QUESTION: Tournaments and Opening Books?

[Kirk]

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I would think a "bookless" engine tournament would be very interesting

I have already 3 type of tournaments,where all engines have been played:
1.Without opening books,no tablebases
2.With same neutlar (Perfect 12.33) book+tablebases
3.With own books+tablebases

SCCT's 3 Type Tournaments:
http://www.sedatchess.com/scct_3type.html

Best,
Sedat

Thank you

I will look at those!

[govert]

So what's the alternative?
I guess you need a bunch of different starting positions, but how do you determine the lack of bias towards a particular engine?

Allowing each engine to play as both White and Black from a given starting position should help minimise that concern.

When both plays the same position it can't really be called bias especially if there are more than a handful positions. There are some test suites you can download. Nunn, Silver Suite (Albert Silver), and ECO Variations (mine).

Where can I find the ECO variations?


Would the full set of Nunn+Silver+ECO variations have a lot of overlap?

[kingliveson]

So what's the alternative?
I guess you need a bunch of different starting positions, but how do you determine the lack of bias towards a particular engine?

Allowing each engine to play as both White and Black from a given starting position should help minimise that concern.

When both plays the same position it can't really be called bias especially if there are more than a handful positions. There are some test suites you can download. Nunn, Silver Suite (Albert Silver), and ECO Variations (mine).

Where can I find the ECO variations?


Would the full set of Nunn+Silver+ECO variations have a lot of overlap?

I don't think there should be an overlap...you can read the description of each test set:

Nunn
Silver
ECO

[govert]

thanks for the links!