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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.

Sylwy wrote:YES ! Just tome I ! Tome II....in January (they are a lot of traditional winter festivals here........and.......I am a privileged in this field) !

Thank you Ruxy! Waiting for the second part (I guess Visual Basic, Visual C, C#, Assembler, Pascal, Delphi, etc.)

Thanks for sharing a great engine!

Good luck on next season of TCEC.