SCCT Book ChampionShip IV

[Sedat Canbaz]

Hello There,

SCCT Book ChampionShip IV is already started:
http://www.sedatcanbaz.com/chess/?page_id=1231

The Current Leader: CEGT book - My Congratulations to CEGT Team !

Frankly,
This time, I am very disappointed with WorldChampions book's performance
Unfortunately currently its ranking is at last place (!
It looks like Houdini 4 suffers via WorldChampions book
For example in the previous tour, the same book finished as 9th place

Note that Book Registrations (up to 8 moves) are acceptable !

In case of interest to participate, please send your book to my E-Mail:


The registration date: 17 - 19 December 2014
Note: Registered books will be tested in gauntlet mode !

You have choice to prefer Hoidini 4, Komodo 8, Stockfish 5

I hope to see many book registrations in the current event...)!

Note also that,
In the beginning of the tournament, I set Stockfish 061214 for all book participants
But later I've change my mind, because I noticed nearly 90 % draws
That's why later I switched to 3 different engines:
Houdini 4 (H4)
Komodo 8 (K8)
Stockfish 5 (SF5)

For example after that moment,
The draw percentage is dropped to approx. 55 %

About book settings,
All books are playing with optimized book settings: min games: 3 up to 8 moves
Exception for Baracuda 2014d, it is s playing with Book Author's recommendation

As I mentioned before:
Here are the new conditions/rules for the current book tournament,
To be as book participant: minimum 100 opening lines are required
*For example, minimum 50 as Whites and 50 as Blacks openings
or 30 as Whites and rest 70 opening lines as Blacks
Note: I don't request totally different openings...
For example, your favorite openings can be English, Spanish, Sicilian...but not exactly same and a few lines
Otherwise it will be too boring to see only B90 at 8...h5 or D43 etc...

Please note also that,
Up to 8 move book openings are allowed
Book Settings: recommended by the Book Authors

There will be qualifications for the current playing books:
So each participant will be played 200 games per player
And after that, only the Top 5 books will be continued of participating
The new registered books will be tested against Top 5 books

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 currently running:
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)

BTW, I have good news,
Games and Perfect 2015 book will be available after the end of this tournament !

Best Regards,
Sedat

[Sedat Canbaz]

Update

The current Top 3 standings:
1 Perfect 2015 K8
2 CEGT SF5
3 HS-7moves plus SF5

And very soon the 1st tour will be over and I will publish overall standings

Btw,
Just to make it more clear about my new idea/rules,
Ok...my new project is very new and it can be improved,
And any advice would be helpful...

So...any book maker can register with an opening book
And I don't claim exactly min 100 opening lines
But I wish to see variety of openings, because the test will be up to 8 moves

Just an example,
White's turn: your book should play at least 2 or 3 as main moves
For example: d4; e4; Nf3 etc...

1)Black's turn: if the Whites will prefer to play to e4,
Then your book should play at least 2-3 as main moves: c5; e5; e6 etc..

or another example,

2)Black's turn: if the Whites will prefer to play to d4,
Then your book should play at least 2-3 as main moves: Nf6; d5; e6 etc..

Otherwise in case of no similar rules,
Then I am afraid that we can see only a few opening lines

For more details,
See and check please the current participated books,
All playing books have more than 100 opening lines
And all of them oftenly prefer various openings...

And now what about you ?!)
Are you ready for a such exiting competition ?)

I think this kind of test is really very important !
Especially will be useful for engine testers who prefer short openings...

And if there will be interest..., then I plan to work over this project longer...
So in the early of 2015, the registration date will be open again...

More Information Coming Soon )!

Best,
Sedat

[Sedat Canbaz]

The 1st tour is over !

And here are the qualified Top 5 books:
Perfect 2015 K8
CEGT SF5
HS-7moves plus SF5
CCRL SF5
SSDF H4

For Full Standings:
http://www.sedatcanbaz.com/chess/?page_id=1231

Note also there is a possibility in the next 2nd tour,
Perfect 2015 book to be not as participant...
Or maybe I can participate with Houdini 4
A little note: Houdini 4 is approx. 20 Elo weaker than SF and K8
In other words,
I will do my best to be not as Champion on my own tourney )!

Actually I know perfectly that,
I should be a neutral TD and I should not participate with my own work
But I was wondering a lot about my used engine openings...

