Mini-FRC Tournament Season 1

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Mini-TCEC Season 1 - FRC Edition

Game adjudication
1. Normal 3-fold repetition rule or the 50-move rule.
2. A game can also be drawn at move 35 or later if the eval from both playing engines are within +0.15 to -0.15 pawns for the last 10 moves, or 20 plies.
3. 6-men Syzygy tablebases.

Time Control
1. 30 mins + 5 Seconds

Score view
1. The score view will be white perspective for the entire tournament.

Engine Settings
1. Comtempts and other settings are adjustable
2. Hash = 2048mb
3. Thread = 4
4. EGTB = 6men Syzygy or 5men Syzygy, and 5 - Gaviota & Nalimov & EGTB Hash = 32/64mb
5. Book learning: Off for all engines
6. Position learning: Off for all engines.
7. Pondering: OFF
8. Engines with their own books should have them disabled

Crashes
1. 1st crash in a game will be reset
2. then If an engine crashes again in that game then it will counted as losses

Finals - 100 games
1.
2.

Battle for Third - 50 games
3.
4.

Semi's - 4 Games per pair
1. Pair 1 Winner
2. Pair 2 Winner
3. Pair 3 Winner
4. Pair 4 Winner
5. Pair 5 Winner
6. Pair 6 Winner


Quarter Finals - 16 Games per pair Knockout format
1. vs 12. - Pair 1
2. vs 11. - Pair 2
3. vs 10. - Pair 3
4. vs 9. - Pair 4
5. vs 8. - Pair 5
6. vs 7. - Pair 6

Top 2 Engines per group
1. Top 1 in Group 1
2. Top 1 in Group 2
3. Top 1 in Group 3
4. Top 1 in Group 4
5. Top 1 in Group 5
6. Top 1 in Group 6
7. Top 2 in Group 1
8. Top 2 in Group 2
9. Top 2 in Group 3
10. Top 2 in Group 4
11. Top 2 in Group 5
12. Top 2 in Group 6




Group 1 - 2 Games per pair in Round Robin
1. Stockfish - version beta16_150522 will play
2. Revenge - version 2.0 will play
3. Wasp - version 5.50 will play
4. Schooner - version 2.2 will play
5. Stash - version 33.0 will play
6. Monolith - version 2.01 will play
7. Scorpio - version 3.0.15.7 NNUE will play
8. Cheng - version 4.42-dev will play

Group 2 - 2 Games per pair in Round Robin
1. Dragon - version 3.0 will play
2. Ethereal - version 13.63 FRC-net will play
3. Weiss - version 2.1-dev will play
4. Nemorino - version 6.05 will play
5. Vajolet - version 2.9.0-TCEC-S19 will play
6. Black Marlin - version 5.0 will play
7. Marvin - version 120522 will play
8. Nawald - version 15 will play

Group 3 - 2 Games per pair in Round Robin
1. Berserk - version 9dev_180522
2. RubiChess - version 20220518
3. Hiarcs - version 15.1 will play
4. Chiron - version 5.01 will play
5. DanaSah - version 9.0 will play
6. Rodent - version IV 0.33 will play
7. Critter - version 1.6a will play
8. Lc0 GPU - version 0.29.0-rc0_791977 dx12 will play

Group 4 - 2 Games per pair in Round Robin
1. SlowChess - version 2.83 will play
2. Minic - version 3.18 will play
3. Defenchess - version 2.3dev2 will play
4. Demolito - version 10-04-2021 will play
5. Winter - version 0.9.8 will play
6. Cheese - version 3.0.1 will play
7. Senpai - version 2.0 will play
8. Colossus - version 2022a will play

Group 5 - 2 Games per pair in Round Robin
1. Velvet - version 3.3.0 will play
2. Deep Sjeng - version WC2008 will play
3. Naum - version 4.6 will play
4. RofChade - version 3.0 will play
5. Dragon MCTS - version 3.0 will play
6. Frozenight - version 4.0.0-dev will play
7. Exchess - version 7.97b beta will play
8. Spike - version 1.4 will play

Group 6 - 2 Games per pair in Round Robin (this group is experimental since it is FRC)
1. Houdini - version 6.03 will play
2. Fire - version 8.2 will play
3. Shredder - version 13 will play
4. Tornado - version 9 DH0.3 will play (experimental version)
6. Arminus - version 2018-12-23 will play
7. The Baron - version 3.44 will play
8. Coiled - version 1.1 NINU-0.4b will play (experimental verison)

