Frank's Chess Page, FEOBOS

FEOBOS crew ...
Frank Quisinsky / Klaus Wlotzka, ... current: v20.00.e3.00-124
helps by Ferdinand Mosca / Norm Pollock

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Ž FEOBOS: Copyright Frank Quisinsky (Germany)
Ž FEOBOS & KECR Excel workbooks: Copyright Klaus Wlotzka (Germany)
Ž Game-Extractor & Positions Explorer & SPF-Tool: Copyright Ferdinand Mosca (Philippines)
Positions Explorer: http://poseval.bitballoon.com/ (please wait a while for loading)
Game Extractor v1.3 (2.61Mb), the SPF-Tool is included in the current FEOBOS version.

Last changes: April 05th, 2018, 16:30

GoTo inside these site ...
Downloads, Dia-Show, Update History, Readme, Next steps, FEOBOS GUI settings

London Heathrow Airport, February 2017 (pic by myself)
We are working with strongest engines and full power too!
And are clear for take-off on runway FEOBOS v20.1

"Download Project Cockpit"

All download files = 278,11Mb
(FEOBOS project is over, March 05th, 2018)

FEOBOS basic files:

download = 26,02Mb

main files before analysis
- empty Excel file
- databases (*.epd / *.pgn)

FEOBOS books:

download = 56,28Mb

v20.1 (final)
- 6 books (*.bin / *.bkt / *.ctg)
- databases (*.epd / *.pgn)

FEOBOS analysis:

download = 59,16Mb

(*.epd / *.csv)
13 engines x 41.614 positions
540.982 of 540.982 ready

FEOBOS Excel:

download = 84,72Mb

Excel 2010 or higher required
v20.00.e3.00-124 (*.xlsb),
v1.75 (docu in *.pdf)

KECR Excel:

download = 30,90Mb

Excel 2010 or higher required
v13.00-35 (*.xlsb),
v2.9 (docu in *.pdf)

German Docu:

download = 21,34Mb

excel dia-show = 6,33Mb

docu.pdf = 4,45Mb, v1.04

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The core idea of this project!
Excel workbooks (FEOBOS, KECR) by Klaus Wlotzka
With v20.00.e3.00-124 means: v20 FEOBOS standard engines / .00 = 00% of still running engine analyses /
e3 FEOBOS experimental engines / .00 = 0% of still running engine analyses / -124 = version number of Excel workbook!

DIA-Show Click on diagrams to enlarge! FEOBOS v20.00.e3.00-124 (final version): An Excel workbook with 700.337 of formulas! Looking in DNA of engines & A00-E99 opening systems!


01. "Start FEOBOS" Project overview!	02. "Settings" Command center!	03. "Eval" Rejected positions in detail	04. "Eval exp 1" Engine eval details	05. "Eval exp 2" Engine eval details as graphic

06. "Eval exp 3" Engine eval details as graphic	07. "Engines exp." For other engines!	08. "ECO" ECO stats	09. "pieces on board" Add. stats can be formed	10. "Moves" Stats to the first move

11. "Engines 1" Some useful engine stats	12. "Engines 2" Engine similarities 1 (pos.)	13. "Engines 3" Engine similarities 2 (in %)	14. "Eval out 1" Sort features (important)!	15. "Eval out 2" Sort features (important)!

16. "EPD tool" Try it out, HIGHLIGHT!	17. "Test-Set" Ranking features!	18. "Random" Select a Test-Set by random	19. "Rescue" Rescue rejected position	20. "Cleaning tool" Useful for reject positions!

21. "Set by hand" For manually input!	22. "FEOBOS" Tool by Ferdinand Mosca	23. "Ranking" v4 FEOBOS Ranking System!	24. "Engine results" Engine EPD's	25. "Info" Additional information


German: Anleitung v1.75 (*.pdf will be open)
DIA-Show Click on diagrams to enlarge! KECR v13.00-35 (final version): An Excel workbook with 94.553 formulas! An ranking system to ECO codes!


