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Book Registrations NOT allowed, but the rules were in active tour:
• Here are the new rules of the current book championship XXXVI:
1. As participants are allowed only the available free opening books
E.g the commercial, private or unreleased ones are not planning...
In short (in case of interest to submit a book):
Firstly you've to make it publicly available, later you can inform..
2. Max. uncompressed size (up to) CTG: 1250 MB / BIN: 250 MB
Or in compressed size (up to) CTG: 300 MB / BIN: 100 MB
3. New book players will be tested once in 30 days (once per month)
Exception, Top 5 players had choice to update 2 times in 30 days
In short, the updated Top 5 books will be just resumed to play...
And those updated ones will be published as last released date
4. In this tour, CTG + BIN, plus dual BIN books are allowed as well...
5. All games will be available after the end of competition, exception:
Authors can get their games (in case of request in every 2 weeks)
Tournament Details
• All opening books are playing by same engine: Brainfish 151019 C40
• Exception, Fres book is played via Lc0 engine too plus without book
• For each book player is installed a separate copy of Brainfish engine
• On my machine (2x E5-2686) installed and used only chess programs
- Plus no internet connection (to prevent against any kind of threats)
• The ongoing competition is planning to be active for several months
• I plant to test a lot of opening books, from the past to the present!
• Rather than tour, it will be a rating (with min 300 games per player)
• Chessbase (ctg) main book settings: Learning ON, Optimized, 0/100
Exception, other settings can be used by Author's recommendations
Btw, please take a screenshot (in case of request other than 0/100)
• Polyglot (bin) books will be played with best book move as disabled
E.g, Bin vs Bin (BM ON) usually play 2 exactly same openings
Just imagine, many games (each other) absolutely identical openings
• As graphical chess interfaces used: Fritz 12, Fritz 13, Fritz 14 GUIs
That means, a few separate Fritz GUIs are played (in same time...)
I don't prefer newer ChessBase ones such as Fritz 15, Fritz 16 GUIs,
Due to 'Book Learning' does not work in Gauntlet, Round-robin mode
• New Entrants will be played (min 300 games) mainly vs Top books
• Any Leader (after 300 games per player) will be titled as Champion
E.g I expect to see frequent and different books to be as Champions
As we know...all of the opening book players are publicly available...
Participant Details
• So far, mostly of participated books are in Chessbase (CTG) format
• I've created several based books, which are available: Outskirts forum
More Details
Especially in these difficult times, I think:
The best way to double your happiness is to share it as free with others...
Where many chess fans will have chance to benefit from your work!)
I also hope that XXXVI tour will put somebody's mind at ease!
And it seems, the current book competition is going to be:
A good indicator of determining the strongest free books!
And Last,
Many thanks for your hard work, interest and good luck to all...!
Take care of yourself...
Best Wishes,
Sedat Canbaz