9th Amateur Championship Division 3

[Graham Banks]

Hi Graham,

Sorry to hijack your div. 3 thread when Romi is not even playing!

You're forgiven already.

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

After seeing that Crafty is in your division three, I am glad that Romi is not in division three..Romi doesnt stand a chance against some of these engines, unless its a head to head 100 game match with learning turned on.

I would be willing to predict that the new Romi pre alpha version that I am testing now, would finish in the upper half. Maybe, even as high as 5th!

Or maybe not. Just too early to tell. But, it is looking as though Romi might be on the way to a big improvement. Why? I,ve switched over to working on the eval.

Great news Michael
Your pgn file is ready and kicking for a new opening book,so whenever you're ready with a public release,buzz me please

P.S.I was willing to update the opening book for the last public release,but it's way too complicated to do....so,either you post here a step by step the making process,or I can send you the pgn file to make it yourself....I'll be glad if the opening book is both compaitable with the old and the new upcoming Romi....

Hi Graham,

Sorry to hijack your div. 3 thread when Romi is not even playing! Just blame Tony!!

Hi Dr. D.

I am glad that you are still interested in supporting RomiChess despite my slow progress and Romi's less than stellar performance with any given opening book. I hope that the following two results give a good feeling for some optimism.

My head is in a bit of a fog right now so I wont venture an interpretation of what these 1+1 results might mean for Romi, but if anyone else would like to speculate ...

(note: Romi played at this level against Hamsters on an Athlon 3400+. When I switched to a Core 2 machine the % dropped to about 58%. So this result is a big gain for the Core 2!)
RomiChess96 - Hamsters2 : 70.5/100 60-19-21 (1==0=1111=11101101111=1011011110111111=0=0=1111=1001100===110111111=1111001=11110011111===11101==0==) 71% +156

(note: RomiChess P3j version and below would only score about 6% against Glaurung 1.21 32 bit (I still need to test P3k against 1.21)
RomiChess96 - Glaurung-32bit : 35.0/100 27-57-16 (00100=11=010001000=1=00000100=00000100=000001111=0100=00=110=01011=00101001=0=0010100000010011=1=0=0) 35% -108

Edit: Just in case anyone wonders about the 96, it means that this version has a 32 bit hash key and a seperate 64 bit hash signiture for a total of 96 bits.

Thanks Michael,sounds like a big improvement,keep up the good work

[Graham Banks]

9TH CCRL AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP (Division 3)

AMD64x2 Dual Core
Fritz 11 GUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
HS-Variety.ctg book (limited to 12 moves)
40 moves in 38 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds

Updated versions will not be introduced during the tournament.

The top engine is likely to be promoted into Division 2 for the following season. The second top engine will play a ten game match against the eleventh placed engine in Division 2 to determine whether it remains in Division 2 or gets promoted.
The bottom engine is likely to be relegated into Division 4 for the following season. The second bottom engine will play a ten game match against the second placed engine in Division 4 to determine whether it remains in Division 2 or gets relegated.

Standings after Round 36

26.0 - Crafty 22.1
21.5 - GarboChess 2.20
20.5 - Anatoli 0.35k
20.0 - DanaSah 3.97b
18.0 - Hermann 2.3
17.0 - Typhoon 1.00-358
17.0 - Cerebro 3.03d
17.0 - Matacz 1.4
16.0 - BBChess 1.3a
15.0 - Arasan 10.4
14.5 - Homer 2.01
13.5 - Pupsi2 0.06


This tournament can be followed more closely with games available for download after every couple of rounds from here:
http://www.kirill-kryukov.com/chess/dis ... f=7&t=3911

[Graham Banks]

9TH CCRL AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP (Division 3)

AMD64x2 Dual Core
Fritz 11 GUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
HS-Variety.ctg book (limited to 12 moves)
40 moves in 38 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds

Updated versions will not be introduced during the tournament.

The top engine is likely to be promoted into Division 2 for the following season. The second top engine will play a ten game match against the eleventh placed engine in Division 2 to determine whether it remains in Division 2 or gets promoted.
The bottom engine is likely to be relegated into Division 4 for the following season. The second bottom engine will play a ten game match against the second placed engine in Division 4 to determine whether it remains in Division 2 or gets relegated.

Standings after Round 42

30.0 - Crafty 22.1
25.5 - GarboChess 2.20
23.5 - Anatoli 0.35k
22.5 - DanaSah 3.97b
21.0 - Hermann 2.3
21.0 - Matacz 1.4
19.5 - Typhoon 1.00-358
19.5 - Arasan 10.4
18.0 - Pupsi2 0.06
18.0 - BBChess 1.3a
18.0 - Cerebro 3.03d
15.5 - Homer 2.01


This tournament can be followed more closely with games available for download after every couple of rounds from here:
http://www.kirill-kryukov.com/chess/dis ... f=7&t=3911

[Graham Banks]

9TH CCRL AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP (Division 3)

AMD64x2 Dual Core
Fritz 11 GUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
HS-Variety.ctg book (limited to 12 moves)
40 moves in 38 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds

The top engine is likely to be promoted into Division 2 for the following season. The second top engine will play a ten game match against the eleventh placed engine in Division 2 to determine whether it remains in Division 2 or gets promoted.
The bottom engine is likely to be relegated into Division 4 for the following season. The second bottom engine will play a ten game match against the second placed engine in Division 4 to determine whether it remains in Division 2 or gets relegated.

Final Standings

32.0 - Crafty 22.1
27.0 - GarboChess 2.20
24.0 - Anatoli 0.35k
23.5 - DanaSah 3.97b
22.5 - Matacz 1.4
21.0 - Hermann 2.3
20.5 - Typhoon 1.00-358
20.5 - Arasan 10.4
20.0 - Cerebro 3.03d
19.0 - Pupsi2 0.06
18.5 - BBChess 1.3a
15.5 - Homer 2.01


The complete tournament pgn (zipped) can be downloaded here:
http://www.kirill-kryukov.com/chess/dis ... p?id=12681

[jesper_nielsen]

Wow!

A sprint to the finish line puts Pupsi above relegation!

I though she would be knocked down to the 4th division for sure!

Thanks for the tournament! Tournaments makes computer chess programming exciting!

Kind regards,
Jesper

[Graham Banks]

Wow!

A sprint to the finish line puts Pupsi above relegation!

I though she would be knocked down to the 4th division for sure!

Thanks for the tournament! Tournaments makes computer chess programming exciting!

Kind regards,
Jesper

Thanks for your encouragement Jesper and it's good to see Pupsi get a reprieve in this division.

Regards, Graham.