On-line blitz tourney April

[hgm]

The on-line engine blitz tourney for April will be on

Saturday April 9, 3pm EST (21:00 CET)

winboard -zp -ics -icshost 80.100.28.169 -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz

should do it for WinBoard engines, add -fUCI if your engine is UCI. Be there in time! (About 10 minutes in advance would be nice...)

[Joost Buijs]

Hi HG,

Last week Bart and myself build a decent PC for Bart to use at his own home.

Unfortunately the problem that Bart gets to see my game each time I start a new one is still there and never the other way around. Now the IP adresses are totally different so it can't be a strange router bug.
It looks like there is something like an 'observe' or 'follow nightmare' command hanging on your server. Can you take a small peek to see what is going on? I don't have any problem with this, but it is really making Bart crazy. LOL

[jshriver]

Can unregistered accounts play in the tourney? If so I could bring at least 4 possibly more engines in to play.

Been running sungorus, trace, phalanx, faile, and critter lately there using unregistered nicks.

-Josh

[Kempelen]

I have never playing any on-line tourney before and am thinking in playing tomorrow. I have a few doubts:
1) What is that server? is fics or ics? if so I have an account, if not I need one......
2) how long does it usually take?


regards,....

[hgm]

We usually play 5 min + 1 sec/move, and 9 or 10 rounds, so it takes 2-2.5 hours. You would need a registered account to play in the tourney. Just PM me the name of your engine and an e-mail address, and I can make one for you.

[hgm]

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:Tourney Players: Round 9 of 9 
:
:     Name              Rating Score Perfrm Upset  Results 
:     ----------------- ------ ----- ------ ------ ------- 
:  1 +Naum              [2284]  8.0  [2094] [   0] +08w +03w =04b =02w +06b +07w +05w +09b +10b 
:  2 +Critter           [2165]  7.5  [2038] [  59] +12w +06w =03b =01b +04w +05b +08w =07w +09b 
:  3 +Nightmare         [1996]  7.5  [2043] [  90] +11w -01b =02w +09b +08w +04b +07b +10w +06b 
:  4 +Zappa             [2002]  6.5  [1929] [ 141] +09w +05b =01w +06w -02b -03w +10b +11w +12b 
:  5 +Goldbaar          [   0]  5.0  [1796] [7541] +07b -04w -06b +11b +09w -02w -01b +12b +08w 
:  6 +Almere            [1780]  4.5  [1806] [   0] +10w -02b +05w -04b -01w +11b +12w =08b -03w 
:  7 +Tinker            [1679]  4.5  [1739] [ 243] -05w =09b =08w +12w +10b -01b -03w =02b +11b 
:  8 +GaviotaRB         [1674]  4.0  [1738] [  56] -01b +11w =07b +10w -03b +12w -02b =06w -05b 
:  9 -Myrddin           [1400]  3.0  [1673] [ 328] -04b =07w +12b -03w -05b =10w +11b -01w -02w
: 10 +Rodin             [   0]  2.0  [1511] [2762] -06b =12b +11w -08b -07w =09b -04w -03b -01w 
: 11 +microMax          [1336]  1.0  [1392] [ 116] -03b -08b -10b -05w +12b -06w -09w -04b -07w 
: 12 +Spartacus         [1452]  0.5  [1354] [ 111] -02b =10w -09w -07b -11w -08b -06b -05w -04w 
:
:     Average Rating    1776.8 
:

[brianr]

I had to leave early, so I was quite surprised to see the Tinker draw v Critter result.
But then I looked at the pgn

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Critter (2171) vs. Tinker (1677) --- Fri Aug 29, 21:55 CEST 1997
Rated blitz match, initial time: 5 minutes, increment: 1 seconds.

Move  Critter            Tinker             
----  ----------------   ----------------
  1.  Nf3     (0:00)     c5      (0:00)  
  2.  c4      (0:00)     Nf6     (0:00)  
  3.  Nc3     (0:00)     Nc6     (0:00)  
  4.  d4      (0:00)     cxd4    (0:00)  
  5.  Nxd4    (0:00)     e6      (0:00)  
  6.  g3      (0:00)     Qb6     (0:00)  
  7.  Ndb5    (0:00)     Ne5     (0:00)  
  8.  Bf4     (0:00)     Nfg4    (0:00)  
  9.  e3      (0:00)     a6      (0:09)  
 10.  h3      (0:00)     axb5    (0:08)  
 11.  hxg4    (0:00)     Qc6     (0:09)  
 12.  Rh5     (0:00)     Nf3+    (0:36)  
 13.  Ke2     (0:13)     Ng1+    (0:00)  
 14.  Ke1     (0:00)     Nf3+    (0:06)  
 15.  Ke2     (0:00)     Ng1+    (0:06)  
 16.  Ke1     (0:00)     Nf3+    (0:08)  
 17.  Ke2     (0:00)  
      {Game drawn by repetition} 1/2-1/2

Tinker was out of book, and hardly a "full" game.
I don't see anything unusual in the log file, so I'm guessing it was just a good book line for Tinker, FWIW.

[jshriver]

Anyone have any info on Naum? Not sure how I missed that one. What I have found so far was that it placed 2nd to Rybka in one of the ICCT.

-Josh