Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:46:43 02/24/00
Considering the fun "Crown" nomenclature from: http://www.ginko.de/user/volker.pittlik/schach/uebersicht2.htm I have an idea for a tournament. On equally prepared machines, have a round robin tournament for each program in a 'group of crowns' where each program plays each opponent as both white and black. You could use unequal machines, but then you would have to play 4 games for each pair of engines. Four Crowns: ------------ AnMon Comet Crafty Gromit Little Goliath 2K Phalanx SOS Three Crowns: ------------- Amy Ant Arasan Der Bringer Dragon Exchess Fortress GnuChess InmiChess La Dame Blanche Lamb Chop SSEChess The Crazy Bishop Techno ZChess [Suggestion -- Promote Lamb Chop and TCB (Both are 4 I think), maybe Bringer] Two Crowns: ----------- Amyan Averno Cilian Colchess DChess Faile Freyr Monik New Rival OliThink (I have never been able to get OliThink to work, and after it leaves the engine running in memory forever until I kill it with NT task manager. How do you set this rascal up??) SnailChess Tristram One Crown (or unknown crowns): ------------------------- MFChess Noonian Pierre Raffaela Shaki TSCP Here's the idea: After each tournament, the program that wins the tournament gets promoted to the next higher group, and the one that loses gets demoted to the next lower group. The winner of the 4 Crown tournament will bear the title "The Official World's Strongest Freely Available Winboard Engine." This entry could also get a star next to its name in the legend. Besides the four winning categories, there could be some other titles like "Strongest program with source code available" and maybe some boobie prizes as well like "Cellar Dweller" for the program that loses the bottom level tournament and "Crash King" for the one that crashes the most. ;-) The author could be consulted to create the ideal Winboard.ini settings. I think it might foster some fun and some healthy competition. Perhaps it could be played over the internet using volunteers and the 4 games idea to move the tournament quickly. If you had enough volunteers, you could finish the whole tournament in one day.
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