Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 06:53:48 05/19/98
Hi all,
Below are some snips from my home page. Hope you like the idea. The
full story, rankings, games, downloading of the games can be found on:
http://www.rebel.nl/cclintro.htm
I expect that next monday there will be new results and updated
rankings.
- Ed Schroder -
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This is a new initiative to make computer chess even more attractive.
Goal is to play thousands of tournament games between the best chess
programs in the world. The chosen form is similar to a normal club
chess competition.
The competition will be called the COMPUTER CHESS LEAGUE or simply CCL.
For the moment we have chosen for the 6 leading programs on the famous
SSDF list to participate in the CCL competition. Later (after the first
two rounds and 1000 games are finished) we will include more chess
programs in the CCL competition. For the moment the participating
programs are:
Mchess 7.1
Shredder 2.0
Hiarcs 6.0
Nimzo 98
Genius 5.0
Rebel 9.0
All these programs support the auto232 protocol which enables to play
automatic games 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all fully automatic.
For the moment 4 identical Pentium-II 266 Mhz machines are used with
64 Mb to play all the games. It's planned later to play the competition
on 6 identical AMD 300 Mhz machines with 64 Mb or 6 identical Intel 400
Mhz machines.
Results and new updated rankings will be reported weekly.
All games played are free downloadable in 4 popular formats (DAT,
CBH, CBF and PGN). Each program will play 2 double rounds (with
white and black). So in total each participant will play 5x2x10
= 100 games. With 6 participants in total 500 tournament games per
round will be played. With 2 rounds this makes a total of 1000 games.
After the first two rounds we like to extend the CCL competition
with 4 other strong chess programs which are also auto232 compatible
so in total 10 participants.
Programmers are welcome to join. With 10 participants we will continue
to play another 2 double rounds (round 3 and 4). From that moment on a
CCL round will take 900 tournament games. With 2 rounds this makes a
total of 1800 games before the winner is known.
Rules are similar to a normal chess club competition, for example:
Each match contains 10 games, the winner gets 2 points, a 5-5 result
scores 1 point, a loss of the match 0 points. The game scores will be
counted as the board points similar in chess club competition and will
be used to create an elo rating.
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Q: What about equal hardware?
A: All programs will always play on EQUAL hardware on 100% identical
Pc's. There will no speed differences and no differences in memory
size. This to ensure a 100% fair competition.
Q: What about good hardware?
A: We strive to play the CCL competition on the best available hardware
currently available. The very first games (50 in total) were played on
4 identical Pentium PRO 200 Mhz machines (of our own) with 32 Mb.
Now matches are played on 4 identical Pentium-II 266 Mhz machines (also
of our own) with 64 Mb which is certainly an improvement and a kind of
standard machine today. However it's our goal to play the CCL
competition on the newest and fastest Pc's available. Sponsor requests
for that are already gone out and are taken into consideration by
several leading hardware companies.
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