49.9%   77.4% 
   4 Pampa                          -4      18     350   49.4%   76.6% 
   5 LesChats 280124                -4      16     350   49.4%   79.4% 
   6 Cevdet 120124                  -5      18     350   49.3%   75.1% 
   7 Orange                        -10      18     350   48.6%   74.9% 
   8 Yoruba                        -37      20     350   44.7%   69.4% 

1400 of 1400 games finished

Note also that,
The tour is still active...e.g as next players will be
The World Champions books too !

Yes...a similar book championship is never seen before...
Let's see what will be the influences with past and present...

But there is one true,
It will be very exciting tour for sure !)

Greetings

[Sedat Canbaz]

UPDATE 4

SCCT Book Championship LXVIII's page has been created:
https://sites.google.com/site/computers ... book-cs-68

And soon as possible a BIG update is coming....

And please stay tuned..

[OrgZ]

Thanks Sedat!

[Homayoun]

Thanks Sedat!

+1
And congratulations to champions.

[Desvelemosafrica]

Thank you sedat, for the tour and the retro tour with old engines. Nice Job.

[Sedat Canbaz]

Not at all dear friends

Note also that (in the next tour update,)
Exc. that the World Champions books are entered...
I realized to include more book players...
In other words, more than 50 books are testing...
And 'all' in a very short time...

About 9-times Champion (Cfish 030820)
Yes..it is old.. but still one of World's strongest engines !
Even I can not see any better...I mean stronger...
If anyone has a different, better idea..just let me know please )
Cfish's size just 207 KB ..and once more we noticed that
The power is not in 'size', but in 'move'...
Sure as same words are going for opening books as well!

Meanwhile, just one more example,
DON Hercules 3 book is even less than 1 MB,
And it has been created in less than 10 Min
But I think that you know about DON's performance...

Yes..In this tour...we have many other great participants too
And I am not going to count all, because I may miss some..
But CASTIGO, LESSCHATS, OPTIMUS, TUNAFISH etc. seems
As one of them...!!

And Very likely tomorrow will be the BIG update!

Greetings

[Sedat Canbaz]

Thank you sedat, for the tour and the retro tour with old engines. Nice Job.

Btw,
Next time time, can you please use BIG capital letter 'S'
Thanks in advance

Or maybe your keyboard key's capital letter S is broken ?)

[Sedat Canbaz]

Breaking News - 15.02.2024:
OPTIMUS OPTIMUS OPTIMUS, Note that via this tittle: OPTIMUS series
Managed to be 6 times as Champ, really just great..one of BEST records!
Btw DON Hercules series managed 6-times too...and what does it mean?
Really a lot...at least in my eyes... another superior performances come by
Tunafish, LesChats, Pampa etc. you may know to be on Top vs so many players
Is not soft touch !! and without to not mention this I can't as well for example:
If you say...my book will manage to be Champ with NNUE help..it's all right)
But via help, every fool can play stronger chess..as most important..without!
I can talk more, but what will be changed.. ?) ok... maybe will be changed..)
In other words, everyone had many chances.. I mean in previous NN tours..
But where we noticed that mostly Winners were same Top book authors..
Forget everything..DON as 6 months old openings was previous Champ!
Sure there is nothing impossible...but before, I suggest harder, harder work!!.
This is also true that..ff you do not like my work..,will be sad..but in this case,
I suggest at NON-SCCT results..that's all..because my target is mainly for fun
These guys often prefer to say..Raubfish is bad, poor..or Cfish is old etc etc.
Enough so much complains..really...and if I will see again for no any reason
Complains.. I will stay far from these authors... this will be the best solution!
Ah one thing more, when I will have more free time...I hope to share my rest
Created books..ok, that's all for now..as usual, thanks a lot for your interest !)

Current Champion: OPTIMUS -My Congratulations to Roger Constantinesco!


For Latest Standings:
https://sites.google.com/site/computers ... book-cs-68

Best,
Sedat