On-line engine blitz tourney June

[hgm]

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

Saturday June 17, 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)

[MahmoudUthman]

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

Saturday June 17, 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)

what is the format of the tournament ? I want to participate but my engine isn't fully UCI compliant right yet , maybe I would be able to implement & test the necessary parts ?

[Sven]

what is the format of the tournament ? I want to participate but my engine isn't fully UCI compliant right yet , maybe I would be able to implement & test the necessary parts ?

Time control is 5 minutes per game plus one second increment per move. Things like opening book, endgame tablebase, multiple cores, or pondering are up to you. What else do you need to know about the format?

[jdart]

I'd recommend you test on a chess server before entering the tourney.

You could try FICS (freechess.org) which has free accounts. Or get HGM to create you one on his server and try to match some of the resident engines.

--Jon

[MahmoudUthman]

what is the format of the tournament ? I want to participate but my engine isn't fully UCI compliant right yet , maybe I would be able to implement & test the necessary parts ?

Time control is 5 minutes per game plus one second increment per move. Things like opening book, endgame tablebase, multiple cores, or pondering are up to you. What else do you need to know about the format?

thank you that all I needed to know ,It seems that I'll come last I haven't implemented any of those .

[MahmoudUthman]

I'd recommend you test on a chess server before entering the tourney.

You could try FICS (freechess.org) which has free accounts. Or get HGM to create you one on his server and try to match some of the resident engines.

--Jon

Thank you, I'll already emailed HGM and he created an account for me , I'll start testing .

[Sven]

what is the format of the tournament ? I want to participate but my engine isn't fully UCI compliant right yet , maybe I would be able to implement & test the necessary parts ?

Time control is 5 minutes per game plus one second increment per move. Things like opening book, endgame tablebase, multiple cores, or pondering are up to you. What else do you need to know about the format?

thank you that all I needed to know ,It seems that I'll come last I haven't implemented any of those .

By "up to you" I meant these are optional, of course. Using an opening book helps but is not required. Same for the other features. All your engine needs is to correctly play a game based on standard (UCI or WB) communication protocol elements, including support of incremental time control, and all you need apart from that is a GUI (probably WinBoard/xboard) that is able to let your engine play on a chess server.

[MikeB]

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

Saturday June 17, 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)

Will be there with the latest McBrain not yet released - this version, 2.5, will be released immediately after the completion of the tourney.

[MikeB]

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

Saturday June 17, 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)

Will be there with the latest McBrain not yet released - this version, 2.5, will be released immediately after the completion of the tourney.

It would be interesting if somebody with big hardware could run Komodo 1101.

[nionita]

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

Saturday June 17, 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)

It is possible that I will be too late at home to join myself. If I manage to stay logged in without beeing timed out, can you please join Barbarossa when the tourney starts?