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Group 1 - 2 Games per pair in Round Robin
1. Stockfish - version beta16_150522 will play
2. Revenge - version 2.0 will play
3. Wasp - version 5.50 will play
4. Schooner - version 2.2 will play - will be replaced by Dumb version 1.9 because of Schooner consistently stop and crash
5. Stash - version 33.0 will play
6. Monolith - version 2.01 will play
7. Scorpio - version 3.0.15.7 NNUE will play
8. Cheng - version 4.42-dev will play

[Modern Times]

4. Schooner - version 2.2 will play - will be replaced by Dumb version 1.9 because of Schooner consistently stop and crash

Odd, I don't have any issues with Schooner, I've played more than 10,000 FRC games with it

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4. Schooner - version 2.2 will play - will be replaced by Dumb version 1.9 because of Schooner consistently stop and crash

Odd, I don't have any issues with Schooner, I've played more than 10,000 FRC games with it

I did a test run and it keeps constantly crash and stop.

[Modern Times]

I did a test run and it keeps constantly crash and stop.

Which GUI ?

[bastiball]

I did a test run and it keeps constantly crash and stop.

Which GUI ?

Banksia

[Modern Times]

Banksia

Must just be one of those situations where a particular engine and a particular GUI don't play nicely together. It does run without problems under CuteChess.

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Banksia

Must just be one of those situations where a particular engine and a particular GUI don't play nicely together. It does run without problems under CuteChess.

I believe so

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[pgn][Event " Mini-FRC Tournament: Season 1"]
[Site "Group 1"]
[Date "2022.05.19"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Dumb 1.9"]
[Black "Wasp 5.50"]
[Result "0-1"]
[TimeControl "0/1800+5"]
[Time "15:20:46"]
[Board "1"]
[Termination "adjudication by egtb"]
[Variant "chess960"]
[FEN "bnnrkrqb/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/BNNRKRQB w FDfd - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]

