Uptown Tournament results

Here are the results from my internal tournament that ran over two days. Now I'm not claiming that these are ideal conditions, in fact they don't even replicate Sedat or PionerChess's time controls, but I think it does provide a good idea that Uptown 1.0 is ready for the world.

Apologies for the image, I have yet to figure out how to export tournament results from the Fritz GUI without them looking like crap.

Brandon

Uptown 1.0 is complete

I finished Uptown 1.0 this morning, and submitted it to Sedat for the SCCT tournament this afternoon. I'll post the results of my internal proving tournament when it completes, but so far Uptown 1.0 is in first place.

I am running the tournament as 1+0 with Rybka 3 for all books. 128MB Hash. The following is the list of books in the tournament.

1 - Uptown 1.0
2 - Matrix2Dx64
3 - NoWay3.0
5 - MontFerrat 2010
6 - Il konte 3.9
7 - Zeeman 1.3
8 - MyBook 19
9 - LesChats 1c
10 - Don 9
11 - Firestarter
12 - FlyorDie 1.1

Full results in ~ 2 days, when the tournament completes.

Uptown v 1.0

I received the information I needed from Sedat, so I have begun compiling all of my research and game databases to create Uptown 1.0, which will be participating in the latest SCCT tournament.

It will be a very strong book, and I expect it to do well.

To be honest, I was planning on releasing it to the public after the tournament had started (25 January). I'm undecided if I should release it on 25 January, or wait until the SCCT tournament has been completed. I'm not sure what I'll do.

On a similar note, I did confirm that Uptown v0.06 (latest public release) was entered into the Pioneerchess tournament, which began 16 January and is expected to finish 25 January.

Uptown v 0.06 is a good book, but I know for a fact that some of the competitors have stronger books. I'll be interested to see the final tournament results, but I do not expect Uptown v 0.06 to place in the top 10. Anything is possible though, we'll just have to wait for the results.

Thanks for reading, next post will be after I submit Uptown 1.0 to the SCCT Tournament.

-Brandon

Uptown improvements

Things have been quiet on the Uptown Chess blog, but that doesn't mean things have been quiet with the Uptown opening book. Ever since releasing v0.06 I've been working on the next great release. While I was pleased with the performance of v0.06, I've received over 1,800 games from some very helpful users which pitted Uptown v0.06 against some of today's strongest opening books. Those games have helped identify a number of weak lines, as well as improper variation weighting. I'm proud to announce the next version of Uptown should be released within the next week. Right now I'm targeting 23 January, but that will depend on a few things. The most important factor is Sedat's tournament start date. Obviously I want to keep the book private until I have confirmation that the tournament has been started, and no more submissions are allowed. At that point, I will be releasing the book to the public.

While I won't go into the technical details of the changes to the latest version of Uptown, I will share some results with you. All of these are Rybka 3 @ 1+0.

As you can see, things are going well. I look forward to the outcome of Sedat's tournament, and I'm hopeful that Uptown will do very well.

Brandon

Some new books

This will be slightly old news for many of you that follow opening books closely, but my good friend Edmond has released his newest book, Il_Konte 3.9. He's put a lot of hard work into it, and it shows. A very strong book. You can download it here.

Some other books that I like, that are relatively new.

• No Way 3.0 (it's very big, but strong). Download here.
• Montferrat, by Jordi Ruiz. Download here. Settings here.

v0.06 Download

http://www.multiupload.com/7SKT18QO2B

v0.06 Results

Download database from this tournament.



No download available at this time


I also ran a test against the Hiarcs 12.1 book, as a suggested by a very knowledgable person. Here are the results from those tests (1+0, 3+0).

Uptown v0.06 Initial Results

Looks like a large improvement over version 0.05.

I'm very happy with this version, seems much stronger in many aspects than Uptown 0.05.






More results from my internal book tournament with Uptown v0.06, Canon Closed 2, Hurriance 3, and Famine tomorrow. Most likely I will post the download link tomorrow as well.

BrandonSi

Updated Version

Well, this is a bit embarrassing, but I'm new to making books after all. I'm always learning! I did get some very good feedback from a few users and there's a pretty big issue with a few lines in Uptown v0.05. While it did very well against most books, it got simply destroyed when those "problem lines" were played. I've since updated the book, and am in the process of verifying this is resolved.

As a result, I've removed the download links, and will replace them with the updated book soon.

I've also shared a few emails with the fine folks over at Pioneerchess and Sedat, from the famous SCCT tournaments and hopefully Uptown should be a contestant in their next tournaments.

I will be releasing the latest version of Uptown (0.06) in the next few days, along with the results from my internal tests.

Tournament Games

I've decided to share the first 100 games Uptown played against Zeeman, Les Chats and MyBook 19. I will make them available for download this evening, or tomorrow, depending on how much time I have tonight.

For those of you interested, I'll also be posting the continued results of the tournament I shared the initial results from.

Download Links

Uptown v0.06

http://www.multiupload.com/7SKT18QO2B

Uptown 05 Tournament Results Tomorrow

After 4 internal revisions of my Uptown book, I'm finally running it against other books, including MyBook 19, Les Chats 1.0, Zeeman 1.3.

Assuming it doesn't fail miserably (my initial tests were promising) I'll be posting the results tomorrow and releasing the book shortly.

For reference, the hardware I'm using is a Dell Dimension E510.

Processor : Intel Pentium D 2.6Ghz
Memory (RAM) : 512MB


All games are 3+0, hash is unified at 64MB.

Book options (applied to every book)

• Use Book - Checked
• Tournament Book - Checked
• Variety of Play - Minimum
• Influence of Learn Value - maximum
• Learning Strength - Minimum
• Minimum Games - 1
• Up to Move - 99