Hi chess engine fans,
Below you can download the TCEC 26 Premier Division book and the TCEC 26 superfinal book made by Jeroen Noomen.
TCEC 26 Premier Division
Noomen S26 DivP book
TCEC 26 Superfinal
Noomen S26 superfinal book
Hi chess engine fans,
The TCEC 26 superfinal book was made by Jeroen Noomen in cooperation with Windfishballad. It will be a continuation of the trend I started in season 25: the selected 50 opening lines are from famous Grandmasters of the past. In the list below you can see which famous grandmaster features in which line. The TCEC 26 superfinal will be a kind of tribute to ex-worldchampion Mikhail Tal: 18 of the lines were taken from Tal's games.
In the TCEC 25 superfinal it became clear to me that my usual method wasn't working anymore. Around half of the lines gave a much higher or much lower exit than I anticipated, which made me conclude that it is impossible on my own hardware to estimate the book exit correctly. Hence I asked for help and Windfishballad kindly helped me to analyse several hundredths of chess classics on his very fast hardware, using Stockfish and Leela Chess Zero. From these lines I selected the ones that had the best exits, or the most interesting main lines, or where there was a big difference in exit evaluation, or where engines diverged quite quickly, or a combination of these factors.Hi chess engine fans,
Below you can download the TCEC 25 Premier Division book and the TCEC 25 superfinal book made by Jeroen Noomen.
TCEC 25 Premier Division
Noomen S25 DivP book
TCEC 25 Superfinal
Noomen S25 sufibook
The TCEC 25 superfinal book was made by Jeroen Noomen and will be something completely different from what you were used to. Inspired by GM Matthew Sadler's excellent book 'Re-engineering the chess classics' - a book that I can recommend to every chess enthousiast! - I decided that it was time for a change.
The TCEC 25 superfinal book consists of:
Hi all,
Here is an update of Rebel.bin, the polyglot openingbook I made for Rebel in 2022. With lots of improvements, additions and new stuff. For more information visit my previous posting about the Rebel book:
https://blogchess2016.blogspot.com/2022/10/a-new-noomen-openingbook-for-rebel.html
Download link:
Openingbook Rebel.bin
To browse through the book you need a GUI that supports polyglot books. An example is SCID:
SCID
Enjoy the new book!
Here you can download the TCEC 24 superfinal book, made by International Grandmaster Matthew Sadler and Jeroen Noomen. Both selected 25 lines for this book. The odd numbered lines are by GM Sadler, the even numbered ones by Jeroen.
Stockfish held it's title by beating Leela Chess Zero in the superfinal. The margin was small, though. It has been a while since there was such a close superfinal, we have to go back to season 14, when Stockfish also beat Leela, but with only a one point difference.
TCEC 24 superfinal book
Here you can download Jeroen Noomen's TCEC season 24 Premier Division book:
Noomen S24 DivP book
This PGN contains 112 lines with a high-very high bias. Each round of four lines has a specific theme. F.e. round 1 = King's Indian, round 2 = Sicilian and so forth.
Also available: the TCEC season 24 Premier Division Playoff book and all the games of the Premier Division without comments:
Noomen S24 DivP playoff book
Games Premier Division S24 in PGN
Enjoy testing!