1. Nc3 {M+0/27 48891 160650902} b6 {+0.12/24 93631 130184016} 2. d4 {+0.11/23 36136 113204338} f5 {-0.13/21 58437 64610772}
3. g3 {+0.09/23 39139 118200629} d5 {-0.07/23 43822 51704592} 4. Nd3 {M+0/25 46163 144343348} Nd6 {-0.15/22 44191 51790856}
5. b3 {+0.06/23 42858 135306185} O-O-O {-0.17/22 44569 52986256} 6. Bb2 {+0.03/23 39380 124586875} g5 {-0.16/23 44973 57815184}
7. f4 {+0.04/23 36934 120789119} Ne4 {-0.18/22 45385 59251024} 8. fxg5 {M+0/23 42522 140893972} Nc6 {-0.42/24 76971 97991328}
9. Nf4 {+0.08/24 41588 137827100} e5 {-0.25/23 84456 113237952} 10. Nfxd5 {+0.00/24 30957 104070751} exd4 {+0.00/24 59470 79747272}
11. Nxe4 {M+0/26 40016 138640479} Qxd5 {-0.25/24 42898 58249732} 12. Nf6 {M+0/27 39146 136293523} Qa5+ {-0.51/24 41710 56885832}
13. Rd2 {+0.22/26 32174 109679126} h6 {-0.09/23 44258 59899628} 14. h4 {M+0/26 37615 129930444} hxg5 {+0.04/23 39336 52121856}
15. hxg5 {+0.25/27 31256 104588442} Bxf6 {+0.10/23 38261 53451408} 16. gxf6 {M+0/28 36146 117396404} Rxf6 {+0.04/23 37220 55125444}
17. a3 {+0.27/26 27177 88191971} Rg6 {+0.28/23 121779 182958240} 18. Qf2 {+0.45/25 26158 83502731} Re6 {+0.51/23 85334 128969856}
19. b4 {M+0/27 34279 115693485} Qb5 {+0.27/23 30042 44207028} 20. Bxc6 {M+0/27 33551 109263018} Qxc6 {+0.00/24 29258 45624192}
21. Qxf5 {+0.67/25 25644 79518184} Kb8 {+0.00/25 28501 46716016} 22. Bxd4 {M+0/26 32322 101161657} Red6 {+0.00/23 27767 45060616}
23. Qf4 {+0.65/24 23991 74309397} Bb7 {+0.00/23 28507 43991064} 24. Qh4 {+0.59/25 23397 75020058} Qa4 {+0.00/24 26316 45360752}
25. Qe7 {+0.60/26 24874 84030643} Qxa3 {+0.00/25 25647 44910924} 26. Rf8 {+0.49/26 30207 96775660} Rxf8 {+0.00/26 25002 48820300}
27. Qxf8+ {M+0/26 29577 92005762} Bc8 {+0.00/27 24378 46818672} 28. c3 {M+0/26 28952 93179802} Qc1+ {+0.00/26 23766 42446808}
29. Rd1 {M+0/27 28353 85470116} Qc2 {+0.00/29 23179 46536424} 30. Qf4 {+0.39/26 27768 85910660} Rd7 {+0.00/26 22608 45080304}
31. Rd2 {+0.41/28 24436 75900935} Qb1+ {+0.00/27 22056 42749560} 32. Rd1 {+0.40/27 22562 70197596} Qc2 {+0.00/28 21523 41496364}
33. Qd2 {M+0/27 26276 81097115} Qg6 {-0.34/23 27594 47370604} 34. Qd3 {M+0/27 25744 79241538} Qg8 {-0.60/21 20297 33288736}
35. c4 {M+0/24 25224 77524142} Re7 {-0.60/20 19814 31749224} 36. Rd2 {+0.11/24 20854 66390478} Re8 {-0.76/20 19350 32230778}
37. b5 {+0.00/26 17123 55071078} Bg4 {-0.94/21 18902 31329524} 38. Ra2 {M+0/26 24024 79178084} Qe6 {-0.72/21 18465 31374028}
39. Bg1 {-0.05/24 23555 77338716} Qh6 {-2.34/23 18040 32988720} 40. Rc2 {-0.86/24 20975 67617083} Qh3 {-2.37/22 17632 33829328}
41. Qd4 {-1.06/25 22684 76978184} Qxg3+ {-2.86/22 17232 34414332} 42. Bf2 {-0.96/25 19485 67673508} Qb3 {-2.99/23 16846 35970392}
43. Rb2 {M+0/25 21886 73495153} Qa3 {-3.15/23 16480 34846780} 44. Kd1 {-1.59/25 21459 75943961} Qa1+ {-3.08/22 23420 47663608}
45. Kc2 {M+0/25 21053 74721431} Bxe2 {-3.00/22 15535 32605488} 46. Be3 {-1.65/24 15419 53129104} Qa3 {-3.56/22 15204 29834458}
47. Rb3 {-1.66/23 17493 59599346} Qa4 {-4.47/23 23195 49212268} 48. Kc3 {M+0/24 20074 69822336} Kc8 {-5.24/22 14777 33155680}
49. c5 {-1.82/23 15979 55749486} Bc4 {-6.30/21 13997 24299108} 50. Rb1 {-1.95/21 13682 50300557} Qa2 {-7.16/20 14704 26405624}
51. c6 {-3.07/20 14531 50475803} Be6 {-10.57/22 13410 35073780} 52. Rh1 {-4.91/23 15489 53661807} Rd8 {-10.92/22 13141 36976208}
53. Rh8 {-5.35/25 16028 56409160} Qb3+ {-11.59/22 12888 37673720} 54. Kd2 {M+0/27 18453 62911472} Bg8 {-11.65/21 12638 41229668}
55. Ke1 {-5.89/26 18143 60325929} Rxd4 {-13.01/22 12393 39280264} 56. Bxd4 {-6.01/25 16985 56580857} Qb4+ {-13.34/20 12160 41617448}
57. Ke2 {M+0/24 17537 42165422} Qxb5+ {-13.72/20 11933 23032858} 58. Kf2 {-6.10/22 15101 39610515} Qf5+ {-13.98/21 11750 38996668}
59. Ke3 {-6.17/23 17002 57314202} Qd5 {-15.02/22 15494 54716616} 60. Ba1 {M+0/22 16717 56290331} a5 {-15.71/20 11163 41077856}
61. Bb2 {M+0/21 16446 53069576} a4 {-19.35/19 10965 39207120} 62. Kf4 {-7.32/20 16170 53348646} a3 {-21.45/19 10778 37844472}
63. Ba1 {-9.43/22 11337 38535198} b5 {-24.73/17 10592 41533048} 64. Be5 {-8.15/20 14474 48840259} b4 {-32.93/17 12393 51413952}
65. Rxg8+ {M+0/21 15525 52961519} Qxg8 {-97.93/22 10174 38342788} 66. Bd4 {M-7/21 13687 44377900} Qc4 {-97.95/23 10025 40175284}
67. Ke3 {M+0/18 15075 66406300} Qxd4+ {-97.97/24 9849 40608388} 68. Kxd4 {M-10/20 4225 16202508} 0-1

