2nd Crazyhouse Computer Championships 2017

[Ferdy]

https://sites.google.com/site/zhassocia ... mpionships

Rules updates.

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Changes:
* Candidates tour will use a 7-round swiss, best of 12 games per pairing
* Candidates tour will use TC 15'+5" (was TC 5'+3")
* Championship match will use TC 60'+30" (was TC 15'+5") for better live viewing experience.
* Championship match is reduced to best of 24 games (was 32).

Results and tables.

Candidates:
http://ccva.challonge.com/ccva_can_2017

Championships:
http://ccva.challonge.com/2nd_ccva_ch_2017

[Ferdy]

Suggestion for LBB, due to some delays considering the TC I use and on moves transmission from my pc to google drive cloud to LBB, and saw this in LBB.

LBB upon receiving the moves, say 12, it will play all the moves on the board fast, perhaps a delay of 5s/move or settable or based on the TC used in the game is better, so that it would still look like a live game in action.

It seemed this LBB has a 64-game limit.

Merry Christmas

Excellent! I will suggest this broadcast-beta (replay moves) change to Lichess. (Sorry, you are correct about the 64-game limit; feel free to use multiple broadcasts & we can feature each one.)

Chris Callahan (Lichess: NoJoke) & I (Lichess: Toadofsky) will ensure Lichess prominently features the broadcast at its scheduled start date (or if you prefer, once it has started). Please do invite us as "members" (upper-left corner of the broadcast) and we'll be glad to help moderate the live chat and ensure Lichess continually polls for updates (it does so if any study member is viewing the broadcast).

Merry Christmas!

In the following image selecting new does not work for me.



I use:

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-livepgnout live.pgn

from cutechess-cli v0.8.5 from Norman.

I got this.




Have you tried it? Does it work for you?

Typical pgn output.

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[Event "zh test"]
[Site "Home"]
[Date "2017.12.27"]
[Round "1"]
[White "a"]
[Black "b"]
[Result "*"]
[Termination "unterminated"]
[TimeControl "5+5"]
[Variant "crazyhouse"]

1. e4 {book} b6 {book} 2. d4 {book} Bb7 {book} 3. Bd3 {book} e6 {book}
4. Nf3 {(+1.29 d17 5.3s)} Nf6 {(-0.69 d11 1.8s)} 5. e5 {(+0.31 d15 5.3s)}
Bxf3 {(-0.83 d11 1.7s)} 6. Qxf3 {(+4.18 d13 1.6s)} Nd5 {(-0.95 d10 2.5s)}
7. B@g5 {(+4.08 d13 5.4s)} Be7 {(-0.49 d10 1.9s)} 8. Bxe7 {(+4.22 d14 4.9s)}
Qxe7 {(-2.42 d10 5.4s)} 9. B@b7 {(+6.20 d14 5.4s)} Nc6 {(-2.92 d10 6.9s)}
10. Bxa8 {(+6.16 d12 5.4s)} *

[Toadofsky]

Please check your messages on Lichess as I believe Chris is attempting to assist.

Re: Google Drive, I think to get the raw (plaintext) output you need to specify a URL which returns a plaintext file?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/232 ... d-file-url

(Sorry for my brevity, in a few minutes I'm driving to the office.)

[Ferdy]

Please check your messages on Lichess as I believe Chris is attempting to assist.

Re: Google Drive, I think to get the raw (plaintext) output you need to specify a URL which returns a plaintext file?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/232 ... d-file-url

(Sorry for my brevity, in a few minutes I'm driving to the office.)

Thanks, chats with Chris now.

Yes that is what I did, I revised the url. It works on traditional but will not work with (new) or one file per game.

[Carlos777]

Thanks for organizing this tournament Ferdinand.

My only doubt/concern is why only 256MB hash? Even for the rapid games is a bit low.

[Daniel Shawul]

Hi Ferd,

Here is Nebiyu146a cross compiled to windows. Let me know if you have problems with it.

https://sites.google.com/site/dshawul/nebiyu146a.tar.gz

regards,
Daniel

[Daniel Shawul]

Don't use montecarlo=1 for now. I see that the MCTS works well only in the chess branch, and I need to do the same for the ALIEN branch where crazyhouse is located.

Daniel

[Ferdy]

Thanks for organizing this tournament Ferdinand.

My only doubt/concern is why only 256MB hash? Even for the rapid games is a bit low.

I want my system to have enough memory reserves. The engines will be fine with 256 mb.

[Ferdy]

Hi Ferd,

Here is Nebiyu146a cross compiled to windows. Let me know if you have problems with it.

https://sites.google.com/site/dshawul/nebiyu146a.tar.gz

regards,
Daniel

Thanks I will use this.

[Ferdy]

Don't use montecarlo=1 for now. I see that the MCTS works well only in the chess branch, and I need to do the same for the ALIEN branch where crazyhouse is located.

Daniel

All right I will not enter the mcts version.