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mar wrote:

Graham Banks wrote:Ferdinand (Deuterium author) - I hope you don't mind the tourney name, as it just sounded good.

Graham!
Don't you dare to make fun of Deuterium! May cheap crap like sugar or chessbrain haunt you for testing them!

ChessBrain is derivated from what engine?

Sergio Martinez wrote:

Carlos777 wrote:No Hiarcs?

I would like to add it... but i havent it

It is ok Sergio, there are many new (for me) british engines to fight for the top spots. BTW, What is the number of rounds of the swiss tournament and how many teams you will get from these tournaments for GB, Germany and France?

No Hiarcs?

Thanks for this interesting tournament.

Contempt is default for everyone?

Today I found out that sometime during the tournament, Arena reset the configuration of Counter to defaults (which means 16 threads instead of 1). It's not the 1st time that happens to me with arena, but usually I catch it at the beginning of the tournaments, but not this time. It happened recently...

Hi Sergio,

Why did you choose an odd number of engines to promote/demote? Why not 16 or 14? Especially in a Swiss tournament, I don't like BYEs. Other than that, great work as usual.

Best regards,
Carlos

I see. The bug was when you installed it as UCI, when done as WB there were no problems. Glad to know the author fix it. Thanks for the tournament Carlos. Only odd result for me is ChessBrainVB's, maybe it does not handle well playing with ponder on. Saludos. The author said (and was confirmed by my...

Thanks for the tournament Carlos. Only odd result for me is ChessBrainVB's, maybe it does not handle well playing with ponder on.

Saludos.

Thanks for organizing this tournament Ferdinand.

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

pohl4711 wrote:Testrun of Stockfish 171206 with Contempt=+15 finished.

Interesting test, thank you.