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[pgn][Event " Mini-FRC Tournament: Season 1"]
[Site "Group 1"]
[Date "2022.05.19"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Stockfish beta16_150522"]
[Black "Monolith 2.01"]
[Result "1-0"]
[TimeControl "0/1800+5"]
[Time "15:22:03"]
[Board "2"]
[Termination "adjudication by egtb"]
[Variant "chess960"]
[FEN "nrqbnkbr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/NRQBNKBR w HBhb - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]

1. f4 {+0.28/36 132452 177310541 73/912/15} Nb6 {+0.22/24 74017 167267910} 2. c4 {+0.87/29 12401 16513561 274/723/3} f5 {+0.16/24 71234 128543399}
3. d3 {+0.82/29 18210 24838411 239/758/3} d6 {+0.23/22 50221 107248508} 4. b4 {+0.98/28 20555 28362472 325/673/2} Nf6 {+0.35/21 46378 89041797}
5. Nb3 {+1.13/32 19967 27284053 441/558/1} Bf7 {+0.33/23 68126 89737994} 6. Nf3 {+1.19/30 25988 36133876 466/533/1} O-O {+0.36/24 62608 114651001}
7. Bd4 {+1.24/30 21462 30615273 495/504/1} Nbd7 {+0.35/23 63297 153035414} 8. Ba1 {+1.17/32 122555 171404180 442/557/1} h6 {+0.26/21 73157 133206167}
9. O-O {+1.42/26 19091 26247974 626/374/0} c6 {+0.28/20 53419 103653476} 10. Kh1 {+1.19/32 186678 262846314 453/546/1} Re8 {+0.13/20 32235 73551263}
11. Nfd4 {+1.29/30 64734 89677623 525/475/0} e6 {+0.00/23 55213 85223252} 12. c5 {+1.12/29 36535 51417171 399/600/1} Qc7 {+0.28/23 52912 83346471}
13. e3 {+1.04/33 145505 204756591 331/668/1} Be7 {+0.11/23 40890 61442095} 14. a4 {+1.12/29 17801 25833373 387/613/0} Rbd8 {+0.09/20 38645 63678410}
15. Bf3 {+1.17/28 21960 32090193 421/579/0} Bf8 {+0.15/21 48506 118664642} 16. cxd6 {+1.09/26 21736 31731124 354/646/0} Bxd6 {+0.27/24 29412 71922834}
17. Nc5 {+1.28/31 82112 119716552 504/496/0} Bf8 {+0.34/20 31938 74859308} 18. Nxb7 {+1.47/29 19952 30119946 652/348/0} Qxb7 {+0.11/28 77260 196635968}
19. Nxc6 {+1.55/33 28509 43393102 709/291/0} Rc8 {+0.10/28 41737 100598527} 20. Ne7+ {+1.96/32 25841 41544667 904/96/0} Rxe7 {+0.31/27 40352 107349126}
21. Bxb7 {+2.45/31 34281 54490111 981/19/0} Rxc1 {+0.40/24 38938 80158197} 22. Rbxc1 {+1.94/33 58171 77054581 898/102/0} Nb6 {+0.34/26 37580 62190211}
23. Bc6 {+1.96/31 21730 26579545 905/95/0} Be8 {+0.21/27 36278 83100861} 24. a5 {+2.16/32 29401 33249616 949/51/0} Nbd5 {+0.95/26 48295 34857226}
25. b5 {+2.56/31 24119 30502141 987/13/0} Bxc6 {+1.12/26 33294 42358276} 26. Rxc6 {+2.81/31 22070 28663929 994/6/0} Rb7 {+1.31/26 36976 88124010}
27. b6 {+2.77/37 56286 78972068 994/6/0} axb6 {+1.11/27 30883 74381873} 28. Bxf6 {+2.89/36 15585 24300688 996/4/0} gxf6 {+1.10/28 29848 45317878}
