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Subject: Re: WorldCup 2004 Tournament is going to start !

Author: Sedat

Date: 03:00:54 08/12/04

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On August 12, 2004 at 04:42:56, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>On August 12, 2004 at 03:56:08, Sedat wrote:
>
>>Conditions:
>>-------------------------------
>>
>>*Pentium 4 2.4 GHz 1024 DDRAM
>>*Arena Chess Gui,Hiarcs 9 GUI
>>*Round-Robin,2 Cycles
>>*40 Moves in 5 min
>>*Perfect v6.0.abk
>>*128 MB Hashtable
>>*3-4-5-MEN EGTB
>>*8 MB TB Cache
>>*Ponder off
>>*Resign on
>>
>>Participants:
>>-------------------------------
>
> This tournament would be amazingly interesting (for me), if the time control
>wasn't so fast. Although the hardware is fast, i don't think the results would
>be significant at a time of 5 minutes per 40 moves.
> I understand that there are 51 participants and the tournament would be double
>round robin, so you would have to play 51*50 = 2.550 games, a huge number, but
>in this time control many games (i would guess 30% or more) would not end due to
>engines Chess abilities but due to luck.
>
> Also you can add an engine to be able to play 26 versus 26 and not having 1
>engine out for every round.
>
> Anyway thanks for your great tournaments.

Hi George,

Thanks for your intereting !

Why 51 engines ?!
Becouse i'd like to see for each engine 100 games to be played...

Best,
Sedat






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