On-line engine blitz tourney April

[hgm]

The monthly on-line engine blitz tourney for April will take place on:

Saturday April 16, 3pm Boston time (21:00 Amsterdam time)

To connect:

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

(for UCI engines, add -fUCI)

[Stan Arts]

But..it's the Roadburn festival in Tilburg did you forget? Dead to a dying world and Neurosis 30 year anniversary concert on the one hand, a chance to play Skipper on the other.

[Joost Buijs]

Roadburn is something you don't want to miss, exactly my kind of music!

I guess that when you bring your engine online tomorrow, Harm Geert will join it manually and you'll still have the opportunity to play skipper, of course you will miss all the the excitement.

[cetormenter]

I will be away from my computer when this tournament starts. However I am logged in if you could auto join me that would be great. The version of Nirvana that is playing will be the same one that will be playing TCEC so hopefully it performs well!

[Daniel Anulliero]

Good!
I will be here for the funniest CC event of the month !

[stegemma]

Wow! Just in time to test Satana 2.3.18.

I'll be with you tonight!

[hgm]

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:Tourney Players: Round 9 of 9 
:
:     Name              Rating Score Perfrm Upset  Results 
:     ----------------- ------ ----- ------ ------ ------- 
:  1 +Almere            [1919]  7.5  [2130] [ 539] +21w +08w +13b +02w +05b -04w +11b =03w +09b 
:  2 +Fizbo             [2091]  7.0  [2111] [  11] +19b +07w +06w -01b +14w =10b +04b +09w =03b 
:  3 +Nirvanachess      [2101]  6.5  [2047] [   0] +16w =10w +07b =04w =06b +05w +12b =01b =02w 
:  4 -ArasanX           [2034]  6.5  [2058] [  64] +20w +14b =09w =03b +11w +01b -02w =05w +10b 
:  5 +WaDuuttie         [2017]  5.5  [1926] [  88] +17w +11w =10b +09b -01w -03b +15w =04b =07w 
:  6 +Goldbar           [1952]  5.5  [1890] [  74] +18w +15w -02b +08b =03w -09b =10w +12w =13b 
:  7 -Arminius          [1745]  5.5  [1882] [ 485] +23w -02b -03w +22b =09w =15b +08b +10w =05b 
:  8 +Spartacus         [1617]  5.5  [1670] [  40] +28w -01b +22b -06w +21w =14b -07w +19b +15w
:  9 +NightmareX        [2097]  5.0  [1908] [   0] +12w +13w =04b -05w =07b +06w +14b -02b -01w 
: 10 +NightmareA        [1918]  5.0  [1897] [ 243] +22w =03b =05w +12w +13b =02w =06b -07b -04w 
: 11 -Zurichess         [1635]  5.0  [1677] [   0] +27w -05b +18w +20b -04b +19w -01w -15b +16w 
: 12 +Joker             [1572]  5.0  [1767] [ 189] -09b +24w +16w -10b +23b +13w -03w -06b +20w 
: 13 +Bliep             [1758]  4.5  [1667] [  97] +24w -09b -01w +15b -10w -12b +25b +18w =06w 
: 14 -Telepath          [1686]  4.5  [1608] [   0] +25b -04w +17w +19b -02b =08w -09w -16b +28b 
: 15 +rpiTogaII         [1623]  4.5  [1624] [  73] +26w -06b +21w -13w +18b =07w -05b +11w -08b 
: 16 +Lozza             [1575]  4.5  [1533] [ 111] -03b -22w -12b +27w +17w +21b =18w +14w -11b
: 17 +rpiFruit          [1463]  4.5  [1347] [   0] -05b +27w -14b -23w -16b +26w +28b =21w +25b 
: 18 +Barbarossa        [1435]  4.5  [1503] [ 189] -06b +26w -11b +25b -15w +23w =16b -13b +19w 
: 19 -Schooner          [1554]  4.0  [1508] [   0] -02w +23b +24b -14w +20w -11b +22w -08w -18b 
: 20 +KingSlayer        [1465]  4.0  [1404] [   0] -04b +25w +27b -11w -19b +24w -23b +22w -12b 
: 21 +Floyd             [1424]  4.0  [1376] [  19] -01b +28w -15b +26w -08b -16w =24b =17b +23w 
: 22 +rpiMinkoChess     [1409]  4.0  [1411] [ 166] -10b +16b -08w -07w +26b +25w -19b -20b +27w 
: 23 -Isa               [1273]  4.0  [1393] [ 475] -07b -19w +28b +17b -12w -18b +20w +24w -21b 
: 24 +microMax          [1366]  3.5  [1252] [  29] -13b -12b -19w +28w +27b -20b =21w -23b +26w
: 25 -Skipper           [1125]  2.5  [1182] [   0] -14w -20b =26b -18w +28b -22b -13w +27b -17w 
: 26 +Embla             [1035]  2.5  [1137] [  82] -15b -18b =25w -21b -22w -17b +27w +28w -24b 
: 27 -Satana            [1072]  1.0  [1021] [   0] -11b -17b -20w -16b -24w +28w -26b -25w -22b 
: 28 +POS               [ 919]  0.0  [ 940] [   0] -08b -21b -23w -24b -25w -27b -17w -26b -14w 
:
:     Average Rating    1602.9 
:

[brtzsnr]

Thanks HGM, fun as always. Zurichess missed a draw against TogaII.

