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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