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chrisw
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Polyglot Books

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As a community resource, I’ve been on a polyglot book.bin trawl and found quite a few that appear to be free to use. You can find them here in the downloads section https://whittingtonchess.com/

Included are references to where they came from and a check was made that they were neither proprietary nor restricted. If I got anyone wrong, or any of the .bin are actually restricted please let me know and I’ll take the offending one(s) down. Otherwise if a credit is missing let me know.
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Re: Polyglot Books

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This is a great collection — thanks!

You could add Maverick's book. Download here:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/sq5pd2mz ... m2h61&dl=0

For anyone who is interested, the (surprisingly populare) tutorial on how it was created is here:

https://youtu.be/rskcUNoirPU?si=jaAxd3MJ8bBNdBqt

— Steve
http://www.chessprogramming.net - Juggernaut & Maverick Chess Engine
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Re: Polyglot Books

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Steve Maughan wrote: Wed Jun 17, 2026 6:52 pm This is a great collection — thanks!

You could add Maverick's book. Download here:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/sq5pd2mz ... m2h61&dl=0

For anyone who is interested, the (surprisingly populare) tutorial on how it was created is here:

https://youtu.be/rskcUNoirPU?si=jaAxd3MJ8bBNdBqt

— Steve
Thanks, published