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Paloma wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2019 8:36 pm Yes what?

Is it cancelled?

No but I got annoyed by your "bad".

I'm just wondering that there's no information.

Richard Pijl tells me Rofchade won the Programmer's Tournament. Arasan was 2nd. I don't have more info right now.

--Jon

Sorry for the silence during the tournament. We had to improvise a little and the reports on the site as well as here in the forum were the victim of that. A quick summary (I hope someone, perhaps me, will be able to write a more extended version):

The tournament was played with 8 participants. All programs were operated by its author, except Arasan. Tessa, who operated for Arasan a couple of years ago was doing it this tournament again. Final standing:
1. Rofchade
2. Arasan
3. The Baron
4. The King
5. Arminius
6/7. Spartacus, Micah
8. Gadget

Until the final round Rofchade had won all its games, while Arasan dropped half a point against the Baron in a better, but still drawn ending. The Baron drew its game against the King earlier. In the final round Rofchade drew Arasan and by doing that it won the tournament.

Hardware used (for as far as I remember):
Rofchade: Threadripper, 16 cores
Arasan: Amazon cloud instance, 48 cores
The Baron: Intel Xeon, 28 cores
The King: 4 cores
Arminius: Threadripper, 16 cores
Micah: Threadripper, 16 cores
Spartacus: 1 core
Gadget: 1 core

We played this time in the nice city of Gouda, famous for its cheese, siroopwafels, candlesticks and clay pipes.
On Sunday we had three chess programmers visiting us: Ed Schroder, Chris Whittington and Marcel van Kervinck

We hope to announce the date for the next tournament (probably end of April or early in May) soon.
Richard.

It's was nice to see many of the familar faces again

Thanks for the report.