Anyone tried using the chessbase Silver Suite for matches?

[notyetagm]

Anyone tried using the chessbase Silver Openings Suite for matches?

Article is here -> http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6147

[yanquis1972]

the author is a poster to this site, & in fact debuted it here, so yes.

it seems to be a very well put together suite & it's my preferred one atm, though i only sporadically run eng-eng matches.

[benkidwell]

Yes, I got it from this very forum, of course, and I use it very heavily. I prefer to watch engines play as much of the game as possible computationally while I study each engine's analysis and PV, but starting matches from the initial position rarely produces good chess. The Silver suite is perfect as a springboard for dynamic, interesting games that reveal a lot about what different engines like and don't like. The other method I use is using polyglot opening books but capped at a max of 6-8 moves. This is ok, but the results are not as interesting as the carefully selected positions in the suite.

I'm glad to see this mentioned, because I've been using the Silver suite so much and this is a good place to give a THANK YOU to the author, should he happen to see this thread. The gambit suite is also great.

[Albert Silver]

Yes, I got it from this very forum, of course, and I use it very heavily. I prefer to watch engines play as much of the game as possible computationally while I study each engine's analysis and PV, but starting matches from the initial position rarely produces good chess. The Silver suite is perfect as a springboard for dynamic, interesting games that reveal a lot about what different engines like and don't like. The other method I use is using polyglot opening books but capped at a max of 6-8 moves. This is ok, but the results are not as interesting as the carefully selected positions in the suite.

I'm glad to see this mentioned, because I've been using the Silver suite so much and this is a good place to give a THANK YOU to the author, should he happen to see this thread. The gambit suite is also great.

Thank you, I'm glad you like it.

[M ANSARI]

Yes Albert great stuff and keep up the good work. Look forward to future releases.

[djbl]

please could somebody explain how to install and use this with arena.

[djbl]

actually i have it all sorted out now. thanks anyway. it was just like installing/loading an opening book basically.