[pgn]
[Event "ICS Rated blitz match"]
[Site "winboard.nl"]
[Date "2016.04.16"]
[Round "-"]
[White "rpiTogaII"]
[Black "Zurichess"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "1622"]
[BlackElo "1639"]
[TimeControl "300+1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. e3 c5 5. Bd3 Bd6 6. O-O cxd4 7. exd4 a6 8.
Ne5 O-O 9. Be3 Re8 10. Qf3 Nc6 11. Nxc6 bxc6 12. Bf4 Qc7 13. Bxd6 Qxd6 14.
a3 c5 15. dxc5 Qxc5 16. Qe3 Qd6 17. Qd4 Rb8 18. f4 Bd7 19. Ne2 a5 20. b3 e5
21. fxe5 Rxe5 22. Qf4 Rbe8 23. h4 Qb6+ 24. Qd4 Qd8 25. Qf2 Qc7 26. Nd4 R5e7
27. Nf5 Bxf5 28. Qxf5 Re3 29. Qf2 R8e5 30. b4 Re7 31. Rab1 Qa7 32. b5 Qb6
33. Kh1 Nh5 34. Rbe1 d4 35. Rxe3 dxe3 36. Qf3 Nf6 37. Qa8+ Ne8 38. Qd5 Qc7
39. Qh5 h6 40. c4 Qd6 41. Qf5 g6 42. Qd5 e2 43. Re1 Qf4 44. Rxe2 Qf1+ 45.
Kh2 Rxe2 46. Bxe2 Qxe2 47. b6 Nf6 48. b7 Nxd5 49. b8=Q+ Kg7 50. cxd5 Qe4
51. Qd8 Qe5+ 52. Kh1 Qf6 53. Qxa5 Qxh4+ 54. Kg1 Qd4+ 55. Kf1 g5 56. a4 g4
57. Ke2 Qe4+ 58. Kf2 Qf4+ 59. Ke2 Qg3 60. Kf1 Qd3+ 61. Ke1 Qe3+ 62. Kf1 g3
63. Qe1 Qd3+ 64. Qe2 Qxd5 65. Qg4+ Kh7 66. Qf3 Qd7 67. Ke2 Qe6+ 68. Kd1 Kh8
69. Qc3+ f6 70. a5 h5 71. Qf3 h4 72. Qa8+ Kg7 73. Qb7+ Kg6 74. a6 h3 75.
gxh3 Qxh3 76. Qe4+ f5 77. Qe6+ Kh5 78. Qe2+ Qg4 79. Ke1 g2 80. Qxg4+ Kxg4
81. Kf2 Kh3 82. Kg1 Kh4 83. a7 Kg5 84. Kxg2 f4 85. a8=Q f3+ 86. Kxf3 Kf6
87. Qe8 Kg7 88. Qe7+ Kg8 89. Ke4 Kh8 90. Ke5 Kg8 91. Kf6 Kh8 92. Qg7#
*
[/pgn]

In the following position Zurichess moves 78... Qg4 which leads to a mate in 11. TogaII immediately saw this.

[D] 8/8/P7/5p1k/8/6pq/4Q3/3K4 b - - 3 78

[Joost Buijs]

NightmareA was running on the new Intel Compute Stick STK1A32SC which was sitting in my breast pocket during the tournament with only a thin cable hanging out for the power supply it obviously needs.
The STK1A32SC is a very small device of 12 x 38 x 113 mm and contains an Atom x5-Z8300 processor which according to CPU-Z was running at 1.6 GHz.
The device didn't get very warm, I didn't measure it with 'Core Temp' but it felt like it was getting 40 deg. C at maximum.

What amazes me that it did so well. The device is about 10 times as slow as my development PC and I expected it to get a TPR of ~200 Elo lower.
As usual you need a bit of luck and with only 9 games the error margins are very high.

Nowadays Nightmare uses BMI which does not seem to work on the Atom, because I threw out all the other stuff I decided to play this tournament with an older (2013) version of Nightmare that doesn't need BMI. I did this on both machines to have an equal comparison.

[Daniel Anulliero]

Very funny tournament !
After à bad start (MY fault , bad command line typed, sorry again) , at the end the best result so far from Isa , 4/9 , and a win vs KingSlayer
See you next month!