Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: chesslibs Power book

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 16:33:37 12/02/05

Go up one level in this thread


On December 02, 2005 at 19:00:29, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On December 02, 2005 at 18:47:52, Horst Biewald wrote:
>
>>One other question, the Chesslibs Powerbook, is this a good opening book to have
>>for play and do different engines benefit from this large book?
>
>Often, large books are more dangerous to programs than small ones, but it is
>possible to make good quality large books.
>
>>Is there any advantage to using this particular book over other books, or
>>engines own books? Thank you!
>
>Probably, nobody has tested it.  The only way to know is to run several hundred
>gams and then count up the results.

 I played with it in the past at Playchess 9 games and i noticed that in the 2
of them my engine lost, due to a bad line from the book. So i abandoned it for
playing games with engines.
 The book is really huge, it is 1.08 GB while Fritz's, Shredder's, etc books are
around 245 MB. Probably with a good optimization it can be a very good book, but
this is not easy to be done.........



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.