Announcement: SCCT Book ChampionShip III

By Sedat Canbaz Date 2014-11-18 15:20

Hello There!)

Just I'd like to remember you that,
Soon I am planning to organize SCCT Book CS III

I wonder too,
Are ready for the real Arena )?
And I hope to see many registrations...

For SCCT Book CampionShip III's official web site:
http://www.sedatcanbaz.com/chess/?page_id=1107

Best,
Sedat

By Sedat Canbaz Date 2014-11-30 09:21

Hello Chess Friends,

I am getting several mails about how to participate, so...

In case of interest to participate in the next SCCT Book CS III,
You need to send your download book link to my e-mail address:

.

Best,
Sedat

By Sedat Canbaz Date 2014-12-05 11:53 Edited 2014-12-05 11:56

And here are the participants:

Opening Book    Engine      Book  Author         Country
Adv1971 SE      Stockfish   Guest71              Italy 
Axion           Stockfish   Nick Carlin          England
Book X          Komodo      Adam Hair            USA
Crusher v16     Stockfish   Marc Greenhaw        USA
Exodus          Stockfish   Siddhartha Bakshi    India
Hurricane3E     Stockfish   Nikolay Bartenev     Russia
Guardian Angel  Stockfish   Giuseppe Petruccelli Italy
JackStrong      Komodo      Pawel Sekowski       Poland
Invictus        Stockfish   Klaus Ritter         Germany
KingOfLegends   Stockfish   Babu Hatela          India
Mapanare2014    Stockfish   Jean Disquin         Venezuela 
Needle 5.7.4F   Stockfish   Aleksandr Shvachko   Russia   
Rodent          Stockfish   Pawel Koziol         Poland
Sky-Panda       Stockfish   Eros Riccio          Italy
S.W.Y.D VII     Stockfish   Tiago Alves          Brasil
Zenix3.8        Stockfish   Julien Durand        France

Note:
Stockfish 301114 and Komodo 1318 are planning to used !

More Details,
I plan to include a few books more, based mainly on Top engine games played in:
CCRL
CEGT
FCT
SCCTb (based on games played in SCCT Book Tournaments)
SCCTe (based on games played in SCCT Engine Tournaments)
SSDF
Note also that, the above 6 books are planning to be played with Stockfish engine
The mentioned books are in ctg formats, up to 50 moves, without any optimizations...
My created books are expecting to be one of the last places, due to various openings, plus games are available... )!
But however, I wonder a lot what will be their performance, let's see...

Probably tomorrow I will start this exiting event )!

Good luck to all participants !

Best Regards,
Sedat

By Sedat Canbaz Date 2014-12-07 15:59

Hello Friends,

The Current Top 5 Book Leaders are:
King Of Legends
Sky-Panda
Exodus
Guardian Angel III
Needle 5.7.4F

SCCT Book ChampionShip III - Standings after 345 games:
http://www.sedatcanbaz.com/chess/?page_id=1107

Some Notes:
Each book participant will have more than 120 games per player!

Invictus book's participation is cancelled, due to the tournament was several times crashed during this book was active...
Strange indeed, not sure why...normally Invictus files seem to be clean (checked with AVG Antivirus program)

In the end of this tournament,
I plan to test 3 books more in a gauntlet mode:
Ipman book (the book author is Ipman, who is an expert on engine complies)
TCEC book (based on Top chess engine games played in TCEC tournaments)
WorldChampions book (based on average 2750 Elo GMs games, played mainly on World Chess ChampionShips)

Best,
Sedat

By Klaus R Date 2014-12-07 23:30

Wo ist das invictus Buch ?

By Sedat Canbaz Date 2014-12-08 01:02

Klaus R schrieb:

Wo ist das invictus Buch ?

Dear Klaus,

What a pity that when I run Invictus book...the tournament is crashing, I mean Fritz 12 GUI freezes
I tried it with Fritz 13 GUI too...the same thing happens....that's why I stopped testing it...

Note: the active tournament minimum 6-7 times crashed especially when I run Invictus book

Really I am not sure why...It looks like there is a something wrong....
I have tested more than 1000 books, and for the 1st time I noticed such strange thing...

Sorry...

Best,
Sedat

By Sedat Canbaz Date 2014-12-08 13:36

New Update

Congrats to the current Top 5 book players:

   1 King Of Legends
   2 Guardian Angel III
   3 Exodus
   4 Mapanare 2014 / Axion
   5 Hurricane3E Blitz

SCCT CS III's - current standings after 939 games:
http://www.sedatcanbaz.com/chess/?page_id=1107

Note also that,
So far not too bad performance by CEGT, SCCTe, CCRL books too
Because I've spent O (zero) time during creating them...)!
In shortly, I just imported the played games....

