Horrors Of The Furnace 4CPU

[Graham Banks]

If I knew you were going to run this tournament I would have created three programs just for this event, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.

[Dann Corbit]

Graham definitely gets the awards for the most creative contest names.

[Graham Banks]

HORRORS OF THE FURNACE 4CPU

Intel Xeon X5430x2 Octal
ChessGUI
1024mb hash each where possible
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
GBSelect2018.cgb book
40 moves in 30 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
6 cycles 54 rounds


Standings after Round 48

29.5 - Fire 7.1 64-bit 4CPU
28.0 - Ethereal 11.25 64-bit 4CPU
26.0 - Xiphos 0.5 64-bit 4CPU
26.0 - Komodo 12.3 MCTS 64-bit 4CPU
25.5 - Booot 6.3.1 64-bit 4CPU
23.5 - Deep Shredder 13 64-bit 4CPU
22.5 - Laser 1.7 64-bit 4CPU
22.5 - Fizbo 2 64-bit 4CPU
20.0 - Andscacs 0.95 64-bit 4CPU
16.5 - Schooner 2.0.34 64-bit 4CPU


Games will be available for download after every six rounds from here:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... =7&t=10888

If you install TLCV (Tom's Live Chess Viewer) on your computer, you can watch the games live move by move. You'll also be able to chat to others following the tournament in the chatroom there.
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=42959
Host - GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port - 16083

Linux users can access the live broadcast through using Livius:
https://github.com/kmar/livius

There is a Livius windows version too.
It has live pv boards as a nice addition.
http://www.crabaware.com/livius/

[Graham Banks]

HORRORS OF THE FURNACE 4CPU

Intel Xeon X5430x2 Octal
ChessGUI
1024mb hash each where possible
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
GBSelect2018.cgb book
40 moves in 30 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
6 cycles 54 rounds


Final Standings

33.0 - Fire 7.1 64-bit 4CPU
31.0 - Ethereal 11.25 64-bit 4CPU
29.5 - Booot 6.3.1 64-bit 4CPU
29.0 - Xiphos 0.5 64-bit 4CPU
29.0 - Komodo 12.3 MCTS 64-bit 4CPU
26.0 - Deep Shredder 13 64-bit 4CPU
25.5 - Fizbo 2 64-bit 4CPU
25.0 - Laser 1.7 64-bit 4CPU
23.5 - Andscacs 0.95 64-bit 4CPU
18.5 - Schooner 2.0.34 64-bit 4CPU


The complete tournament PGN (zipped) can be downloaded here:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=44191

[Graham Banks]

Thanks to those who took an interest in this tournament.

Congratulations to Norm (Fire author) for the tournament win.
Incredible that Fire remained undefeated.