Author: brian robson
Date: 07:33:56 04/08/99
I am running my own tourney of all available winboard-compatible freewares on my computer. All matches will be played on a single computer(Pentium II 266Mh with 64 Mb Ram). It will be a round-robin multi-games(6 games per match) tourney using swiss-perfect 97. So far I manage to download a total of 25 winboard-compatible chess engines from their respective web sites. These are 1.ant 2.arasan 3.bionic 4.cillian 5.comet 6.crafty 7.crazybishop 8.exchess 9.faile 10.fortress 11.gnuchess 12.litttle goliath 13.goliath gold 14.gromit 15.imnichess 16.jrcp(new program by James Robertson) 17.lchop 18.ldblanche 19.monik 20.phalanx 21.rival 22.skaki 23.ssechess 24.tristram 25.zchess Olithink is excluded because it tends to make a lot of illegal moves thus interrupting the games. Another program Pierre is also not included because it is too weak and has poor time management; it makes all its moves almost immediately irrespective of the time limit. The folowing settings will be used:- 1. Pondering off 2. Each engine has about the same hashtable memory ie. 16Mb 3. No end game database used 4. The latest version of each engine will be used (except cillian) 5. There will be a total of 300 matches(or pairs of engines). Each match will have 6 games. Each game will be a sudden death with 30 minutes per side. Thus there will be a total of 1800 games. 6. Each match will be played automatically in winboard using the following commands: /mg 6 /xreuse /xreuse2 Any one who wish to include their programs in my tourney please let me know. Of course you have to email your program to me or let me download from your web-sites. It will be a great honour to me if anybody would include their program in my tourney. All games will be saved and the results will be posted to this discussion group. I suppose this will be the biggest tourney ever held for winoard engines (in terms of number of participants). I am working on my own program but it is still a long way to go(maybe next year). My email address is : drlwy@yahoo.com Thanks a lot. I am doing this just for the fun of it. By the way I am not sure how to calculate the elo for each engine after the tourney. Can somebody enlighten me on that. It might take months for me to complete this tourney. Bye.
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