BTW, I think this tournament should not be forgotten because,
Also I plan to include Deep Junior 8 in the current competition
Note: Junior MP engine will participate with a decent book, based on approx. 2700 Elo 50.000 GMs games, up to 25 moves
For better performance, I optimized Junior 8 MP's playing opening style, e.g I enabled only Junior 8 wins played in serious tournaments...
The reason about why I plan to include Junior 8 MP is that, I wonder what will the Elo difference...
Plus as far as I know, Deep Junior 8 is on level as many Top Grandmasters average 2800 Elo...
For example, still it's in my mind the duel between Kasparov vs Deep Junior 8, which is ended 3-3 draw (2003)
And as I mentioned before, nowadays we can not see a real duel GMs against Top Chess engines...
At least this exiting tour will give us a little bit info...in case of similar match what will be the performance )!
For example, many chess engine rating creators give very low Elo values for Stockfish, Komodo...
So...if Deep Junior 8 will be rated above than 3000 Elo, that means I should drop the start Elo calculations...
Note also that Deep Junior 8 has high possibility to be rated above than expected...
Because FCT, CCRL, CEGT, SCCTb, SCCTe, SSDF, TCEC books have a lot of holes...especially after 8 moves
To be honest, I expect Deep Junior 8 will rated at around 2750-2850 Elo, but of course to be sure we need games
And very soon all this unknown issue will be solved....)!

Have Fun,
Sedat

By Sedat Canbaz Date 2014-12-09 01:31

The Current Top 3 Standings:

Code:


   # PLAYER                : RATING     POINTS  PLAYED   (%)
   1 King Of Legends       : 3526.7      69.5     120   57.9%
   2 Exodus                : 3502.1      65.5     120   54.6%
   3 Guardian Angel III    : 3499.8      65.0     120   54.2%

SCCT Book Championship III - Full Standings:
http://www.sedatcanbaz.com/chess/?page_id=1107

Next Participants:
IPman book
TCEC book
WorldChampions book
Deep Junior 8 engine

Probably tomorrow will be clear the new SCCT Book Champion )!

Best,
Sedat

By Klaus Ritter Date 2014-12-08 16:20 Edited 2014-12-08 19:37

The Book Work on my Computer and Gui 11,13 fine...

I think is Bad Joke.

Invictus.ctg for all

[Link auf Wunsch von K. Ritter entfernt. R.R]

By ? Date 2014-12-08 16:50

What do you mean Klaus? with bad joke

By Klaus Ritter Date 2014-12-08 18:29

Schlechter Witz

By Klaus Ritter Date 2014-12-08 18:54 Edited 2014-12-08 19:03

Dieser Link ist besser !! den anderen erst gar nicht nehmen...

Invictus.ctg

http://workupload.com/file/p46a2e2s

By Sedat Canbaz Date 2014-12-09 01:44

Klaus Ritter schrieb:

The Book Work on my Computer and Gui 11,13 fine...

I think is Bad Joke.

Invictus.ctg for all

[Link auf Wunsch von K. Ritter entfernt. R.R]

No...it is not a joke...I am very serious !

As I said before,
When your book was active....even both tournament computers crashed several times !!
I managed to get just a few games with your book in 24 hours...
Really I've lost many CPU time and I've spent many efforts to fix it...
But unfortunately in my each trying without success...

A such thing first time happens in SCCT...
I look carefully in your book and I did not notice anything wrong
But however, there is something wrong...
Once more I'd like to mention...under both computers appeared such problems and exactly with you book...

Sorry again...

Best,
Sedat

By Sedat Canbaz Date 2014-12-09 15:03

Breaking News,

WorldChampions book is currently 6th !
So far very good performance indeed...!!

More details about the current WorldChampions book,
Book's openings are based on the greatest chess players ever, played in world championships by:
Paul Morphy
Wilhelm Steinitz
Emanuel Lasker
Jose Raul Capablanca
Alexander Alekhine
Max Euwe
Mikhail Botvinnik
Vasily Smyslov
Mikhail Tal
Tigran Petrosian
Boris Spassky
Robert J. Fischer
Anatoly Karpov
Garry Kasparov
Vladimir Kramnik
Ruslan Ponomariov
Rustam Kasimdzhanov
Viswanathan Anand
Magnus Carlsen

About Ipman book,
Currently is 9th, as a new incomer really good !

About TCEC book,
Its performance is now at 18th place, not bad too ...

Once more I'd like to mention that,
Neutral openings have no chances to be rated at one of the Top places, due to various openings...
Plus especially after 8 moves: the openings suffer...they are not optimized for such competitions !

