Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 23:38:32 04/30/01
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On May 01, 2001 at 01:25:02, Pete Galati wrote:
>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
If I am understanding Corbit's idea, the new engines, such as the new version of
Yace play the Battle of the crown engines.
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