Ok...once more we noticed that,
Any engine Elo strength is highly depending on used openings...


Now it is your turn...
Be ready for the real Arena )!


Greetings,
Sedat

[Sedat Canbaz]

I was wondering also about,
How Houdini 4 + P2015 book will do against Top 5 participants
So far, its performance is not bad...

And here are the current played results:
http://www.sedatcanbaz.com/chess/?page_id=1231

Ok...in case of any registrations for the second tour,
Probably I will participate with Perfect 2015 + Houdini 4 )
And I wish to see a very serious opponent against my Perfect 2015 H4
Actually I will be not surprised in that, because nowadays we have a lot of talented book makers
And with a big possibility we will see better performance than Perfect 2015 + Houdini 4

Note also that book registrations as 'Anonymous' are acceptable too
But however...it will be better with a real name to participate )!
Like 'SedatChess' user name on Playchess server during 2007-2009 years ))

Btw,
I hope to see commercial, free, private opening books too as registered participants )!

Best,
Sedat

[Sedat Canbaz]

The 1st registered book participant for the 2nd tour:
Alexander the Great book by Sergei Markov (Russia)

[Sedat Canbaz]

Hello Chess Friends,

I am pleased to announce:
I started testing Alexander the Great book with Komodo 8 engine !

Alexander the Great will be played against Top 5 participants
Tournament conditions: Gauntlet mode, 20 games, Total 100 games

CCRL SF5
CEGT SF5
HS-7moves plus SF5
Perfect 2015 H4
SSDF H4

More Details:
Firstly all registered books will be played in Gauntlet mode with Komodo 8 engine
Komodo 8 engine will be used against the above Top 5 books (to see less draws)
Later... only the qualified books will be continued of participating...

In the Final:
- Only the qualified books will be played each other in Round-Robin mode
- The Authors of the qualified books will have right to prefer its favorite engine:
Houdini 4 or Komodo 8 or Stockfish 5

*Note that the qualified books means:
- The registered books should be rated better than CEGT SF5

Note also that in case of Whites with e4:
- the Alexander the Great book is highly optimized to play only B90
Sad...it seems the Author of Alexander the Great missed to read my new rules )!
But however, only once I will make a compromise as 1st registered book...

But in the next...if again I will notice only same opening...sorry...
For example, with B90 at 8... h5 I have seen thousands of games )))

Thanks for your understanding and good luck to all players !)

Best,
Sedat

[Sedat Canbaz]

Perfect 2015 + Stockfish 5 has been tested too
Almost same performance as Perfect 2015 + Komodo 8

For Latest Standings:
http://www.sedatcanbaz.com/chess/?page_id=1231

BTW,
Alexander the Great K8's performance so far: 13/30

Best,
Sedat

[Sedat Canbaz]

Alexander the Great book's test is completed:
http://www.sedatcanbaz.com/chess/?page_id=1231

And its performance is 3457 Elo (less than 3500 Elo)
So unfortunately it could not qualify...

Who is the next gladiator )?

Best,
Sedat

[Sedat Canbaz]

New Participated Book Players:
Balanced-12.ctg by Michael Scheidl (Germany)
Bformless.ctg by Emmanuel Dauwe
EightBall.ctg by Nick Carlin (England)
Junior12.ctg by GM Alon Greenfeld (Israel)
H12Book.ctg by by Mark Uniacke (England)

And finely we have a new Leader:
Junior12 book - My Congratulations to GM Alon Greenfeld !
Really I am impressed by Junior12 book performance...well tuned and has not many holes...!)

Note also that since 18.12.2014,
Perfect 2015 SF5 and Perfect 2015 K8 are removed from the database

And as I mentioned before,
I am not candidate to be a Champion, so only Perfect 2015 H4 will be left...