But however very soon,
I plan to run a new book tournament, which will be based on openings up to 8 moves
Let's see which short openings are the strongest for computer chess !)

Btw, so far Deep Junior 8's performance (as I expected) is at around 2850 Elo

And once more I noticed that,
SCCT Elo calculations almost perfectly suit to GMs Elo points !)

And in case of GMs participations under the current SCCT conditions,
Probably Top GMs will be rated at similar Elo points as Deep Junior 8

Note also that finely Deep Junior 8 managed to win (against SSDF) !!

I checked that played game, impressive...well-done to Junior team...!
But of course SSDF lost due to weak opening )!
To be honest, I am not much surprised that a such opening is coming from SSDF )
Because the old dated own books have much more holes than latest used decent books...

Also Deep Junior has 3 draws (against Sky-Panda, Hurricane3E, Rodent)
And 92 defeats...in other words, Deep Junior's performance so far: 1 win, 3 draws, 92 losses

For SCCT Book ChampionShip's Current Standings:
http://www.sedatcanbaz.com/chess/?page_id=1107

Greetings,
Sedat

By Sedat Canbaz Date 2014-12-09 20:58

Dear Chess Friends,

SCCT Book CS III's Champion: King Of Legends !
http://www.sedatcanbaz.com/chess/?page_id=1107

My Congratulations to the Winner: Babu Hatela (India)
An impressive performance...with over 60 % winning percentage !!

Also I'd like congratulate the 2nd and 3d places
2nd. Exodus book by Siddhartha Bakshi (India)

3rd. Guardian Angel III book by Giuseppe Petruccelli (Italy)

Many thanks to all participated Book Authors, without YOU, SCCT would not exist...!

See you till next event )!

Best,
Sedat

By Klaus Ritter Date 2014-12-09 16:21 Edited 2014-12-09 17:04

Das wird mir hier langsam zu albern (ein Buch was ein Turnier crashen kann, schlapp lach)

Habe nochmals direkt vom Link geladen und eng vs eng Zweikampf Invictus Buch vs. Rybka 4 rennt hier ohne Probleme

Achso: Sedat hatte meine Email Adresse !! wieso er mich nicht anschrieb um das angebliche Problem zu beheben ist ja wohl auch wieder sehr mysteriös

By Sedat Canbaz Date 2014-12-10 14:36

Klaus Ritter schrieb:

Dear Klaus,

I shared my information to public, just because:
1. I always share my chess efforts, almost all my opinions, thoughts etc to forums...
2. I can't see nothing wrong in that...even its helpful..because 1st time happens...maybe we can find the solution and to fix it

Btw, you are my good chess friend of mine, be sure of this !

I still remember your organized book tournament in the past, where Perfect 14 is rated as 1st place

Greetings,
Sedat

By Sedat Canbaz Date 2014-12-10 14:59

Btw,

Tomorrow I will try again to test Invictus book, this time I will install Fritz 11 GUI
If still the problem continues...then I will try it on my other PC systems too, e.g on i5 3210M

I promise to do my best...

Best,
Sedat

By Sedat Canbaz Date 2014-12-11 10:45

Dear Friends,

Finely I managed to test (under Fritz 11 GUI) Invictus book !)

For SCCT Book ChampionShip III's Final Rankings:
http://www.sedatcanbaz.com/chess/?page_id=1107

Note: Registrations are closed, the current tour is over !

Btw, very soon I plan to organize a new book competition !!

There will be new conditions/rules for the next exiting event,
To be as book participant: minimum 100 opening lines are required
*For example, minimum 50 as Whites and 50 as Blacks openings
Up to 8 move book openings are allowed
Book Settings: recommended by the Book Authors
The books will be tested with Learning OFF (to see more various openings)
The rest conditions will be same as previous one (SCCT CS III)

And here are some of the opening books, which are planning to participate:
Baracuda 2014d (by Marijan)
CCRL (based on Top engine games played in CCRL)
CEGT (based on Top engine games played in CEGT)
FCT (based on Top engine games played in FCT)
HS-7moves plus (by Harry Schnapp)
ICCF (based on high-rated games played in ICCF server)
Perfect 2015 (based on Top engine games played mainly in SCCT)
PlayChess (based on high-rated engine games played in Playchess server)
SSDF (based on Top engine games played in SSDF)
TCEC (based on Top engine games played in TCEC)
WorldChampions (based on GMs games played in World Chess Championships)

Note also before starting the next tour,
I will reset the learned weights of the played books: CCRL, CEGT, FCT, SSDF, TCEC, WorldChampion

So who is interested to participate...the next book tour is planning to be started on 20 December 2014
The registration date: 17 - 19 December 2014

I hope to see many registrations in the next event...

Best Wishes,
Sedat