Breaking News - 19.01.2026:      Another new unofficial contest, where this time as players are created books      Based mainly on high-rated online players, which are belonging to the past...      I refer regarding many strong players of Playchess 2008 / Playchess 2009      And as usual, SedatChess and The Gladiator, that means it's me..in short,       Both user names are belonging to me..and I used to play via Perfect 16 book,      As you noticed, both of them are performed superior strong again and again! Plus good points come by many others too, just only a few of them Thamover,   Crawly..Btw, If you ask Is this all a lottery? Each time being Number One ?      (Sure here I mean in case of participating vs close (in dates) opening lines..)      The answer of that question is perfectly clear: not of course! Due "Success      Is no accident.It's hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and      Most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do." - Pele       And no matter via Online.. or on same PCs... Perfect books proved over, and       Not only once..for anyone missed/interested, one of tours Results / Results 2      Sure (via running all these tours) after so many years that would be the last thing       About proving myself.. Anyhow, as reason of running the recent tour was that       To check what will be online played situation but on same PC because Online       Game play is not identical as same PC game play, here one of main difference:      No any hardware speed advantage... but you may know, if your openings are       Well-built..even after decades, when faith and effort come together, 'victory' is         Inevitable! I admit that these 'legendary' openings suffer vs latest strong trend      Ones but otherwise, it will be against the laws of nature rules, right? Moreover,      If testing only others work..would not be unfair? Yes, sometimes not bad idea      To see my openings vs others as well, it's like watching favorite movies over !)      As last, Live the present, remember the past, and fear not the future. - Paolini 
      I'm pleased to announce: SedatChess (Perfect 16) with best performance!     Note: SedatChess's performance stats: 292 wins, 144 loses, and 564 draws
Rank Name              Elo    +    - games score oppo. draws   1 SedatChess       3150   13   13  1000   57%  3098   56%    2 The Gadiator     3130   13   13  1000   55%  3098   59%    3 Thamover         3126   13   13  1000   54%  3098   63%    4 Crawly           3121   13   13  1000   53%  3099   61%    5 PCC 2009 X1      3116   13   13  1000   53%  3099   60%    6 Vousatej         3114   13   13  1000   52%  3099   65%    7 Phil Harris      3109   13   13  1000   52%  3099   59%    8 Overpoint        3107   13   13  1000   51%  3099   59%    9 PCC 2009 X2      3106   13   13  1000   51%  3099   61%   10 PCC 2009 X3      3105   13   13  1000   51%  3099   62%   11 Bouddha#77       3101   13   13  1000   50%  3099   59%   12 A2liax6          3101   13   13  1000   50%  3099   62%   13 Don Juan         3100   13   13  1000   50%  3100   60%   14 Pacificrabbit    3099   13   13  1000   50%  3100   58%   15 BGl0dGxlIGZpc2g  3098   13   13  1000   50%  3100   63%   16 SLON             3098   13   13  1000   50%  3100   63%   17 Big Rabbit       3096   13   13  1000   49%  3100   63%   18 S Kojevnikov     3092   13   13  1000   49%  3100   62%   19 Optimus Prime    3091   13   13  1000   49%  3100   62%   20 Demchik          3089   13   13  1000   48%  3100   58%   21 Rybka33          3084   13   13  1000   48%  3100   63%   22 Acid moon        3084   13   13  1000   48%  3100   62%   23 PurePower        3079   13   13  1000   47%  3100   63%   24 Sin Libro        3069   13   13  1000   45%  3101   59%   25 Alesan           3064   13   13  1000   45%  3101   57%   26 PCC 2008         3058   13   13  1000   44%  3101   61% 
    • Calculated by Bayeselo / Don Juan (aka Jorge Centelles) is fixed to 3100 Elo
More Details:• All of opening books played by same engine: Critter 1.2 ( 3100 Elo) close in  In strength to Rybka 3, but Critter is used due supports BIN (Polyglot) books• All books are tuned to prefer Online players openings of 2008 and 2009 year,  And as far as possible, with min. 2000+ games (per player) created / played• Current overall tour draw percentage (based on 13000 games) is not high 61%• As usually, all the played tournament games available(in PGN):  Unofficial 4