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Subject: Re: The Gauntlet

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 10:54:30 05/01/01

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On May 01, 2001 at 12:23:48, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.


On posible option, I'm guessing that you could posibly hack some Winboard code
and provide for something extreme like that and provide a download of it and
it's code at your ftp, but that might turn into a can of worms, you could call
it "Wormboard".



[.......]
>>>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.


Even with long time controls, it sound like this would finish faster than Battle
of the Crowns.

Pete



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