Breaking News - 09.11.2025: A new tour is started.. and as usual, I wish good luck to all book participants! As 1st start one of Top books entered, in next days: more entries are comingMeanwhile, for my other previous posts for ongoing competition: OpenChess
Current Private Book Leader: Don-Lite - Congratulations to Vasid Chouhanl Current Public Book Leader: Chabon - My Congratulations to Angel Morano!
Rank Name Elo + - games score oppo. draws 1 DonLite 311025 3850 3 3 800 53% 3837 93% 2 Biyuya v2.1 2025 3845 3 4 800 52% 3837 94% 3 DON 311025 3844 3 4 800 51% 3837 96% 4 Chabon 3842 4 4 800 51% 3838 94% 5 Queen's Gambit 3841 4 4 800 51% 3838 96% 6 Arpia 3840 4 4 800 51% 3838 96% 7 Leschats 301025 3834 4 4 800 49% 3839 96% 8 Tunafish 3.2 3828 3 3 800 48% 3839 91% 9 No Book 3818 3 2 800 45% 3841 88%
• Calculated by Bayeselo / Arpia is fixed to 3840 Elo / Blue Name = Last Update
More Details (09.11.2025):• All books are played by same 3800+ engine Stockfish X (by Vasid Chouhan)• In this new Championship: All books are allowed (Private plus Public as well) • Sure, just in case of interest..BIN book registrations are acceptable: Contact• By unknown is required min. 100 games (played on Playchess, Lichess etc.) This rule can be called as VISA, it's simply against cheating for more: Details• As bonus the frequent Authors are free to submit several new opening books Just to be more clear, each other, they have to be different (in playing styles)• Maximum. opening book size limit rule: up to 250 MB (compressed) allowed As another bonus (sure for frequent...) 500 MB (in size) is acceptable as well• Main Settings (for all book entries): Book Depth: 40 / Best Move as Disabled Exception some of the Entries will participate by Authors suggested settings• Any Private Book Leader (after 1000 games per player) will be titled Champ Plus at same time, there will be Champion titles for the Public books as well• After end of tour - downloading all games era is ended..so since 16.08.2025: New Rule: only book authors (sure via request) may get their played games• The current overall draw percentage (based on 3600 games) is bit high: 94%48 47 46 45 44 43 42 LXX 41 LXIX 40 39 35n BEC1 BEN2 38 37 36 S1 35 34 33