Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 09:23:48 05/01/01
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On May 01, 2001 at 12:19:34, Aaron Tay wrote:
>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?
My notion was 40/2 + G/2hrs, but winboard does not support that. So I will
probably just play Game in 4 hours.
>>>>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.
That is the general idea. However, not all BOC engines will participate. In
particular, engines that crashed, that had illegal moves, did not start n-games
in a row reliably, etc. will not be used. Probably about 40 engines will form
the gauntlet. There will be twice as many engines particpating in the contest
besides the "originals" from the previous contest.
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