Author: James Robertson
Date: 10:40:21 06/16/00
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On June 15, 2000 at 20:56:03, Dann Corbit wrote:
>On June 15, 2000 at 20:44:19, Peter Kappler wrote:
>
>>
>>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}.
How about 5 crowns and 0 crowns? :)
James
>
>You can read a lot more about it over on the WinBoard forum:
>http://f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/
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