01. "Rating List" Project overview!	02. "Rating_all_ECO" Ratings for each ECO code!	03. "Database" Engine analysis / settings	04. "Statistics" Statistics 1	05. "Statistics" Statistics 2

06. "Comparsion Build your engine comparsion	07. "Timeline" History information


German: Anleitung v2.9 (*.pdf will be open)

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Update History

end of analysis!
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- February 24th, 2018   ve3: Senpai 2.0 BMI2 x64
- January 26th, 2018    v20: Komodo 11.22 x64
- January 14th, 2018    v19: ASMFishM 20170814 BMI2 x64
- January 03rd, 2018    v18: Andscacs 0.91 BMI2 x64
- December 27th, 2017   ve2: Junior 13.3.00 x64
- December 23rd, 2017 v17: Texel 1.07a9 x64
- December 10th, 2017   v16: Booot 6.2 POP x64
- November 28th, 2017   v15: Chiron 4 x64
- November 16th, 2017   v14: Wasp 2.01 BMI2 x64
- November 04th, 2017   v13: Fire 5 POP x64
- October 23rd, 2017    v12: Shredder 13 x64
- October 13th, 2017    v11: Houdini 5.01 Pro x64
- September 26th, 2017 ve1: Spark 1.0 x64
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- September 24th, 2017 v10: Komodo 11.22 x64
- September 05th, 2017 v09: ASMFishM 20170814 BMI2 x64
- August 21st, 2017     FEOBOS with move transpositions overworked, positions rejects by hand!
- August 18th, 2017     FEOBOS without move transpositions based since v8 on our ranking system, thanks Ferdinand!
- August 16th, 2017     v08: Andscacs 0.91 BMI2 x64
- August 12th, 2017     upd.1: 15.468 new positions worked into FEOBOS basic files.
- July 26th, 2017       v07: Texel 1.07a9 x64
- July 12th, 2017       v06: Booot 6.2 POP x64
- June 12th, 2017       v05: Chiron 4 x64
- May 24th, 2017        v04: Wasp 2.01 BMI2 x64
- May 06th, 2017        v03: Fire 5 POP x64
- April 16th, 2017      v02: Shredder 13 x64
- March 27th, 2017      v01: Houdini 5.01 Pro x64

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Readme
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Time of project:      15 months
~ Release date:      March 2018
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A) BASICS: 26.146 positions ...

You can find here 26.146 positions of selected "FCP Rating List" games (~ 80%), newer missed
grandmasters theory games from 2014-2016 (~ 5%) and additional game material, most based on rare
opening lines (~ 15%).

Games are from selected "FCP Rating List" material based on my own "FCP Live Book", that
were under many years of development. With my own "FCP Live Book" engines try to find often
new lines on its own after the end of ECO code lines.

Summarized, my basics comes from:

- high quality TOP-50 computer chess games on IntelŽ Core i7-4770K hardware with 4Ghz and
40 moves in 10 minutes with an Elo average from around ~ 2950 - 2975.
- high quality correspondence games
- high quality grandmaster games
I am working most of times with Chessbase & TWIC databases.

Before I start the project, my work files was cleaned and where analyzed with:

1. Stockfish January 16th, 2017 BMI2 x64
   Setting: > 0.50 / -0.30
2. Komodo 10.3 x64
   Setting: > 0.50 / -0.30

- IntelŽ Core i7-4770K, 4.0 GHz
- 4 Cores / 8 Threads (Hyperthreading)
- Windows 7 Professional
- 4Gb for hash tables
- 30 seconds per end position
- eval = 0.50 / -0.30

B) Upd.1: 15.468 positions ...

During the project, I saw different holes in my 26.146 database and I am searching in good
known theory relevant sources. I am building a new work file in combination with current
GM games on high level undo end of June 2017 and much other collected material from the
last months. Furthermore, more lines to rarely ECO codes searched / added.

Again, this "upd.1" work file was cleaned and where analyzed with the same engines I am
using for the 26.146 basic database:

1. Stockfish 8 BMI2 x64
   Setting: > 0.50 / -0.30
2. Komodo 10.3 x64
   Setting: > 0.50 / -0.30

- IntelŽ Core i7-4770K, 4.0 GHz
- 4 Cores / 8 Threads (Hyperthreading)
- Windows 7 Professional
- 4Gb for hash tables
- 30 seconds per end position
- eval = 0.50 / -0.30

As result I can offer a database with 15.468 new positions (without move transpositions,
most 3 moves after ECO code was formed).

= 41.614 new basic positions without dublicates and without move transpositions.
= 93.794 new basic positions without dublicates and with move transpositions.

Main interest:
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- a strong PGN database for engine-engine matches / tourneys / rating list systems to
balanced lines with clearly lesser probability in avoid fast draws (3-fold repetition).
- a strong PGN database for openings book developers.
You can add the final FEOBOS result to your own opening book if you like.
- a strong PGN database for Arena Chess GUI "PGN-Random" feature.
- a strong PGN database, positions are sorted with a ranking system (database without
move transpositions) for building any Test-Set for engine research.

