Chess Engines with Opening Book
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Chess Engines with Opening Book
Besides BrainFish are there any other free PC chess engines that contain their own opening book!
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Re: Chess Engines with Opening Book
Of the 90 engines that I currently use, only the following 21 do not have their own opening book.
Andscacs, Booot, Colossus, Discocheck, Ethereal, Fire, Frenzee, Gull
Hakkapeliitta, Houdini, Ivanhoe, Jonny, Laser, List, MinkoChess
Protector, Rybka, Senpai, Stockfish, Toga, Wasp
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Re: Chess Engines with Opening Book
At least Rybka, Stockfish, Booot and Jonny had an own opening book at several points in time.Colin-G wrote: ↑Thu Oct 25, 2018 12:43 pmOf the 90 engines that I currently use, only the following 21 do not have their own opening book.
Andscacs, Booot, Colossus, Discocheck, Ethereal, Fire, Frenzee, Gull
Hakkapeliitta, Houdini, Ivanhoe, Jonny, Laser, List, MinkoChess
Protector, Rybka, Senpai, Stockfish, Toga, Wasp
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Re: Chess Engines with Opening Book
I think my post was misleading, sorry.
What I meant to say was, are there any other PC chess engines that have an opening book within their .exe file.
What I meant to say was, are there any other PC chess engines that have an opening book within their .exe file.
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Re: Chess Engines with Opening Book
CT800 has that. About 12,000 unique positions, 22,000 unique moves. Transpositions are recognised.
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Re: Chess Engines with Opening Book
This is not really accurate.
The Cerebellum book used by Brainfish is external. It is not part of the executable. It is just an advanced book made by mini-maxing a huge pile of chess data.
It can and does get replaced frequently, and you do not have to recompile to replace the book.
It is a more sophisticated format than polyglot books (and the data is better than most polyglot books), but I still consider it to be rather primitive.
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Re: Chess Engines with Opening Book
Thanks everyone, I will try Spike and CT800
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Re: Chess Engines with Opening Book
Spike's book can be disabled via the config file.
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