Author: brain
Date: 02:12:42 04/09/99
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That's a very exciting thing to do. 2 Questions: (a) Are you allowing change of engine if a newer version of it is put up during the period of the long match? (b)skaki & jrcp what're the URLs to get a copy of these 2? Thanks. On April 08, 1999 at 10:33:56, brian robson wrote: >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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