- opening book in Shredder Classic GUI *.bkt format
- opening book in Chessbase GUI *.ctg format
- opening book in Polyglot *.bin format

Additional information:
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- length of lines = most 3 moves after the ECO code was formed, minimal 4-6 moves.
Please have a look in the file: "__eco-code-length.txt" (can be found in basics)
- since FEOBOS v8 the opening books without move transpositions based on our own
FEOBOS ranking system.
- With analyses of "Experimental engine" (*.epd files) you can replace "Standard
engines" if you like. With worksheet "Engines exp." you can compare results
between "Standard engines" and "Experimental engines".

Used material:
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- International opening keys by Sergiu Samarian, ISBN: 3-88805-299-8
- Small Encyclopedia of chess openings, ISBN: 978-86-7297-060-9
http://www.chessinformant.org/small-encyclopedia-of-chess-openings-3rd-edition/
- TWIC & different other sources of games!
http://theweekinchess.com/

- Professional workbooks by Klaus Wlotzka
- 40H chess tools by Norm Pollock, http://40h.000webhostapp.com/
"epdOrder.exe", "epdList.exe", "epdInsert", "idOpcode.exe", "epdFin.exe", "pgnFin.cmd",
"epdTrim.exe", "truncate.exe", "summary.exe" & "ecolist.exe", tagInsert.exe, txtZeros.exe
- PGN Extract by David J. Barnes, https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/djb/pgn-extract/
- ELOstat by Dr. Frank Schubert, http://www.amateurschach.de/main/_download.htm
- Tools by Ferdinand Mosca, http://www.amateurschach.de/main/_download.htm
- Chessbase 14, http://www.chessbase.com
- Fritz 15, http://www.chessbase.com
- Shredder 13 by Stephan Meyer-Kahlen, http://www.shredderchess.com
- Polyglot by Fabien Letouzey & Huang Chen & Harm Gert Muller & Fonzy Bleumers
http://hgm.nubati.net/polyglot.exe (Polyglot 2.0.3)
https://github.com/ddugovic/polyglot
http://hardy.uhasselt.be/Toga/polyglot-release/
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man6/polyglot.6.html
https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/PolyGlot
Polyglot Book Creator v0.1 by Ferdinand Mosca:
http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=711024&t=63635
Polyglot Book Creator v0.2 by Ferdinand Mosca:
http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=711153&t=63635
- Notepad ++ by Dan HO, https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

- OS: Windows 10 Professional, Windows 7 SP1 Professional x64
- Engines for analyses, http://www.amateurschach.de/main/_engines.htm

Helping persons:
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- Klaus Wlotzka, Germany
Developing of professional Excel workbooks!
- Ferdinand Mosca, Philippines
"Game Extractor" to extract games in *.pgn format from a given pgn file!
"Positions Explorer" and epd file with analysis or ce opcode!
"SPF-Tool" to insert ranking number and sort *.pgn database to ranking number!
- Norm Pollock, USA
without Norm and his tools / helps many things here aren't possible!
- Stefan Pohl, Germany
some hints to the beginning of the project!

Other helps and hints are welcome anytime!

January 29th, 2018 (23:00)
Frank Quisinsky, Trier (Germany)

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Next steps

Engine analyses:
FEOBOS analysis by "Experimental engines": Final with ve3 around February 28th, 2018

Documentation:
Project documentation in German language: Restarted January 2018 (not ready yet)

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FEOBOS v20.1 (January 29th, 2018)
Frank's Encyclopaedia Of Balanced Opening Systems

Note: Please be informed that FEOBOS v20.1 based on FEOBOS ranking system!

In download file you can find 5x *.ctg, 5x *.bkt & 5x *.bin opening books without move transpositions
and 1x *.ctg, 1x *.bkt & 1x *.bin opening books with move transposition (not calculated with our rating system)
Adjust your own book setting! Please have a look in the following FEOBOS examples:

155.220 moves based on
Ranking position number 1 - 33.009 of 41.614 = Contempt 3,
most 3 moves after A00-E99 ECO codes formed!

Opening Book for Shredder GUI

You have to set the "IMPORTANT Book Options" under Shredder GUI!
Priority's & 1-0, 0:1 stats no longer necessary with a clean database!
With the result that we can offer very small opening books.

And the same for Chessbase GUI

Highest length in one of the 500 ECO codes is 17 moves.
Variety of play is 260 for an example. Of course, can be adjust if you like.
It's required or different ECO codes never played!

Shredder GUI made it better with 0.1% steps
as Chessbase GUI with 0.4% steps!

In download directory can be found an *.bin opening book (Polyglot format) too.

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