Book Registrations are not allowed, the rules were in active tour:• Anyone interested can submit a book (once per 2 months): Contact• Please Read Carefully, there are new rules for the current tourney:1. As participants are preferred to play mainly by known book authors2. By unknown is required min 100 games (played on Playchess etc) This rule can be called VISA, it's against cheating, more Details3. In this tournament: all opening books allowed (Private+Available) 4. Max.compressed size limit (up to) CTG: 300 MB / BIN: 150 MB Exc. a few MB extra can be acceptable..for frequent book players...5. New entries will be tested once in 60 days (once per 2 months) Exc. Top 5 book players have choice to update once in 30 days In this case, the updated Top books will be just resumed to play...6. As registered players: only one book is allowed (from same author) Exc. I can accept testing 2 books or more from same author: Details7. All games will be available after the end of book tour, exception: Only Book Authors can get their games (sure, in case of request...)
Tournament Details:• All opening books are played by same engine:: CF EXT 291120 C40• Parallel matches, so for each player installed a separate copy of engine For more details over this issue can be viewed: Engine / GUI testings• As graphical chess interfaces used: Fritz 12, Fritz 13 Fritz 14 GUIs, That means a few separate Fritz Chess 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• On 2x E5-2686 machine are installed and used only chess programs Plus no internet connection (to prevent against any kind of threats...) Tournament PC is daily restarted, speed benchmark in every 2-3 days And it seems, all is quite stable, as we see.. no any time forfeits etc.• The ongoing book tour is planning to be active for several months• As usual, I plan to test a lot of books, from the past to the present! Sure, the main target is to be played the latest new opening books• Rather than tour, it will be a rating (with min 300 games per player) Actually manyTop books are expecting to consist over than 500 games• Any Leader (after 500 games per player) will be titled as Champion Meanwhile, a new idea is born: in this book tour there will be 3 tittles: 'Free' Champion = Best performance of the free public opening books 'BIN' Champion = Best performance of the books in Polyglot format 'Classic' Champion = Best performance in overall (ctg, private etc)• 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 tested by Authors suggested settings too Note: In case of no any recommendation settings, then will be tested: CTG: Optimized 0/100; BIN: BestBookMove ON, BookDepth: 255• Why I prefer as NON-NNUE, TC 2m+1s and 4 Core/Game is that,- The main reason is simply to reduce the overall draw percentage.. Otherwise it is expecting the draw percentage to be close 97-98% For more info, regarding over these issues can be viewed: Details. Good Luck to All!
Best Regards Sedat Canbaz
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Tournament Details:• All opening books are played by same engine:: CF EXT 291120 C40• Parallel matches, so for each player installed a separate copy of engine For more details over this issue can be viewed: Engine / GUI testings• As graphical chess interfaces used: Fritz 12, Fritz 13 Fritz 14 GUIs, That means a few separate Fritz Chess 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• On 2x E5-2686 machine are installed and used only chess programs Plus no internet connection (to prevent against any kind of threats...) Tournament PC is daily restarted, speed benchmark in every 2-3 days And it seems, all is quite stable, as we see.. no any time forfeits etc.• The ongoing book tour is planning to be active for several months• As usual, I plan to test a lot of books, from the past to the present! Sure, the main target is to be played the latest new opening books• Rather than tour, it will be a rating (with min 300 games per player) Actually manyTop books are expecting to consist over than 500 games• Any Leader (after 500 games per player) will be titled as Champion Meanwhile, a new idea is born: in this book tour there will be 3 tittles: 'Free' Champion = Best performance of the free public opening books 'BIN' Champion = Best performance of the books in Polyglot format 'Classic' Champion = Best performance in overall (ctg, private etc)• 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 tested by Authors suggested settings too Note: In case of no any recommendation settings, then will be tested: CTG: Optimized 0/100; BIN: BestBookMove ON, BookDepth: 255• Why I prefer as NON-NNUE, TC 2m+1s and 4 Core/Game is that,- The main reason is simply to reduce the overall draw percentage.. Otherwise it is expecting the draw percentage to be close 97-98% For more info, regarding over these issues can be viewed: Details. Good Luck to All!
Best Regards Sedat Canbaz
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