Author: Pete Galati
Date: 22:25:02 04/30/01
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On April 30, 2001 at 23:14:38, Dann Corbit wrote:
>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.
What long time control is that? Is there a standard time that's considered
"long time control?
>
>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.
I'm not clear on this part at all. Are you saying you're not allowing upgrades
that happened since the Battle of The Crowns? Maybe if I knew what was new with
Yace, I'd understand this paragraph better, did Yace get a major rewrite?
So, anyhow, what programs are scheduled to run in this at this point? Is it
convenient to post a list?
Pete
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