Nightlife.ctg

[Eduard]

New versions of my books:
https://solistachess.jimdosite.com/books/

[Eduard]

PlayChess.com live picture: Silentfish 3.1 with Solista Attack v7.3.ctg 2x on top:


(Silentfish 3.1 is new private engine by Solista)

[Eelco de Groot]

It has been many, many years since I visited last Chessbase Engine rooms, forgive me if I paint a wrong picture of it, but it may help Peter to realize these are ever more book wars, apart from occasional people just playing for fun or testing a new engine maybe. Eduard has explained here in Talkchess that even with two cores it is possible to draw against guys with "super computers", so to speak. If you have the right and up to date opening book for that. .... And if most people use one of your books, then most games are automatically useful for testing and maintenance, by Eduard for instance. There is a catch I think, you are responsible for collecting all those games, for a while it was actively discouraged to even collect them yourself. So even with the hulp of tools I imagine it is very labour intensive... This just to explain for Peter here a bit life on the server...

Thanks for explanation, Eelco – I had no clue.
Today I decided to look at Eduard’s posted games starting with 1. E4 Nc6 2. D4 d5 3. E5 Bf5 4. C3 f6 which certainly looks dubious to my eyes.
So I thought: OK, it should be easiest to just download this nightlife thingy to see how this is supposed to work.
To realize only then - that he is in fact SELLING these books .

Hello Peter, true but Eduard has also made available some books you can try without payment just to try out perhaps, I have from Eduard Fette Brezel and Fette Brezel X (wide book). Those are .bin books for SCID GUI or Winboard, suitable for Crafty or Rebel maybe? See http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&p=918331



And Eduard also promised a new version of Solista ENG 2024 that is a Chessbase book. This year, see his download page! I tried to open my copy, version 1 with ChessX but ran into some problems, it sees the book but no tree, my old Windows XP has Hiarcs and Chessbase Reader on it and my i7 maybe too. But they are a bit kaputt I have no idea where the HIARCS files are at the moment, I must still have them..

[Eduard]

There will be a new version at the end of 2023. Many of my own games, many of my friends' games, as well as all interesting Kibizing games are implemented.

[Eelco de Groot]

Sounds great Eduard!

[Eduard]

New free CTG book, Solista-ENG 2024-2.ctg, with best Engine-Servergames from 1. January 2022 until 20. November 2023. Download Pixeldrain (ctg 270 MB, ZIP 101 MB):

Download HERE:

https://solistachess.jimdosite.com/books/

Picture Book:



Note: Version 2 is not based on version 1, but on new games. That's why the book is smaller in size. Version 1 covers everything since 2021. Version 2 includes only the very best server games from 2022, as well as new games from 2023. As encyclopedia, version 1 may be better, but version 2 is the better choice for gaming.

Have a nice day.

[Eelco de Groot]

Thanks Eduard!

[Eduard]

This version 2 is also very strong as tournament book. I made sure that the number of games for stronger variants was significantly higher than for weaker variants (regardless of the result). I also played a lot of test games on PlayChess.

[Peter Berger]

This version 2 is also very strong as tournament book. I made sure that the number of games for stronger variants was significantly higher than for weaker variants (regardless of the result). I also played a lot of test games on PlayChess.

Thanks for the interesting contribution. I will have a look at your book soon.

[Eduard]

22. Dec 2023: Engine INCOGNITO 5. Stockfish updates until Dec 22, 2023. Features: NNUE with Dimension 3072, External Network, Slow Mover, MinimumThinkingTime. Download (avx2, avx512, bmi2, sse41, modern, source code):

INCOGNITO 5 with embedded network: https://pixeldrain.com/u/XRQ52kTc
INCOGNITO 5 with external network: https://pixeldrain.com/u/xbvxbE9f

and on my Homepage:
https://solistachess.jimdosite.com/books/