Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 20:14:38 04/30/01
This is an announcement relating to a Winboard chess engine contest that is to
take place shortly.
The contest will be performed at long time control, and a large number of
matches will occur for each engine.
Any engine which participates must be publicly available, free of charge.
Any opening book which is used must be publicly available, free of charge.
If you would like to keep your engine out of the contest, please let me know.
If you have a new engine or update that you would like included, please let me
know immediately (perhaps one week from now it will definitely be too late).
The format of the contest will be as follows:
Each engine in the contest will compete against a large list of programs ["the
gauntlet"] from the former contest ("The Battle Of The Crowns") with engines
coming from all divisions. Some problematic engines will not be included in the
gauntlet. For each engine match, the engine will play as both white and black
for each pairing to attempt some degree of fairness.
The engines must be able to run under Windows 2000 and under Winboard.
Engines which repeatedly post illegal moves or crash will be disqualified. Any
results will simply be discarded.
The 'gauntlet' engines will be exactly those engines which took place in the
"Battle Of The Crowns" and so (for instance) the new Yace entrant for the
contest would be paired against an earlier version of itself at some point in
time.
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