The characteristics of the HS_for_Rybka.ctg book.

[Har]

Hello,
After I played and studied more than 7600 games with Rybka I made
some observations concerning this super engine.
For Rybka with the black pieces in the Caro-Kann and in the French
there are lines treated bad.In Ruy Lopez and Russian defence in some
cases Rybka has problems too.
The Sicilian is very fine for Rybka,especially certain lines the opponent
is forced into BY THE BOOK.
After troublesome work I found out that Rybka leaves the book with
average evaluations between -0.15 and +0.10.That's good for black.
After 1)d4, 1)c4 or 1)Nf3 there are no problems,the King's Indian
excluded.
With the white pieces everything is OK for Rybka.Especially after 1)e4
the opponent will come out of the book with a negative evaluation.
Best regards,
Harry Schnapp

[bedouin]

The hsbook is quite a strong book because according to some guy in another forum he won the tours yesterday with it. You can bet the guys in the tours have their own strong books or use the Sheebar/Rybka book.