Uptown 3.0

This is the version of Uptown that came in 13/41 in SCCT IX. It has not been updated since the tournament, so some lines may not be up to date.

http://www.multiupload.com/O4BCT1HQ4A

password: 03Upt0wn30

Uptown 3.0 & SCCT IX

Sedat has once again graciously hosted another book tournament, SCCT IX, beginning on 10 October.

I'm happy to report that a new Uptown book has been created, and will be entered into the tournament.

I enjoy the tournaments and seeing how the results of my hard work compare to those of the other excellent book makers, but I do not have any plans to return to regular bookmaking. If Sedat has an SCCT X tournament, I may participate in that as well, but for now Uptown 3.0 will be the last book for some time.

It will be made public, as with all of my books, once SCCT IX is complete.

Uptown 3.0 and I will see you all at SCCT IX. :)

-Brandon

2.1 released

Download link over there --->

Password = pioner_Uptown21

Uptown 2.1

Uptown 2.1 has been finalized and entered into the latest Pioner tournament. Obviously with the release of Rybka 4 since the latest tournament things have changed significantly, and we'll see how Uptown 2.1 + Rybka 4 works together.

Regardless of the outcome, Uptown 2.1 will be made public within the next few days. This will also be the last book I publish for a while, I'm taking a break from book making to focus on other things.

Thanks for reading!

Brandon

Uno

Well, looks like the new approach worked! First place, and by a pretty impressive margin! 52 elo and 8% above the next closest book.

Thanks everyone for all the PM's, comments and emails, I appreciate it.

I know everyone is interested in using the book, and I absolutely promise to make it public. It's just a matter of when. I'd like to get in one more tournament before making it public (SCCT?!) and we have a big holiday coming up here in the US.

As soon as I decide to make it public, I will post it on a few forums, as well as on this website.

Uptown 2.0

Uptown 2.0 is finally out. It is completely re-written based on 100% games played on my hardware. No external games from any source were used or imported!

It takes a very unique approach to opening moves. I haven't seen any book do anything similar, and in my testing it seems to be working very well. Uptown 2.0 has been entered in the latest Pioner tournament, so hopefully we should find out just how successful this strategy is!

Midtown 1.0 for download

I've started from scratch on a new book, so Midtown is not going to be updated.

Midtown takes a very hypermodern approach to openings, playing a lot of Larsen openings (1.b3) and pirc/modern defense as black. This can result in some very dangerous situations, but it will almost certainly throw a lot of people out book early. I would recommend that if you use this book, you have at least a quad-core PC. If you play with Midtown using a dual-core PC against someone with a quad-core, you will probably lose. This is just the way hypermodern strategies work, they rely heavily on an opponent making a mistake.

Hope you enjoy, but like I said, be careful how you use it. :)

Please see this forum post for download location.


Brandon