SCCT Book Super League I is already over !

[Sedat Canbaz]

Hello Dear Chess Friends!

The new Champion of SCCT Book Super League I: Prodigy 12 - Congratulations to Maurice Chac (Indonesia)

My congratulations also for 2nd and 3rd ranks:
Second Place:Blade 5.1 by Jitan Stribal (Japan)
Third Place:Sicilian Finale by Munish Gupta (India)

Disqualified Participants:Rompecoco 2c;Nano 2;Hitman 5.4

For SCCT Book Super League I - Final Standings:
http://www.sedatcanbaz.com/chess/scct-super-league/
https://sites.google.com/site/computers ... per-league

Note also that the current TOP 20 books performed and played as real Champions too

Many Thanks to all SCCT SL's Book Authors for your participation and for your efforts of creating newer stronger variations

I am quite sure too that many chess friends will benefit from your Great work

And last, i hope too see you again in the next SCCT Book Tours

Best Regards,
Sedat Canbaz

[Ron Langeveld]

Dear Sedat,

First I would like to thank you for your wonderful effort to entertain us with top notch coverage of what today's book makers have to offer us (..or themselves).

I presume it takes lots of time and energy to come to your level of professionalism to engage the books against each other and see what happens... and we all can see that too, which is wonderful.

Yet I can't help but wondering whether or not you are also being used by specific book makers that are only interested in getting paid for their 'efforts'

I noticed that some books that score quite well in your tournaments are actually very bad books. Bad in the sense that they only last for one tournament. I browsed the game file to discover that for example JapanTopTeamIII and PrideIII base their scoring on 'systems' like 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Ne5 and 1.e3 respectively.

Let's get real : not that these lines are won by black with perfect play but it isn't that hard to refute the book once you know the 'path to victory'. These books are based on one thing only : play many games from an early (dubious) sideline that is NOT in any book and import just the wins for the side you are preparing.

This concept is not bad by definition for a competition like yours, but what is disturbing in my opinion is that the book makers sell their books for money to chess lovers over the world who do not know that the book is worthless upon release. All a big scam if you ask me, with your name attached in the 'ads' I think.

Again, not your fault but maybe something you could think about when accepting books in your tournaments.

Best wishes,
Ron Langeveld

[Sedat Canbaz]

Dear Sedat,

First I would like to thank you for your wonderful effort to entertain us with top notch coverage of what today's book makers have to offer us (..or themselves).

I presume it takes lots of time and energy to come to your level of professionalism to engage the books against each other and see what happens... and we all can see that too, which is wonderful.

Yet I can't help but wondering whether or not you are also being used by specific book makers that are only interested in getting paid for their 'efforts'

I noticed that some books that score quite well in your tournaments are actually very bad books. Bad in the sense that they only last for one tournament. I browsed the game file to discover that for example JapanTopTeamIII and PrideIII base their scoring on 'systems' like 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Ne5 and 1.e3 respectively.

Let's get real : not that these lines are won by black with perfect play but it isn't that hard to refute the book once you know the 'path to victory'. These books are based on one thing only : play many games from an early (dubious) sideline that is NOT in any book and import just the wins for the side you are preparing.

This concept is not bad by definition for a competition like yours, but what is disturbing in my opinion is that the book makers sell their books for money to chess lovers over the world who do not know that the book is worthless upon release. All a big scam if you ask me, with your name attached in the 'ads' I think.

Again, not your fault but maybe something you could think about when accepting books in your tournaments.

Best wishes,
Ron Langeveld

Hello dear Ron,

Not at all,its my pleasure and i'd like to thank you very much for your interest and kind words

Actually i agree with some of your statements...but however this is not in my hands and just i'd like to mention once more that:
-I am a neutral tester,so for me it does not matter about the current qualified top books are commercial,free or private
-I dont gain no any cent from JapanTopTeam sales...or from other my ComputerChess activities (i have a good business and i am satisfied from it)
-Also i dont care too much about what kind of opening lines or moves include the current book participants
-For me the most important is to see how the books will be performed... i love the wins
-And instead of experimental books,i prefer testing a well-optimized decent books


BTW,if you mean about Hitman 5.4's low book performance in the current tour (SCCT Book Super League I)
Then i need to say again that there are several reasons why Hitman 5.4 is ranked in last place and here are one of them:
1)The Hitman's current TOP 20 Book opponents were very hard(Top 20 books,which are qualified from over many other strong books)
2)Hitman 5.4 book's results suffer from being publically available
3)Not updated/optimized since 2 months (in that long period of time, the opponents had enough time to tuned against it)
4)The Hitman 5.4 book's all strongest lines are blocked (it has already no big chances to win against the current participants)


Last Note:there is no doubt that Eduardo Koji is a Top Book Maker of High Class,where his books were two times the Winner of SCCT VII and SCCT VIII,4th place in SCCT IX

This is really a SCCT record and as far as i remember Attacker book by Andrian Costinescu have also similar records



Greetings,
Sedat