Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:56:03 06/15/00
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On June 15, 2000 at 20:44:19, Peter Kappler wrote:
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>Sorry if this has been asked before, but can you describe the conditions under
>which these games were played? (Time control, hardware, pondering on/off, etc)
The purpose of these games is only to define the initial seedings and groupings
for a round robin tournament.
All the games are played at a time control of G/60 or slower.
The hardware is Pentium II 300 MHz or faster.
After all programs have strength roughly identified to within tolerance, a
round-robin tournament will be held with 4 classes of programs (ranked from one
to four crowns after Volker P's nomenclature).
Within each of the 4 categories (1 star, 2 stars, 3 stars, 4 stars) there will
be 11 or 12 programs. Each of these programs will play each of the others 4
games; playing two games as white and two games as black. The time control for
the tournament will be G/90. This is selected as it will allow 4 games to be
run over-night on a single machine.
When the tournament is completed, we will have a fairly accurate ranking for the
freely available WinBoard engines run without pondering at what ICC or FICS
would call "Standard" time control.
The winner of each division will move up to the next higher classification.
The loser of each division will move down to the next lower division.
The very top and very bottom programs have nowhere to go, so they will be
crowned as "World champion" and "Most playable" {to be charitable}.
You can read a lot more about it over on the WinBoard forum:
http://f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/
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