And here are the latest standings (with/without Perfect 2015 SF5/K8 book)

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 # PLAYER                    : RATING    POINTS   PLAYED   (%)
   1 Junior12 K8               : 3508.6      73.5     140   52.5%
   2 HS-7moves plus SF5        : 3502.5     219.0     410   53.4%
   3 CEGT SF5                  : 3500.0     217.5     410   53.0%
   4 CCRL SF5                  : 3499.0     206.5     390   52.9%
   5 Balanced-12 K8            : 3495.8      50.0     100   50.0%
   6 Perfect 2015 H4           : 3494.3     193.0     380   50.8%
   7 Baracuda 2014d SF5        : 3487.2      93.5     180   51.9%
   8 Bformless SF5             : 3484.6      48.5     100   48.5%
   9 SSDF H4                   : 3483.4     187.0     370   50.5%
  10 EightBall SF5             : 3471.3      55.5     120   46.3%
  11 PlayChess H4              : 3469.3      88.5     180   49.2%
  12 DFritz13 K8               : 3467.2      46.0     100   46.0%
  13 ICCF H4                   : 3465.7      87.5     180   48.6%
  14 Alexander the Great K8    : 3463.6      45.5     100   45.5%
  15 FCT K8                    : 3458.5      85.5     180   47.5%
  16 TCEC K8                   : 3444.1      81.5     180   45.3%
  17 H12Book K8                : 3438.2      42.0     100   42.0%
  18 WorldChampions H4         : 3436.9      79.5     180   44.2%

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   # PLAYER                    : RATING    POINTS   PLAYED  (%)
   1 Perfect 2015 SF5          : 3519.3     191.5     360   53.2%
   2 Perfect 2015 K8           : 3514.1     194.5     360   54.0%
   3 Junior12 K8               : 3506.4      73.5     140   52.5%
   4 CEGT SF5                  : 3500.0     262.0     500   52.4%
   5 Perfect 2015 H4           : 3499.0     254.5     500   50.9%
   6 HS-7moves plus SF5        : 3498.6     261.0     500   52.2%
   7 CCRL SF5                  : 3496.4     249.0     480   51.9%
   8 Balanced-12               : 3492.9      50.0     100   50.0%
   9 Bformless SF5             : 3484.2      48.5     100   48.5%
  10 Baracuda 2014d SF5        : 3475.1     100.5     200   50.3%
  11 SSDF H4                   : 3471.1     221.0     460   48.0%
  12 EightBall SF5             : 3470.6      55.5     120   46.3%
  13 PlayChess H4              : 3465.3      97.5     200   48.8%
  14 DFritz13 K8               : 3464.3      46.0     100   46.0%
  15 Alexander the Great K8    : 3460.7      45.5     100   45.5%
  16 FCT K8                    : 3457.1      95.0     200   47.5%
  17 ICCF H4                   : 3453.9      94.0     200   47.0%
  18 TCEC K8                   : 3444.1      91.0     200   45.5%
  19 H12Book K8                : 3435.3      42.0     100   42.0%
  20 WorldChampions H4         : 3432.6      87.5     200   43.8%

More opening books are coming soon !)

Have fun,
Sedat

[Sedat Canbaz]

Breaking News !

Unfortunately,
Junior12 book lost the title...now is as 5th place

And SCCTChampions2014 SF5 is becoming as a new Book Leader !
http://www.sedatcanbaz.com/chess/?page_id=1231

No words to say, exception:
AMAZING ! with 55 % winning percentage against the Top 5 books !!

More details about the current SCCTChampions 2014 book,
The opening book lines are based mainly on games, played by Top 3 in SCCT Book Championships I,II,III 2004

And here are the owners/creators of the current played super strong lines of SCCTChampions2014:
2Xtreme book by John Burchill - 2nd of SCCT CS II
Comet book by Mike Nielsen - 2nd of SCCT CS I
DieHard book by Randy Sands (USA) - the Champion of SCCT CS I
Exodus by Vasid Chouhan (India) - the Champion of SCCT VI and 2nd of SCCT CS III
Guardian Angel by Giuseppe Petruccelli (Italy) - the Champion of SCCT SL III and 2nd of SCCT CS II/III
King Of Legends book by Munish Gupta (India)- the Champion of SCCT CS III
Laguna II book by Baboy - 2nd of SCCT CS I
Rocket X book by Dean Spouse (USA) - the Champion of SCCT CS II
SkIPanda book by Eros Riccio (Italy) - 3rd of SCCT CS I / SCCT CS II


Very soon more SCCT Champion Books are planing to be as participants:
For Examples:
SCCTChampions2008 will be played by Fire 4
SCCTChampions2009 will be played by Komodo 8
SCCTChampions2010 will be played by Stockfish 5
SCCTChampions2012 will be played by Houdini 4
SCCTAntiChampion (based on Champion books losses) will be played by Stockfish 5


And in the final...
It will very very exiting which book will the new Champion of SCCT CS IV )!

Best,
Sedat