29. Rb1 {+2.91/38 27333 42737692 996/4/0} b5 {+1.07/26 49191 56491650} 30. a6 {+2.90/38 33744 56839777 996/4/0} Rb8 {+0.95/27 27086 63415528}
31. Ra1 {+3.02/34 20920 30761474 997/3/0} Ra8 {+0.74/26 30128 52930066} 32. g3 {+3.26/35 27293 36805813 999/1/0} Nxe3 {+0.97/27 19217 39015258}
33. Ra5 {+3.43/33 20957 34291266 999/1/0} Nd5 {+1.05/26 18415 42611386} 34. Rxb5 {+3.43/41 24221 28665842 999/1/0} Nb4 {+1.12/27 28756 53387652}
35. Rxe6 {+3.37/37 37318 56217146 999/1/0} Kf7 {+1.00/29 18541 49352027} 36. Reb6 {+4.79/30 22445 29819935 1000/0/0} Be7 {+1.00/28 22688 48351829}
37. d4 {+5.46/26 32894 18610298 1000/0/0} Nxa6 {+0.88/27 20119 18119115} 38. Ra5 {+6.18/28 29461 30968595 1000/0/0} Nc7 {+1.48/34 36467 93335437}
39. Rxa8 {+6.69/30 30791 53963804 1000/0/0} Nxa8 {+1.35/34 17821 46287098} 40. Rc6 {+6.68/29 20649 34956671 1000/0/0} Bb4 {+1.90/31 32543 57889474}
41. Kg2 {+7.07/26 20873 35552665 1000/0/0} Ke7 {+2.02/30 53739 55536728} 42. Kh3 {+7.19/26 21081 26560496 1000/0/0} Bd6 {+2.06/32 19371 41556611}
43. Kh4 {+7.85/26 28867 34433189 1000/0/0} Nc7 {+2.15/28 26146 65559952} 44. Kh5 {+8.27/27 21255 40785233 1000/0/0} Kd7 {+2.19/27 31193 42605164}
45. Rc2 {+8.75/25 18637 32153995 1000/0/0} Bf8 {+2.21/25 34826 67859560} 46. Kg6 {+9.02/25 20424 41828427 1000/0/0} Nd5 {+2.44/25 22124 29666694}
47. Ra2 {+9.61/26 28195 54033791 1000/0/0} Ke7 {+2.15/24 16420 34181058} 48. Ra7+ {+10.34/27 48614 61209600 1000/0/0} Ke6 {+2.73/26 13205 16377105}
49. Ra6+ {+10.58/22 16720 20663641 1000/0/0} Ke7 {+2.62/27 31156 60302537} 50. h4 {+11.68/25 74628 92904438 1000/0/0} h5 {+2.85/25 17778 44504093}
51. Ra7+ {+13.18/17 20157 28663501 1000/0/0} Ke8 {+4.69/24 29188 73193821} 52. Kxh5 {+15.76/21 81126 107062434 1000/0/0} Ne7 {+4.50/25 25890 33089746}
53. d5 {+15.88/15 8813 12675931 1000/0/0} Nxd5 {+5.35/25 21043 40005845} 54. Kg6 {+15.95/15 4960 7215630 1000/0/0} Nc3 {+5.38/22 17322 39074948}
55. h5 {+17.23/13 7401 10925282 1000/0/0} Nd5 {+7.96/21 10748 20943984} 56. h6 {+152.55/17 5356 9555504 1000/0/0} Bc5 {+20.97/19 13129 25071368}
57. Rf7 {+152.59/42 2818 4909830 1000/0/0} Ne7+ {+159.87/29 11244 21506857} 58. Rxe7+ {+152.60/39 5031 10434703 1000/0/0} Kxe7 {+159.88/34 748 1756929}
59. h7 {+152.61/38 3822 9870050 1000/0/0} Ke6 {+159.90/36 871 1849704} 60. h8=Q {M+18/36 7129 16930583 1000/0/0} Bd4 {+159.91/40 924 2557025}
61. Qd8 {M+16/44 3547 6652018 1000/0/0} Ba1 {+159.94/43 1271 3314041} 62. g4 {M+11/44 6230 8391787 1000/0/0} fxg4 {+159.96/47 966 1412632}
63. f5+ {M+10/47 2996 5138496 1000/0/0} Ke5 {+159.97/60 504 1879516} 64. Qxf6+ {M+9/51 4260 8403566 1000/0/0} 1-0

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