13th ACCA World Computer Rapid Chess Championships

[CRoberson]

In order to schedule this for the largest potential participation, I'd like all potential participants to inform me of the weekends
that you can NOT participate on. From this, I'll create a list of dates left and then we'll vote on the date.

We are discussing weekends between Oct 5 and Dec 21 (inclusive):
Oct 5,6; Oct 12,13; Oct 19,20;
Nov 2,3; Nov 9,10; Nov 16,17; Nov 23,24; Nov 30, Dec 1
Dec 7,8; Dec 14,15; Dec 21,22

To start, the weekend of Oct 26/27 is not possible for me.

Respond to this thread for your input.

Best regards,
Charles

[supersharp77]

In order to schedule this for the largest potential participation, I'd like all potential participants to inform me of the weekends
that you can NOT participate on. From this, I'll create a list of dates left and then we'll vote on the date.

We are discussing weekends between Oct 5 and Dec 21 (inclusive):
Oct 5,6; Oct 12,13; Oct 19,20;
Nov 2,3; Nov 9,10; Nov 16,17; Nov 23,24; Nov 30, Dec 1
Dec 7,8; Dec 14,15; Dec 21,22

To start, the weekend of Oct 26/27 is not possible for me.

Respond to this thread for your input.

Best regards,
Charles

http://aigames.net/ACCA/ACCAWCRCC/2018A ... WCRCC.html

2018 ACCA
Participants
Entrants: 12 Countries: 6
While the tournament stimulates world communication in the field, the entrants are listed geographically to encourage meetings.
Program/ICC Handle Region/Nation Author/Operator Team Book Endgame Hardware OS CCRL Rating ICC Rating
Marvin/MarvinX Sweden Martin Danielsson Martin Danielsson Syzygy 6 piece AMD Ryzen 7 2700x 3.7GHz, 16 GB RAM, 8 cores Ubuntu Linux 64-bit 2792
Nightmare v7.9/NightmareX The Netherlands Joost Buijs Polyglot: Joost Buijs Nalimov 3-6 men on SSD Core i7-6950X, 32GB RAM, 10 cores, 4GHz Windows 10 Educational X64 2712
Goldbar Zeist, The Netherlands Bart Goldhoorn Bart Goldhoorn Bart Goldhoorn Nalimov 3-5 TB on SSD 8x3Ghz Pentium Windows 2507
The Baron/thebaron The Netherlands Richard Pijl Richard Pijl Syzygy 6 piece Intel i5 3470 4 cores TBD 2874 2606
Rofchade The Netherlands Ronald Friederich Polyglot: Ranomi Syzygy 6 piece Threadripper 1950X 4GHz 32GB 16 threads Windows 10 2762
Berta/BertaX Germany Felix Schmenger Polyglot/FS Xeon E5-2670, 16 threads Windows 7 64 bit 2305
Chiron/ChironX Italy Ubaldo Andrea Farina Ubaldo Andrea Farina TBD Syzygy 6 men 2xOpteron 6274 (@2.2 GHz), 32GB RAM, 32 threads Windows 3118 2784
DesuX Brazil Albert Silver Leela Chess Team, Albert Silver Erdogan Gunes 12-core + 2x GTX1080ti Windows
Komodo FL,VA,MD USA Mark Lefler, Don Dailey & GM Larry Kaufman Mark Lefler, GM Larry Kaufman & Erdogan Gunes polyglot: Erdo Gunes Syzygy 6 piece i9-7960x 4GHz Linux or Windows 3392
Telepath NC USA Charles Roberson Charles Roberson & Evan Roberson Charles Roberson & Polyglot INR's Distributed Computing: Intel i7 5820k 4.5 GHz 16 GB + more TBD Ubuntu Linux 64 bit 2415 2363
WaspX CO USA John Stanback John Stanback Engine own book 5-piece Syzygy Ryzen 7 1700 running at 3.7 Ghz, 16G Ram, using 12 threads Windows 10 2930
Arasan/ArasanX CA USA Jon Dart custom: Jon Dart 5-man Syzygy TB i7-6900k @ 3.2GHz 16G RAM, 8 threads Windows 10 3053 2459



Komodo is the 2018 World Computer Rapid Chess Champion
All matches in pgn format downloaded here

