Ponziani Swiss 8CPU

[Graham Banks]

PONZIANI SWISS 8CPU

Intel Xeon X5430x2 Octal
ChessGUI
2048mb hash where possible
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
Ponziani2012.cgb book
40 moves in 29 minutes repeating
All engines 64-bit where available
All engines using 8 cores
9 Round Swiss


Participants

Houdini 3 64-bit 8CPU
Critter 1.6a 64-bit 8CPU
Stockfish 2.3.1 64-bit 8CPU
Rybka 4.1 64-bit 8CPU
Bouquet 1.6 64-bit 8CPU
Sting SF 2 64-bit 8CPU
Akkad 0.52b 64-bit 8CPU
Robbolito 0.21Q 64-bit 8CPU
IvanHoe 46e 64-bit 8CPU
Equinox 1.65 64-bit 8CPU
Naum 4.2 64-bit 8CPU
Hiarcs 14 8CPU
Chiron 1.5 64-bit 8CPU
Deep Junior 13.3 64-bit 8CPU
Deep Shredder 12 64-bit 8CPU
Protector 1.4.0 64-bit 8CPU
Spark 1.0 64-bit 4CPU
Onno 1.2.70 64-bit 8CPU
Hannibal 2012202 64-bit 8CPU
Tornado 4.88 PL20 64-bit 8CPU
MinkoChess 1.3 64-bit 8CPU
Crafty 23.5 64-bit 8CPU
BugChess2 1.9 64-bit 8CPU
Jonny 4.00 8CPU
Arasan 15.1 64-bit 8CPU
Gaviota 0.85.1 64-bit 8CPU
Arminius 2012-08-14 64-bit 8CPU
Nebula 1.0 64-bit 8CPU

[Graham Banks]

I will post the results and standings after each round, giving a link to the PGN.

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://home.pacific.net.au/~tommyinoz/client.zip
Host - GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port - 16083

There is also a live broadcast in Playchess.

[carldaman]

Thanks for trying the suggested setting for Tornado, Graham - it should be fun to see what happens

(Please remember to leave the Use Playlevel box unchecked, as I mentioned in the other thread/forum)

Also, interesting to see Robbolito competing, and do I see an MP version of Hannibal in there ?

Regards,
Carl

[Graham Banks]

Thanks for trying the suggested setting for Tornado, Graham - it should be fun to see what happens

(Please remember to leave the Use Playlevel box unchecked, as I mentioned in the other thread/forum)

Yes - remembered that.

Also, interesting to see Robbolito competing, and do I see an MP version of Hannibal in there ?

Robbolito - well it's a non-CCRL tournament, so why not?
And yes - Hannibal 20121202 64-bit 8CPU is a trial MP version.

Regards,
Carl

[Lavir]

Another superb tournament.

Thanks Graham.

8 cores is really good. I don't know the particular book, however.

[Graham Banks]

Another superb tournament.

Thanks Graham.

8 cores is really good. I don't know the particular book, however.

I have been in consultation with David Taylor, co-author of a recent opening book on the Ponziani.

With his help, I have hand tuned the previous Ponziani book that I had constructed for use under ChessGUI, removing some lines altogether, changing a few existing ones and adding in a few new lines.

As fans of the Ponziani, we're both hoping that the engines might find some new contributions to opening theory.

[S.Taylor]

PONZIANI SWISS 8CPU

Intel Xeon X5430x2 Octal
ChessGUI
2048mb hash where possible
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
Ponziani2012.cgb book
40 moves in 29 minutes repeating
All engines 64-bit where available
All engines using 8 cores
9 Round Swiss


Participants

Houdini 3 64-bit 8CPU
Critter 1.6a 64-bit 8CPU
Stockfish 2.3.1 64-bit 8CPU
Rybka 4.1 64-bit 8CPU
Bouquet 1.6 64-bit 8CPU
Sting SF 2 64-bit 8CPU
Akkad 0.52b 64-bit 8CPU
Robbolito 0.21Q 64-bit 8CPU
IvanHoe 46e 64-bit 8CPU
Equinox 1.65 64-bit 8CPU
Naum 4.2 64-bit 8CPU
Hiarcs 14 8CPU
Chiron 1.5 64-bit 8CPU
Deep Junior 13.3 64-bit 8CPU
Deep Shredder 12 64-bit 8CPU
Protector 1.4.0 64-bit 8CPU
Spark 1.0 64-bit 4CPU
Onno 1.2.70 64-bit 8CPU
Hannibal 2012202 64-bit 8CPU
Tornado 4.88 PL20 64-bit 8CPU
MinkoChess 1.3 64-bit 8CPU
Crafty 23.5 64-bit 8CPU
BugChess2 1.9 64-bit 8CPU
Jonny 4.00 8CPU
Arasan 15.1 64-bit 8CPU
Gaviota 0.85.1 64-bit 8CPU
Arminius 2012-08-14 64-bit 8CPU
Nebula 1.0 64-bit 8CPU

I never really understood. Maybe i have a mistake.

