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Subject: Re: The Gauntlet

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:09:06 05/01/01

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On May 01, 2001 at 13:54:30, Pete Galati wrote:
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>>>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.

You can figure roughly 40 engines in the gauntlet.  At two games each per
opponent, it is 80 games per opponent for one gauntlet run.  With 80 engines,
you would have 640 games, which is about half as many games as last time.  But
the games will be at twice the time control, so it will take about the same time
to complete.  I figure 6 months.



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