Automato
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# 2262 The 2018 Twelfth Annual World Computer Rapid Chess Championships Round Robin Standard 25 4 unrated manager
****** 12 players/11 round (of 11)
Managed by . (Sat Oct 20 18 8:42 - Sun Oct 21 18 12:18)
System: main TD: Automato
max_bye_points:1000
max_best:3000 last_sort:score scheduled: no
Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Score #g
1 rofchade (2762) xx 1 1 = = 1 1 = = = 1 1 8.5 11
2 ChironX (2784) 0 xx = 1 = = 1 1 1 1 1 1 8.5 11
3 Komodo (3392) 0 = xx 1 1 = 1 = 1 1 1 1 8.5 11
4 BertaX (2321) = 0 0 xx 1 = 1 1 1 1 1 1 8.0 11
5 ArasanX (2437) = = 0 0 xx = = = 1 1 1 1 6.5 11
6 Erdo (2861) 0 = = = = xx 0 1 1 = 1 1 6.5 11
7 WaspX (2930) 0 0 0 0 = 1 xx 1 = 1 1 1 6.0 11
8 NightmareX (2712) = 0 = 0 = 0 0 xx 1 1 = 1 5.0 11
9 MarvinX (2792) = 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 xx = 1 = 3.0 11
10 Goldbar (2499) = 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 = xx 0 1 2.5 11
11 TheBaron (2606) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 1 xx 1 2.5 11
12 Telepath (2285) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 xx 0.5 11

Thus, we have a 3 way tie for first. The first tie breaker is a double round robin G/10+1. The second tie breaker is a round robin G/3+1.


Automato
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# 2264 The 2018 Twelfth Annual World Computer Rapid Chess Championships Final Manual Blitz 10 1 unrated manager
****** 3 players/9 round (of 9)
Managed by . (Sun Oct 21 18 13:50 - Sun Oct 21 18 15:58)
System: main TD: Automato
max_bye_points:1000
max_best:3000 last_sort:score scheduled: no
Name R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 Score #g
1 Komodo (3392) =w2 bye =b3 =b2 bye +w3 +w2 bye =b3 4.0 9
2 ChironX (2805) =b1 =b3 bye =w1 =w3 bye -b1 +b3 bye 3.0 9
3 rofchade (2762) bye =w2 =w1 bye =b2 -b1 bye -w2 =w1 2.0 9

[Joost Buijs]

For me every date will be fine.

[jdart]

I am available all dates.

--Jon

[pijl]

The weekend of oct 12/13 is the GSEI tournament in Turin. Although I'm not participating there this year it would be nice if the events do not happen on the same day.
As far as I can see now nov30/dec1 is really bad for me.
I'd prefer if nov 2/3, nov 23/24, dec 14/15 could be avoided. I will not be able to be there at the start on saturday afternoon as I'm playing in the Dutch chess league (so I'll prepare the comp, put it online and hope windows doesn't spontaneously reboot), but will be attending in the later rounds when I come home.

[CRoberson]

So far:
John Stanback says he can NOT on Oct 12-13, Oct 19-20, and Oct 26-27.
Oct 12/13 is bad due to conflict with GSEI.
Richard Pijl says he can NOT on Nov 30/Dec 1.
Richard prefers we not have it on Nov 2/3, Nov 23/24 and Dec 14/15 but can if necessary.
Some others have said all dates are fine (here and email).
Two have requested that the Sunday rounds end as early as possible.

Possible Dates left (*** means at least one prefers not but can if necessary):
Nov 2,3; ***
Nov 9,10;
Nov 16,17;
Nov 23,24; ****
Dec 7,8;
Dec 14,15; ***
Dec 21,22

Charles

[CRoberson]

Ok, there haven't been any new constraints that don't agree with the current ones.

So, the dates to vote on are:
Nov 9,10
Nov 16,17
Dec 7,8
Dec 21,22

I think that Dec 21,22 is likely a busy weekend for most but if that is what everybody wants then...

May the voting commence.

Charles

[Joost Buijs]

I prefer one of the two weekends in November.

[dannyb]

Will the tournament be played on the ICC? Will it be possible to watch it? I remember few years ago it was possible to register a free seven-days account on ICC but on the website it now says you need full membership to watch.

[CRoberson]

Will the tournament be played on the ICC? Will it be possible to watch it? I remember few years ago it was possible to register a free seven-days account on ICC but on the website it now says you need full membership to watch.

We usually have it on ICC. We have tried an alternate venue (HGM's server) but there were some performance issues and despite the extra effort to make it good for spectators very few showed up.

Charles