Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 09:19:34 05/01/01
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On May 01, 2001 at 02:38:32, Jason Williamson wrote:
>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.
Yes, that's the idea of a gauntlet I guess. Each of the newest version of each
chess engines will take on a string of older versions of Crafty,Comet [for
example] and other selected Chess engines that were used during the battle of
the crowns.
I suppose the best scoring engines against this selected group of older engines
will go on to the next round.
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