Breaking News - 24.09.2022: Another new competition...again only World Champions books! I've used exactly the same book versions, which played:Results Sure, new fresh book copies are installed for current tournament Because the books were learned from previous Human-like tour This time, all played by same NON-NNUE engine: Cfish 030820 Now (via this tour) it is clear regarding which books are strongest And as I stated earlier, Kasparov is Kasparov, one of best ever..! Kramnik is 2nd actually no BIG surprise e.g he is Champion VIIIg Ponomariov is 2nd too, very interesting...same points as Kramnik Topalov is performed 3rd. on other hand, no BIG surprise again.. E.g Topalov is 3rd in VIIIg tourney too..really stable performance Of course, Capablanca, Carlsen etc.are another beast for sure! And I hope you like my chess activities? See you in next tours.!)
Champion of Champions: Kasparov - Congrats to Garry Kasparov!
# PLAYER : RATING POINTS GAMES (%) 1 Kasparov : 3640.8 186.0 342 54.4% 2 Kramnik : 3625.9 178.5 342 52.2% 3 Ponomariov : 3625.9 178.5 342 52.2% 4 Topalov : 3623.9 177.5 342 51.9% 5 Capablanca : 3620.9 176.0 342 51.5% 6 Carlsen : 3618.9 175.0 342 51.2% 7 Khalifman : 3616.9 174.0 342 50.9% 8 Euwe : 3616.9 174.0 342 50.9% 9 Botvinnik : 3616.9 174.0 342 50.9% 10 Kasimdzhanov : 3615.9 173.5 342 50.7% 11 Anand : 3614.0 172.5 342 50.4% 12 Karpov : 3610.0 170.5 342 49.9% 13 Tal : 3608.0 169.5 342 49.6% 14 Fischer : 3603.1 167.0 342 48.8% 15 Smyslov : 3601.1 166.0 342 48.5% 16 Petrosian : 3598.1 164.5 342 48.1% 17 Lasker : 3594.1 162.5 342 47.5% 18 Alekhine : 3593.1 162.0 342 47.4% 19 Steinitz : 3588.2 159.5 342 46.6% 20 Spassky : 3587.2 159.0 342 46.5%
More Details:• All books are played by 6-times Champion engine: Cfish 030820 C40• Note also that all of them tuned to prefer Champions played openings• Each book is CTG, tested with settings: Optimized 0/35, Learning ON• For maximum book performance and strength (while tuning each book): I enabled as main move the wins, as alternative the draws (for playing)• The overall draw percentage (based on 3420 games) not so high: 72%• Download all the played tournament games (in PGN format): CS LXIV
Champion of Champions: Kasparov - Congrats to Garry Kasparov!
# PLAYER : RATING POINTS GAMES (%) 1 Kasparov : 3640.8 186.0 342 54.4% 2 Kramnik : 3625.9 178.5 342 52.2% 3 Ponomariov : 3625.9 178.5 342 52.2% 4 Topalov : 3623.9 177.5 342 51.9% 5 Capablanca : 3620.9 176.0 342 51.5% 6 Carlsen : 3618.9 175.0 342 51.2% 7 Khalifman : 3616.9 174.0 342 50.9% 8 Euwe : 3616.9 174.0 342 50.9% 9 Botvinnik : 3616.9 174.0 342 50.9% 10 Kasimdzhanov : 3615.9 173.5 342 50.7% 11 Anand : 3614.0 172.5 342 50.4% 12 Karpov : 3610.0 170.5 342 49.9% 13 Tal : 3608.0 169.5 342 49.6% 14 Fischer : 3603.1 167.0 342 48.8% 15 Smyslov : 3601.1 166.0 342 48.5% 16 Petrosian : 3598.1 164.5 342 48.1% 17 Lasker : 3594.1 162.5 342 47.5% 18 Alekhine : 3593.1 162.0 342 47.4% 19 Steinitz : 3588.2 159.5 342 46.6% 20 Spassky : 3587.2 159.0 342 46.5%
More Details:• All books are played by 6-times Champion engine: Cfish 030820 C40• Note also that all of them tuned to prefer Champions played openings• Each book is CTG, tested with settings: Optimized 0/35, Learning ON• For maximum book performance and strength (while tuning each book): I enabled as main move the wins, as alternative the draws (for playing)• The overall draw percentage (based on 3420 games) not so high: 72%• Download all the played tournament games (in PGN format): CS LXIV
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