On-line engine blitz tourney August

[hgm]

The monthly on-line engine blitz tourney for August will take place on:

Saturday August 27, 3pm Boston time (21:00 Amsterdam time)

To connect:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost winboard.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz

(for UCI engines, add -fUCI)

Please do not panic if I am not there at 21:00 sharp. I will be out of town most of the day, but plan to be back in time. But with the trains here in the weekends here you never know, and I do not have a very large margin. But even ifI miss a connection and have to take a train later I should not be more than 15 min late.

[flok]

Please note that the server is currently down.

[zenpawn]

How does this work? Any rating restrictions? Is there a way to watch?

Thanks,
-Erin

[Henk]

I think only a good internet connection, a winboard version, an account and a reasonable working chess engine.

[flok]

I think only (...) reasonable working chess engine.

I think you showed that even that is not a hard requirement

(just teasing you a bit)

[Henk]

Few days a go I encountered that Skipper was playing illegal moves again in lost positions. So some old bugs revive.

[hgm]

How does this work? Any rating restrictions? Is there a way to watch?

Thanks,
-Erin

There are no restrictions other than that the same engine should not participate multiple times. And even that requirement is relaxed a bit lately, if a second copy wants to participate on very slow hardware (like Raspberry Pi).

For watching just login without engine:


winboard -ics -icshost winboard.nl -icshelper timeseal -autoKibitz

The ICS should be up again; I guess they rebooted the VPS it is running on for maintenance.

[Daniel Anulliero]

The monthly on-line engine blitz tourney for August will take place on:

Saturday August 27, 3pm Boston time (21:00 Amsterdam time)

To connect:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost winboard.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz

(for UCI engines, add -fUCI)

Please do not panic if I am not there at 21:00 sharp. I will be out of town most of the day, but plan to be back in time. But with the trains here in the weekends here you never know, and I do not have a very large margin. But even ifI miss a connection and have to take a train later I should not be more than 15 min late.

Good!
My funniest event of the month !
Will be here

[zenpawn]

What's the time control?

[hgm]

5 min +1 sec/move