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Bluefish XI-LP FD with tactical=2 and defensive=off changes the engine into a churning, frothing, tactical chess monster. When run against the TTT1 test suite, Bluefish was already the leader by a huge margin. Adding Tactical=2; defensive=off turns it into something fearsome. Notice that the third ...

And, weren't the CCRL slow ratings 'adjusted' by 100 Elo points downward a few years ago? Indeed they were lowered by 100. There was a lot of noise at the time that the ratings were too high. The CCRL ratings may have seemed high relative to other rating lists, but that didn't mean that the other l...

A couple of points to Larry: The time controls were not exactly what we'd now call 'rapid' on the early CCRL hardware. And, weren't the CCRL slow ratings 'adjusted' by 100 Elo points downward a few years ago? That means the CCRL ratings were higher across the board by that much for a few years after...

Thanks, Ed. I kind of knew about those, but I really wanted to create a really small, shallow book for Nezh. Not just for variety's sake, but to play the first couple of moves rather quickly so the opponent would not be tempted to abort the game while waiting for the first move. I tried to leave out...

Thx, I'll check those out.

In the meantime, I also found this thread:

https://www.chess2u.com/t13704-make-bin ... newsletter

Lately I've made a habit of answering my own posts. 8-) Thanks to Steve Maughan's video, linked below, I was able to create my own bin book with polyglot and edit it using ScidvsPC. The process was not entirely clean, as I've had to add some lines back through the GUI, which were left out by the pol...

I don't have much experience with .bin books.

I remember that Winboard allows the editing of (most) .bin books. Are there other/better ways to edit such books? How does one create a .bin book in the first place?

Thanks,
Carl

Very telling is move 10, where White castles, while Black responds with Kf8!, keeping the Rook where it belongs on the semi-open h-file. This proved decisive. Pretty basic you might say, but a 2300+ human opponent walked right into it.

A new blitz game (5 0) played today vs a strong human: [Event "Casual Blitz game"] [Site "https://lichess.org/cGMhvfNQ"] [Date "2020.05.07"] [Round "-"] [White "Z3NS"] [Black "Nezh-BOT"] [Result "0-1"] [UTCDate "2020.05.07"] [UTCTime "18:07:26"] [WhiteElo "2363"] [BlackElo "2551"] [BlackTitle "BOT"]...

Not to rain too much on the CyberNezh Parade but of course needed to take a bit deeper look...has CyberNezh played some match games vs Open Tal? What was the result?... Thx AR :) :wink: 400-500 Elo difference in strength. :) OpenTal was designed (by me) for patzers (like me) to train against, while...