The Rybka 3 opening book
by Jeroen Noomen
for Rybka 3 Aquarium Interface

The Rybka Aquarium book was prepared by Jeroen Noomen, a Rybka team member who is responsible for Rybka’s opening book in its official competitions, including the World Computer Chess Championship which has been won by Rybka for two years running. Jeroen is a leading expert on opening theory, and his imaginative opening innovations have secured Rybka many critical wins. His research methods and analysis tools ensure that his opening books are of great interest to all chessplayers, from the club player to the strongest grandmasters.

High-Quality Up-to-Date Games and Analysis

The book focuses on the best games of the top GM’s (2600 elo or more) in the past two years, as well as the best computer games of the past two years. Additionally, the Rybka Aquarium book is strongly supported by computer checked analysis, and will give you fresh and new ideas that are not published in any opening book yet, and can give you a clear edge in opening preparation compared to chess players that do not have this opening information available.

As compared with the download package, this DVD package additionally includes the following files that can be used together with Jeroen book:

• Latest statistical tree built from 3 million games (requires 700 MB on disk)

• Trees with computer evaluations of positions (650 MB)

• Aquarium update up to version 3.1.1

• Electronic i-Book “Middle Game In Chess”