Isn't 40 moves in 29 minutes with 8 cores, similar to 40 moves in 58 minutes with 4 cores?

(and if so, why not give it a little longer for the moves, seeing that one has already invested the money for 8 cores, to atleast make the moves stronger too. Surely to get 8 cores for chess, isn't all about saving time to get in even more thousands of games, quicker).

[syzygy]

I suppose the idea is to test how well engines do on 8 cores. Some engines are better at using 8 threads than others. This depends on the quality of their multi-processing implementation.

[S.Taylor]

I suppose the idea is to test how well engines do on 8 cores. Some engines are better at using 8 threads than others. This depends on the quality of their multi-processing implementation.

So in this case, it is preferable to have relatively short time controls, for the differences to be felt better?

[Graham Banks]

PONZIANI SWISS 8CPU

Intel Xeon X5430x2 Octal
ChessGUI
2048mb hash where possible
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
Ponziani2012.cgb book
40 moves in 29 minutes repeating
All engines 64-bit where available
All engines using 8 cores
9 Round Swiss


Round 1

Hannibal 20121202 64-bit 8CPU v Houdini 3 64-bit 8CPU (0-1)
Protector 1.4.0 64-bit 8CPU v Deep Shredder 12 64-bit 8CPU (1-0)
Spark 1.0 64-bit 8CPU v Critter 1.6a 64-bit 8CPU (draw)
Onno 1.2.70 64-bit 8CPU v Rybka 4.1 64-bit 8CPU (0-1)
Bouquet 1.6 64-bit 8CPU v Tornado 4.88 PL20 64-bit 8CPU (1-0)
MinkoChess 1.3 64-bit 8CPU v Sting SF 2 64-bit 8CPU (draw)
Akkad 0.52b 64-bit 8CPU v Crafty 23.5 64-bit 8CPU (draw)
BugChess2 1.9 64-bit 8CPU v RobboLito 0.21Q 64-bit 8CPU (draw)
IvanHoe 46e 64-bit 8CPU v Jonny 4.00 8CPU (draw)
Arasan 15.1 64-bit 8CPU v Equinox 1.65 64-bit 8CPU (0-1)
Naum 4.2 64-bit 8CPU v Gaviota 0.85.1 64-bit 8CPU (1-0)
Arminius 2012-08-14 8CPU v Hiarcs 14 8CPU (draw)
Chiron 1.5 64-bit 8CPU v Nebula 1.0 64-bit 8CPU (1-0)
Stockfish 2.3.1 64-bit 8CPU v Deep Junior 13.3 64-bit 8CPU (1-0)


Standings after Round 1

1.0 - Houdini 3 64-bit 8CPU
1.0 - Stockfish 2.3.1 64-bit 8CPU
1.0 - Rybka 4.1 64-bit 8CPU
1.0 - Bouquet 1.6 64-bit 8CPU
1.0 - Equinox 1.65 64-bit 8CPU
1.0 - Naum 4.2 64-bit 8CPU
1.0 - Chiron 1.5 64-bit 8CPU
1.0 - Protector 1.4.0 64-bit 8CPU
0.5 - Critter 1.6a 64-bit 8CPU
0.5 - Akkad 0.52b 64-bit 8CPU
0.5 - Sting SF 2 64-bit 8CPU
0.5 - RobboLito 0.21Q 64-bit 8CPU
0.5 - IvanHoe 46e 64-bit 8CPU
0.5 - Hiarcs 14 8CPU
0.5 - Spark 1.0 64-bit 8CPU
0.5 - MinkoChess 1.3 64-bit 8CPU
0.5 - Crafty 23.5 64-bit 8CPU
0.5 - BugChess2 1.9 64-bit 8CPU
0.5 - Jonny 4.00 8CPU
0.5 - Arminius 2012-08-14 8CPU
0.0 - Arasan 15.1 64-bit 8CPU
0.0 - Deep Junior 13.3 64-bit 8CPU
0.0 - Deep Shredder 12 64-bit 8CPU
0.0 - Onno 1.2.70 64-bit 8CPU
0.0 - Hannibal 20121202 64-bit 8CPU
0.0 - Tornado 4.88 PL20 64-bit 8CPU
0.0 - Gaviota 0.85.1 64-bit 8CPU
0.0 - Nebula 1.0 64-bit 8CPU


PGN for Round 1 - http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=28084

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://home.pacific.net.au/~tommyinoz/client.zip
Host - GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port - 16083

There is also a live broadcast in Playchess.