Author: CLiebert
Date: 05:46:12 10/25/05
Everybody who would like to join the tournament please have a look at http://www.beepworld.de/members39/computerschach2/ On Dec. 1 the 5th Online-Masters 2005/2006 begins. It is organized by CSS, the german online computerchess magazine (computerschach.de). It will be conducted in a special tournament room on the Fritz9 Playchess server (www.schach.de). Most participants are using the Fritz interface, which allows engines to play automatically online against each other. Most likely the tournament will go on until late February. 24-30 participants which were entered by users are competing in 4-5 groups of 5-7 programs. Level: 60 minutes per game + 15s per move (fisher-clock). Double round robin, which means that each program will play 12 games in any case. 8 or 16 programs will qualify for the next round and 8 or 4 will play against each other, the winners will play the quarter final and so on. The one who gets 2,5 points first joins the next round, so 3 or 5 games are possible. In case of 2,5:2,5 both will play 10m5s games, same procedure, “2,5 points” wins (then “first win”). Last years winner was Deep Shredder on Quad, Sjeng did it 2003 and Christian Goralski with Gandalf6 in 2002. Stefan Kleinert (CM8000) got the title 2001/02. Will Shredder defend its title? Will the brandnew Deep Gandalf 6 get it again? Or will Zappa on a Quad Machine be unbeatable? What about the brandnew Fritz9? Or Loop List? Or Fruit? A lot of Players are using the very best hardware so the Masters will be the strongest and biggest computerchess-tournament ever played. Some brand new beta-versions like Deep Gandalf or Zappa will play the very first time in public. In summary over 150 games will be played until we know who will win the Online-Masters. The winner will need more than a bit of luck to win this tournament, it has to be a real champion. And there will be a special price for the non-top-single-engine or oldie, too. The “marked engines” will play their own (quarter-), semi- and final-games. Have fun!
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