Battling The Brute

[swami]

Don't know why there are so many engines with older versions, what puprose is that, add to the rating list to make progress comparison? reminds of Igor's Infinite Loop tests.

[Graham Banks]

Don't know why there are so many engines with older versions, what puprose is that, add to the rating list to make progress comparison? reminds of Igor's Infinite Loop tests.

Couple of reasons. I'd like to get all past 250 games plus I'm trying to balance out the average opponent rating of some of those older versions.
It's probably useful to tie in old and new to a degree also I'd imagine.

[swami]

Don't know why there are so many engines with older versions, what puprose is that, add to the rating list to make progress comparison? reminds of Igor's Infinite Loop tests.

Couple of reasons. I'd like to get all past 250 games plus I'm trying to balance out the average opponent rating of some of those older versions.
It's probably useful to tie in old and new to a degree also I'd imagine.

Sounds reasonable, I totally hate testing out older versions of particular engine unless the newer one has bugs or plays worser or..., but it's just me.

[Graham Banks]

Don't know why there are so many engines with older versions, what puprose is that, add to the rating list to make progress comparison? reminds of Igor's Infinite Loop tests.

Couple of reasons. I'd like to get all past 250 games plus I'm trying to balance out the average opponent rating of some of those older versions.
It's probably useful to tie in old and new to a degree also I'd imagine.

Sounds reasonable, I totally hate testing out older versions of particular engine unless the newer one has bugs or plays worser or..., but it's just me.

S do I, but I have to do what's best for the rating lists.

[swami]

Ofcourse, I get it. Keep up the good work.

[Graham Banks]

BATTLING THE BRUTE

Intel Q6600 Quad Core
Deep Shredder 11 GUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
Xmas2640b.bkt book (limited to 12 moves)
40 moves in 32 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
2 cycles 30 rounds


Standings after Round 20

15.0 - Rotor 0.3
14.5 - DanaSah 2.44
14.0 - Delphil 1.9c
13.5 - Cerebro 3.03d
12.0 - Sage 3.53
11.0 - GreKo 5.9
10.0 - Alfil 6.10
9.5 - Popochin 3.2
9.0 - Joker 1.1.06
9.0 - Bison 8.2.4r
8.5 - Xpdnt 080904
7.5 - Uralochka 1.1b
7.0 - NanoSzachy 3.4
7.0 - EveAnn 1.62
6.5 - Brutus 6.0
6.0 - TJchess 0.121


This tournament can be followed more closely with games available for download after each round from here:
http://www.kirill-kryukov.com/chess/dis ... f=7&t=3919

[Graham Banks]

BATTLING THE BRUTE

Intel Q6600 Quad Core
Deep Shredder 11 GUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
Xmas2640b.bkt book (limited to 12 moves)
40 moves in 32 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
2 cycles 30 rounds


Standings after Round 25

19.0 - DanaSah 2.44
18.5 - Rotor 0.3
17.0 - Cerebro 3.03d
16.5 - Delphil 1.9c
14.5 - Sage 3.53
13.0 - Alfil 6.10
12.5 - GreKo 5.9
12.0 - Joker 1.1.06
12.0 - Popochin 3.2
11.5 - Bison 8.2.4r
10.0 - NanoSzachy 3.4
10.0 - Brutus 6.0
9.5 - Xpdnt 080904
9.0 - EveAnn 1.62
8.0 - Uralochka 1.1b
7.0 - TJchess 0.121


This tournament can be followed more closely with games available for download after each round from here:
http://www.kirill-kryukov.com/chess/dis ... f=7&t=3919

[Graham Banks]

BATTLING THE BRUTE

Intel Q6600 Quad Core
Deep Shredder 11 GUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
Xmas2640b.bkt book (limited to 12 moves)
40 moves in 32 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
2 cycles 30 rounds


Final Standings

22.0 - Cerebro 3.03d
22.0 - DanaSah 2.44
21.0 - Rotor 0.3
19.0 - Delphil 1.9c
17.0 - Sage 3.53
15.0 - Alfil 6.10
15.0 - GreKo 5.9
14.5 - Popochin 3.2
14.5 - NanoSzachy 3.4
14.0 - Bison 8.2.4r
13.0 - Joker 1.1.06
13.0 - Brutus 6.0
11.5 - Uralochka 1.1b
11.0 - Xpdnt 080904
10.5 - EveAnn 1.62
7.0 - TJchess 0.121


The complete tournament pgn (zipped) can be downloaded here:
http://www.kirill-kryukov.com/chess/dis ... p?id=12437

[swami]

Ah.. the engine Cerebro won the tournament finally...just as I had predicted.

[Graham Banks]

Ah.. the engine Cerebro won the tournament finally...just as I had predicted.

Yes and it stands a good chance of taking out "The Matacz Memoirs" tournament also, judging from the standings a third of the way through.