Author: Volker Pittlik
Date: 04:22:36 02/25/00
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>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. I think this is a great idea. But why two machines? I don't believe many of the potential volunteers are having two identical computers. I suggest to play game in 30 minutes on dualboards (ponder on) and game in 45 on machines with one CPU (ponder off). On the other hand: if there are enough volunteers with two computers maybe we can add Rebel Decade and the Fritz demo to the tournament. >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: No problem for me. >----------- >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??) That engine causes some trouble for me too, but it works and it is playing not to bad. Similar problems with Monik, MFChess and Pierre (Colchess is not running on my machine at all). I recommend to play a test round at blitz time control and after that to decide what to do with the troublemakers. >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. Yes good ideas, but we need some volunteers. My suggestion: - Frank Quisinsky - Djordje Vidanovic - Kai Skibbe - Mogens Larsen - Christian Koch - Christian Goralski - Arnold Koschorreck - Andreas Schwartmann - Kurt Utzinger - Paul Bedrey - Gabor Szots - WY - Johan Havegheer - Imran Hendley - Uwe Kleinschmidt - Sergio Martinez - Brice Broisel - Wolfgang Draeger - Carlos E. A. Drake - Tournament director: Dann Corbit? Volker
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