Extra on-line blitz tourney (for testing)

[hgm]

For those not following the ICS debugging thread:

To test if the latest fix indeed solved the problems, we are having an extra engine blitz tourney tonight (Jan 8), at 9:00 pm Amsterdam time (3:00 pm Boston time). The more participents, the more severe the test, so everyone is even more welcome than ever, no matter with what engine you play. To connect:

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

(with a possible extra -fUCI for UCI engines)

[flok]

Will you publish the tournament results? Altough it is just a test, I'm very interested to see how my program did.

[hgm]

We made it!

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:Tourney Players: Round 9 of 9 
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:     Name              Rating Score Perfrm Upset  Results 
:     ----------------- ------ ----- ------ ------ ------- 
:  1 +Texel             [2224]  8.5  [2190] [   0] +13w +06b +05w +02b +04w =03b +09w +11w +12b 
:  2 +Almere            [1987]  7.5  [2110] [ 209] +18w +12w +15b -01w +09b +04b +03w =05b +06w 
:  3 +NirvanaRB         [2133]  7.0  [2035] [  45] +07w +10w +06b +09w +12b =01w -02b =04w +15b 
:  4 +WaDuuttie         [2038]  6.5  [2014] [  47] +19w +15w +10b +05w -01b -02w +13b =03b +09w 
:  5 +EXchess           [2012]  6.5  [1906] [   0] +17w +11w -01b -04b +07w +10w +15b =02w +16b 
:  6 +Arminius          [1776]  6.0  [1850] [   0] +22b -01w -03w +16b +19w +12w +10b +08w -02b 
:  7 +rpiMinkoChess     [1417]  5.0  [1594] [  62] -03b +20w +13b -10w -05b +21w -11b +19w +17b 
:  8 +TJchessHGM        [   0]  5.0  [1467] [6333] -16b +21b -12w =13w +22b =11w +19w -06b +20b
:  9 +rpiStockfish      [1896]  4.5  [1763] [   0] +21w +16w +11b -03b -02w =15b -01b +13w -04b 
: 10 +rpiArminius       [1732]  4.5  [1672] [   0] +20w -03b -04w +07b +17w -05b -06w +14b =11w 
: 11 +Spartacus         [1599]  4.5  [1670] [ 142] +24w -05b -09w =14b +16w =08b +07w -01b =10b 
: 12 +Schooner          [1592]  4.5  [1734] [ 199] +14w -02b +08b +19w -03w -06b +20b =15w -01w 
: 13 +KingSlayer        [1479]  4.5  [1608] [ 384] -01b +22w -07w =08b +14w +16b -04w -09b +23w 
: 14 +SjaakHGM          [   0]  4.5  [1392] [5359] -12b +18b -16w =11w -13b +17b +22w -10w +24b 
: 15 +Myrddin           [1659]  4.0  [1596] [ 118] +23w -04b -02w +20b +21b =09w -05w =12b -03w 
: 16 +Joker             [1569]  4.0  [1534] [ 212] +08w -09b +14b -06w -11b -13w +24b +18w -05w
: 17 +microMax          [1330]  4.0  [1325] [   0] -05b +24w -19b +18w -10b -14w +23w +22b -07w 
: 18 +RookieMonster     [1266]  4.0  [1248] [   0] -02b -14w -20b -17b +23w +24w +21b -16b +22w 
: 19 +rpiFruit          [1409]  3.5  [1348] [   0] -04b +23w +17w -12b -06b =20w -08b -07b +21w 
: 20 +Embla             [1073]  3.5  [1292] [ 361] -10b -07b +18w -15w +24b =19b -12w +23b -08w 
: 21 +rpiBikjump        [1182]  3.0  [1215] [   0] -09b -08w +23b +22b -15w -07b -18w +24w -19b 
: 22 +NEG               [1131]  2.0  [1118] [   0] -06w -13b +24b -21w -08w +23b -14b -17w -18b 
: 23 +POS               [ 852]  1.0  [ 951] [   0] -15b -19b -21w +24w -18b -22w -17b -20w -13b 
: 24 +ParisHilton       [ 833]  0.0  [ 897] [   0] -11b -17b -22w -23b -20w -18b -16w -21b -14w
:
:     Average Rating    1554.0 
:

[Modern Times]

The tournament did expose a bug with Nirvana !! In a long drawn endgame with Almere, the game went over 200 moves. Suddenly around move 210 - 220 Nirvana just stopped moving and lost on time. Second place in the tournament was then lost The highlight of the tournament for me was being able to hold Texel to a draw.

[hgm]

It could be that the game was too long. In UCI the entire game is sent to the engine before every move, and at some point this might have been too long to fit in its input buffer. I have seen that happen to UCCI engines many times, when more than 50 reversible moves were played in a row.

[petero2]

The highlight of the tournament for me was being able to hold Texel to a draw.

I agree. Thanks for finding a weakness in texel's opening book :)

Since texel uses book learning (off-line), it will not make the same mistake again. Unfortunately for texel the book will never get perfect though, so there is always a risk texel picks a book line that is bad at the end, or is too complicated to play correctly in a blitz game.

[Modern Times]

The highlight of the tournament for me was being able to hold Texel to a draw.

I agree. Thanks for finding a weakness in texel's opening book

Hopefully I will find more in future

[jshriver]

I'm soo happy for WaDuutie! Glad to see it kicking this many years later keep it up buddy.