ProDeo 3.0

The BOOK version

ProDeo 3.0

291 Mb

Playing strength first, I collected a number of changes during the last 4 years resulting in a ~35 elo improvement. ~20 elo came from a new idea replacing IID with what I called IIR. A number of other engines (among them Stockfish) adopted the idea.


Polyglot opening books, improved the standard ProDeo opening book with +46 elo, see elsewhere. Created additional books with new options, an overview:

Book

Positions

Analysis with

Content

Link

ProDeo.bin

677.454

Stockfish 12 at depth 20

Made from 2700+ elo rated human games.

USB.bin

30.630.719

Stockfish 12 at depth 16

Searched when the ProDeo book fails to produce a move.

SF12.bin

1.139.350

Average depth 24.35

Made from 48.713 Stockfish 12 games.

Oldies.bin

1.325.105

None

Fun book with all the great players of the 19th and early 20th century.

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Book options

maintained in the book.ini file

[Book File = books\ProDeo.bin]

First book ProDeo will search.

[Book Two = books\usb.bin]

Second book ProDeo will search if first book fails.

[Book Depth = 80]

Maximum plies ProDeo will search books.

[Book Use = vary]

User priority preference, there are 3 options -


vary  - Play varied based on the weight, see one of the 4 screenshots.

score - Play the move with the highest Stockfish 12 score.

learn  - Play the move with the highest learn value.

[WDL Factor = 250]

Randomize the book, in a nutshell, a low value makes a book very random, a high value narrows the book. The following example makes the effect visible and note what happens to the weights of the big-four 1. e4 | 1. d4 | 1. Nf3 | 1. c4

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Remarks


  1. USB.bin is a follow up of the Ultimate Short Book project and only contains opening positions less than the first 11 moves preventing out-booking. The size of the book has been increased from 14 to 31 million positions.                          
  2. External use of the 4 Polyglot books including the ProDeo score and learn options is possible with the POLY tool using the 2 recalculate weights options.                                                                                                                            
  3. Baretail is a tool that immediately updates changed text files on the screen and is automatically loaded at program start. As such one can follow the book moves and its alternatives on the fly. To remove it close it or delete the executable for a permanent solution.                                                                                                                 

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Installation


Unzip the archive somewhere on your hard drive.


ProDeo 3.0 (Winboard and UCI compatible) which you can run in multiple Interrfaces, among them the freeware Arena.


To run ProDeo you will need to announce the engine first.


  • Under Chessbase this means: Engine -> New UCI engine -> Browse -> RebelUCI.exe


  • Under ARENA do: Engines -> New Engine -> UCI -> RebelUCI.exe


  • Under ChessPartner do: Extra -> Engine Import Wizard -> Winboard -> Install -> ProDeo.exe

Credits


Special thanks to:


Stockfish for taking care of the analysis part.


Bare Metal Software for Baretail.



Player Opening Books

7 Mb

Magnus Carlsen

Gary Kasparov

Vishy Anand

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Used PGN - EPD collections

ProDeo.pgn

3.1 Mb

Oldies.pgn

3.9 Mb

SF12.pgn

39.6 Mb

USB.epd

bare

177 Mb

USB.epd

with SF12 analysis

309 Mb