Playing conditions:
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Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz (E6600)
WinBoard 4.5TM GUI
128MB hash
ponder off
1 CPU
25 min + 1sec/move
Replacements are allowed (but no guarantee as to when they can be performed!)
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1. Bihasa Ferdinand Mosca
2. Joker80 H.G. Muller
3. SMIRF Reinhard Scharnagl
4. TJchess10x8 Tony Hecker
5. Nebiyu Daniel Shawul
6. Spartacus H.G. Muller
7. TSCP Gothic Tom Kerrigan / Michel Langeveld
8. Sjaak Evert Glebbeek
9. Fairy-Max H.G. Muller
10.Heretic Martin Sedlak
11.ChessV Gregory Strong
12.ArcBishop80 Matthias Gemuh
13.BigLion80 Matthias Gemuh
The tournament will start with a qualifier, played as a round-robin between numbers 5-10 of the above list. The three top-finishers will join 1-4 for the playoffs, a round-robin of seven. The three lowest-ranked engines of the qualifier will join 11-13 for the second-division, a round-robin of 6. Result from the qualifier will continue to count in the playoffs and second division, i.e. games between engines that both were in the qualifier will not be played again in the playoffs and second division.
There will be 8 games per pairing, from 4 different initial positions, each played with both colors. The initial positions are:
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rnbqckabnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNBCQKABNR w KQkq - 0 1 (Gothic)
rnabqkbcnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNABQKBCNR w KQkq - 0 1 (Capablanca)
rnbcqkabnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNBCQKABNR w KQkq - 0 1 (Bird)
ranbqkbncr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RANBQKBNCR w KQkq - 0 1 (Carrera)
The highest-ranked engine of the playoffs can call itself "Battle-of-the-Goths general 10x8-chess champion 2012".
Games within one cycle will be played automatically through WinBoards intrinsic tournament manager, and can be viewed live through a JavaScript-enabled internet browser at
http://80.100.28.169/gothic/chess.html
This broadcast uses the ChessLive! viewer system, which includes a possibility for the spectators to chat about the game.