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.
On-line engine blitz tourney August
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney August
How does this work? Any rating restrictions? Is there a way to watch?
Thanks,
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Thanks,
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney August
I think only a good internet connection, a winboard version, an account and a reasonable working chess engine.
Re: On-line engine blitz tourney August
I think you showed that even that is not a hard requirementHenk wrote:I think only (...) reasonable working chess engine.
(just teasing you a bit)
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney August
Few days a go I encountered that Skipper was playing illegal moves again in lost positions. So some old bugs revive.
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney August
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).zenpawn wrote:How does this work? Any rating restrictions? Is there a way to watch?
Thanks,
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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.
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney August
Good!hgm wrote: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.
My funniest event of the month !
Will be here
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney August
What's the time control?
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney August
5 min +1 sec/move