What Opening Books performs the best under the Arena GUI ?

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Re: What Opening Books performs the best under the Arena GUI

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Re: What Opening Books performs the best under the Arena GUI

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hgm wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:
Dr.Wael Deeb wrote: Thanks buddy,yes,everything is ok,I hope the same for you and your family :D
.abk regards :P ,
Dr.D
Yep - recovering from a day of piggery! :wink:
The day after Christmas Day is called Boxing Day here - I think that follows British tradition.
Over here Christmass is simply a two-day event. 8-)
Whoa - double the financial pain! :wink:
Have an enjoyable Christmas HG. 8-)
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Re: What Opening Books performs the best under the Arena GUI

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pichy wrote:
Le Fou numerique wrote:
pichy wrote:Can different people post their results of matches performed with different Opening Books under the Arena GUI. Harry's latest Opening Book is very good, but I would like to hear other people that had good results with other Books.
Hi,

HS-Book.abk used in Arena 2.0:

Menu: Book - Manage - Move selection

Priority -------------+13
Number of games-------+12
Win percentage---------+12
Select:"Move with priority 0 nerver played"


Regards,
Patrick
Patrick I just finished a match Thinker 5.4 using your settings with HS-Book.abk Versus Rybka 2.2 with Rybka 2 opening Book and the match ended 19.5 to 10.5 in favour of Rybka 2.2.


Now I trying with this settings:

Priority -------------+10
Number of games-------+10
Win percentage---------+10
Select:"Move with priority 0 nerver played"[/i]

The score ended :


Arena tournament

Rank Engine Score Ry SP S-B
1 Rybka 2.2 32 bit 15.5/30 · ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· 011=101=1010=01=01110=00101100
2 SP-x86-Passive-Thinker 14.5/30 100=010=0101=10=10001=11010011 · ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ··


30 games played / Tournament is finished

Tournament start: 2008.12.25, 12:52:57
Latest update: 2008.12.25, 19:22:05
Site/ Country: JORGE, United States
Level: Tournament Game in 5 Minutes
Hardware: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 1200 MHz with 512 MB Memory
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
PGN-File: C:\Program Files\Arena\Arena.pgn
Table created with: Arena 2.0
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Re: What Opening Books performs the best under the Arena GUI

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Graham Banks wrote:
hgm wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:
Dr.Wael Deeb wrote: Thanks buddy,yes,everything is ok,I hope the same for you and your family :D
.abk regards :P ,
Dr.D
Yep - recovering from a day of piggery! :wink:
The day after Christmas Day is called Boxing Day here - I think that follows British tradition.
Over here Christmass is simply a two-day event. 8-)
Whoa - double the financial pain! :wink:
Have an enjoyable Christmas HG. 8-)
Actually I would say, double the weight gain !! :D
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Re: What Opening Books performs the best under the Arena GUI

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Indeed. One day to feast with your own parents / sibblings, the other with your in-laws! :lol:
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Re: Rybka 2.2 without Books Vs Thinker 5.4 with HS-Book.abk

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pichy wrote:
pichy wrote:
Le Fou numerique wrote:
pichy wrote:Can different people post their results of matches performed with different Opening Books under the Arena GUI. Harry's latest Opening Book is very good, but I would like to hear other people that had good results with other Books.
Hi,

HS-Book.abk used in Arena 2.0:

Menu: Book - Manage - Move selection

Priority -------------+13
Number of games-------+12
Win percentage---------+12
Select:"Move with priority 0 nerver played"


Regards,
Patrick
Patrick I just finished a match Thinker 5.4 using your settings with HS-Book.abk Versus Rybka 2.2 with Rybka 2 opening Book and the match ended 19.5 to 10.5 in favour of Rybka 2.2.


Now I trying with this settings:

Priority -------------+10
Number of games-------+10
Win percentage---------+10
Select:"Move with priority 0 nerver played"[/i]

The score ended :


Arena tournament

Rank Engine Score Ry SP S-B
1 Rybka 2.2 32 bit 15.5/30 · ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· 011=101=1010=01=01110=00101100
2 SP-x86-Passive-Thinker 14.5/30 100=010=0101=10=10001=11010011 · ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ··


30 games played / Tournament is finished

Tournament start: 2008.12.25, 12:52:57
Latest update: 2008.12.25, 19:22:05
Site/ Country: JORGE, United States
Level: Tournament Game in 5 Minutes
Hardware: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 1200 MHz with 512 MB Memory
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
PGN-File: C:\Program Files\Arena\Arena.pgn
Table created with: Arena 2.0

I decided to test Rybka 2.2 without Opening book versus one of the strongest free engine Thinker 5.4 using HS-Book.abk and to my surprise Rybka v2.2 won the 30 round match :shock:

Engine Score Ry SP S-B
1: Rybka 2.2 32 bit 16.0/30 ······························ 011=0=10110=1=1=1=0=0=011=100= 224.00
2: SP-x86-Passive-Thinker 14.0/30 100=1=01001=0=0=0=1=1=100=011= ······························ 224.00

30 games played / Tournament is finished
Name of the tournament: Arena tournament
Site/ Country: JORGE, United States
Level: Tournament Game in 5 Minutes
Hardware: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 1200 MHz with 512 MB Memory
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
PGN-File: C:\Program Files\Arena\Arena.pgn
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