On-line engine blitz tourney June

[Joost Buijs]

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

Saturday June 19, 2:00 PM EST (Boston time), 20:00 CET (Amsterdam time)

To connect:

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

(for UCI engines, add -fUCI)

People without account can submit a request for an account to admin@nightmare-chess.nl

Our tournament manager will be: Eendje (Lisebeth at ICC)

The format will be 9 rounds Swiss 5/1

[amanjpro]

Zahak will be there

Thank you for organizing this

[Daniel Anulliero]

Zahak will be there

Thank you for organizing this

Isa too
Funny weekend event !

[Pi4Chess]

Interesting moment to test the performance of pi4 with new x2 layer net.

Nodes per second are clearly halved by 2 or more from 800k-1000k /s to 350k-500k/s.

Interesting to see if new evaluatioon net layer can compensate less nodes and less depth search.

Will be corchess engine again.

[flok]

I'm curious about the results.

[Joost Buijs]

I'm curious too.

Stockfish is capable of playing on par with other engines that have a speed advance of 100 to 1. It's amazing to see what many years of trial and error by a large group of people can do.

[Joost Buijs]

rofChade and Nemorino ended both on top. Nightmare and rpiRofchade came in second.
This time rpiforchess was a bit unlucky because his engine got stuck one round before the last.
rpiforchess, Goldbar, Marvin, Minic and atomGoldbar ended on a shared third place.

Unfortunately Zahak came a bit late to the party, his connection dropped 50 mins. before tournament start. Hopefully he will be there next time.

This time there were a lot of NNUE engines, rofChade, Nemorino, Nightmare, rpiforchess, Goldbar, Marvin and Minic to name a few.

See you all next time!

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:Tourney Players: Round 9 of 9 
:
:     Name              Rating Score Perfrm Upset  Results 
:     ----------------- ------ ----- ------ ------ ------- 
:  1 +rofChade          [2972]  6.5  [2958] [   0] +09w +06w =03b =04w +02b =05w =08b =07w +13b 
:  2 +Nemorino          [2876]  6.5  [2992] [  46] +16w +08w +11b =05b -01w =03b =04w +10w +06b 
:  3 +NightmareX        [2900]  6.0  [2936] [  58] +15b =07w =01w +17b =05w =02w =11b =06b +04w 
:  4 +rpiRofChade       [2852]  6.0  [2876] [ 165] +19w +17w =12b =01b +16w =06w =02b +05w -03b 
:  5 +rpiforchess       [2945]  5.5  [2894] [  13] +14w +12w +07b =02w =03b =01b =06w -04b =08w 
:  6 +Goldbar           [2830]  5.5  [2859] [ 140] +23w -01b +10w +14b +08w =04b =05b =03w -02w 
:  7 +Marvin            [2735]  5.5  [2719] [ 243] +22b =03b -05w =12w +18b =14w +16w =01b =09b 
:  8 +Minic             [2707]  5.5  [2791] [ 468] +24w -02b +18w +15b -06b +10w =01w =12b =05b
:  9 +atomGoldbar       [2564]  5.5  [2687] [ 520] -01b +11w +23b =10w -12b =16b +21w +20b =07w 
: 10 +Schooner          [2867]  5.0  [2676] [   0] +18w +13w -06b =09b =11w -08b +17w -02b +20w 
: 11 +ArasanX           [2848]  5.0  [2688] [  35] +20w -09b -02w +19b =10b +13w =03w =14b =12w 
: 12 +WaspX             [2821]  5.0  [2714] [  28] +21w -05b =04w =07b +09w =17b =14w =08w =11b 
: 13 +WaDuuttie         [2615]  5.0  [2551] [   0] +25w -10b +19w -16b +20w -11b +18b +15w -01w 
: 14 +atomNightmare     [2559]  5.0  [2650] [ 363] -05b +21w +24b -06w +15w =07b =12b =11w =16w 
: 15 -Arminius          [2555]  5.0  [2388] [   0] -03w +22w +21b -08w -14b +23b +24w -13b +26b 
: 16 +mhouppin          [2409]  5.0  [2585] [ 560] -02b +24w +25b +13w -04b =09w -07b +17w =14b
: 17 +TheBaron          [2611]  4.5  [2466] [ 105] +26w -04b +20w -03w +19b =12w -10b -16b +22w 
: 18 +Nemeton           [2359]  4.0  [2366] [   0] -10b +25w -08b +22b -07w +24b -13w -19b +23w 
: 19 +RookieMonster     [2321]  4.0  [2314] [  38] -04b +26w -13b -11w -17w -20b +25b +18w +24b 
: 20 +rpiArminius       [2275]  4.0  [2388] [  46] -11b +23w -17b +21w -13b +19w +26b -09w -10b 
: 21 +CTdccc            [2208]  4.0  [2260] [  46] -12b -14b -15w -20b +22w +26w -09b +23w +25w 
: 22 +feligres          [2143]  4.0  [2221] [ 111] -07w -15b +26b -18w -21b +25w +23b +24w -17b 
: 23 +Barbarossa        [2254]  2.0  [2055] [   0] -06b -20b -09w +25w +26b -15w -22w -21b -18b 
: 24 +Isa               [2099]  2.0  [2069] [   0] -08b -16b -14w +26w +25b -18w -15b -22b -19w
: 25 +Skiull            [1959]  1.0  [1913] [   0] -13b -18b -16w -23b -24w -22b -19w +26w -21b 
: 26 -Skipper           [1610]  0.0  [1869] [   0] -17b -19b -22w -24b -23w -21b -20w -25b -15w 
:
:     Average Rating    2534.4

[Ras]

To connect:
winboard -zp -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz

I'd suggest to also include -keepAlive 1 in future tournament announcements. That may have kept Zahak in for this match.

Oh, and thanks as always!

[amanjpro]

Thank you again for organizing the tourney next time I'll try to append `keepAlive`

+1 Ras

[Joost Buijs]

To connect:
winboard -zp -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz

I'd suggest to also include -keepAlive 1 in future tournament announcements. That may have kept Zahak in for this match.

Oh, and thanks as always!

Indeed, as far as I know the server drops the connection after 1 hour of inactivity. I use -keepAlive 30 (sends a ping every 30 mins) this is more than enough to keep the connection up. On the other hand it would be nice when people attending the tournament are actually there when the tourney starts.

You have to thank 'Eendje' (Lisebeth, Bart Goldhoorns soul mate) for running the tournament, I just keep the hardware running. For many years she was tourney manager at ICC, she knows all the ins and outs of this old piece of software.