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- GUI : Arena 3.51
- Open Swiss tournament. Swiss system tournament. The number of rounds will depend on the engines involved.
- Time control: 40/15 (adapted to the CCRL benchmark).
- Ponder off
- GPU: RTX 2080
- Threads : 4 (but all engines can participate, even with 1 thread)
- Default hash=256Mb,
- Endgame tablebases: Syzygy -- Nalimov -- Scorpio Bitbases -- Gaviota ---64Mb hash
- Resign is set to -5 for 3 consecutive moves where able.
- Updates will not be allowed during each tournament
- Open to all Winboard and UCI engines (free, private and commercial).
- Results will be rated only for engines already in the CCRL lists.
- All engines will use the same opening book limited to an 8 move depth.
- Engine authors can either post their wish for their engine to participate or contact through email (sergiomg24@hotmail.com) or private message. I will choose engines by myself too.

Deadline: June 24 --- Start: June 25th

http://ccrl.chessdom.com/sergio/openswiss3.htm

At fishtest, the hash used for 60s+0.6 is 64MB. Here the engines will play with 4 threads and 40/15m which would mean at least 50x more nodes during a game. It doesn't scale linearly, but the hash setting is 256MB which is only 4x more.

512MB or 1024MB might give a better performance for most engines. It might be worth testing, unless there is another reason to limit hash ?

Hi Sergio,
would you consider to enter some Stockfish derivatives ?
As : Honey, Bluefish, Blackdiamond, Eman, CorChess, Crystal, Sting-SF ?

Yay! Looking forward to it!

Thanks, Sergio!

Alayan wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 3:35 am At fishtest, the hash used for 60s+0.6 is 64MB. Here the engines will play with 4 threads and 40/15m which would mean at least 50x more nodes during a game. It doesn't scale linearly, but the hash setting is 256MB which is only 4x more.

512MB or 1024MB might give a better performance for most engines. It might be worth testing, unless there is another reason to limit hash ?

Hi!

The only reason is... my mind I forgot to update some points of this old announce. The real size will be used is 512mb, but not all engines will use 4cpu. I use old engines too.

Vinvin wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 5:12 am Hi Sergio,
would you consider to enter some Stockfish derivatives ?
As : Honey, Bluefish, Blackdiamond, Eman, CorChess, Crystal, Sting-SF ?

Hi!

I'm considering use Honey

JVMerlino wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 5:21 pm Yay! Looking forward to it!

Thanks, Sergio!

Hi John!

Like previous versions Myrddin will play here

New entries:

Hi Sergio,

I saw you are working on a new website! The design looks nice and I am looking forward to when it is closer to finished.

Naturally, I would like to enter Winter in the tournament!

Regards,
Jonathan

Maybe you should put a list of engines on your site you are already planing with to avoid hundreds of "me too".