Book testing (tuning) with ProDeo

[Rebel]

ProDeo 3.1x is a special version with the purpose to tune (analyzed) Polyglot opening books by playing matches at rapid time control. Opening books are never perfect but in a convenient way it's possible to weed out most bad or not so good moves. In the below examples we pitch two equal Polyglot books against each other, book-1 the normal way, book-2 the smart way. The smart way does the following things:

1. The first step checks the score of chosen book move with the score of the previous book move and if the score drops with >= 1.00 that book move won't be played. And if that was the only move available from the book the engine starts to calculate ignoring the book move.

2. The second step investigates the cases when there are more than one book moves available. If the score of the chosen book move is lower than >= 0.50 than the score of the best move, the chosen move is replaced with the move with the best score and finally the new chosen book move is compared with the previous book move -- as above -- but now with the 0.50 margin.

3. Book decisions [1] and [2] are stored in the file book-remark.txt as a guide to make modifications for instance with SCID. Results:

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[belzedar94]

Hello Rebel,

Is there any way to generate and tune opening books for variants with your tool? (3Check, Crazyhouse, atomic, etc.)

Thanks