The monthly on-line engine blitz tourney for July will take place on:
Saturday July 22, 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)
On-line engine blitz tourney July
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney July
I'm going to miss at least the start time this month. Could you please add RookieMonster, if it's still online? Thanks.
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney July
I plan to run texel on a cluster of five c4.8xlarge Amazon EC2 instances, for a total of 5*18=90 cores.
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney July
petero2 wrote:I plan to run texel on a cluster of five c4.8xlarge Amazon EC2 instances, for a total of 5*18=90 cores.
Isa download :
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney July
Hg cold you add Isa in the tournament if it's online .May be I can't be "physicaly" here at time
Thanks !
Dany
Thanks !
Dany
Isa download :
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney July
I will add any engines I will find on-line at the start of the tourney. I must ask people to make minimal demands on this service, however, as it will delay the start of the tourney a lot when I have to add 20 engines to the tourney with proper checks to prevent I forget anyone. So if at all possible, please be there to join your own engine.
There is a second issue as well:
It seems that the obligation for the engines to kibitz their moves is taken less and less serious. This is partly my fault, for being lenient in enforcing it. But I think kibitzing scores and PVs is a very important aspect that makes these engine tournaments fun to watch.
It seems there are mitigating circumstances for engines that run on a Raspberry Pie, which have to use ICSdrone to connect, for lack of GUI support on sch machines. But there is really no excuse for people that run on regular computers to not kibitz. Even the Raspberry Pies have been participating so long and in such large numbers that it should not have been too much of an effort to adapt the software used by them so they can kibitz. How hard can that be? Just 2 or 3 lines of extra code in ICSdrone?
There is a second issue as well:
It seems that the obligation for the engines to kibitz their moves is taken less and less serious. This is partly my fault, for being lenient in enforcing it. But I think kibitzing scores and PVs is a very important aspect that makes these engine tournaments fun to watch.
It seems there are mitigating circumstances for engines that run on a Raspberry Pie, which have to use ICSdrone to connect, for lack of GUI support on sch machines. But there is really no excuse for people that run on regular computers to not kibitz. Even the Raspberry Pies have been participating so long and in such large numbers that it should not have been too much of an effort to adapt the software used by them so they can kibitz. How hard can that be? Just 2 or 3 lines of extra code in ICSdrone?
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney July
Due to being in Belgium at the moment, I might not be able to make it. However, if I can make it, the person I'm staying at has some very powerful hardware to use (a Kaby Lake i7 that is twice as fast as my Piledriver FX-6300).
Funnily enough, on that chip Dorpsgek (an incrementally updated attack table mailbox engine) is faster than WyldChess (a bitboard engine).
Funnily enough, on that chip Dorpsgek (an incrementally updated attack table mailbox engine) is faster than WyldChess (a bitboard engine).
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney July
Even in that case it might be possible to run xboard/winboard on a regular desktop computer and connect to the Raspberry Pie using ssh, see this post.hgm wrote:It seems that the obligation for the engines to kibitz their moves is taken less and less serious. This is partly my fault, for being lenient in enforcing it. But I think kibitzing scores and PVs is a very important aspect that makes these engine tournaments fun to watch.
It seems there are mitigating circumstances for engines that run on a Raspberry Pie, which have to use ICSdrone to connect, for lack of GUI support on sch machines.
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney July
Hi!
What could be the problem?
https://ibb.co/jCKMKk
i use this:
I have polyglot.exe in this directory.
Thanks, Tamas!
What could be the problem?
https://ibb.co/jCKMKk
i use this:
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cd C:\WinBoard-4.8.0\WinBoard\
winboard -zp -zippyGameEnd "say Thanks for the game." -ics -icshost winboard.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe D:\SAKK\tomitankChess\js\tomitankChess.js" -fd . -autoKibitz -fUCI -keepAlive 4 -firstXBook
Thanks, Tamas!