Rising Stars v Fading Warriors 2009 (The Decider)

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Which team will win this decider?

Poll ended at Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:02 am

Rising Stars
9
90%
Fading Warriors
1
10%
Tie
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 10

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Graham Banks
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Re: Fading Warriors with an uphill battle after Round 20.

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Kirk wrote: Is the Quark the one that was formally known as Lambchop?
Hi Cliff,

Quark is Thomas Mayer's engine.
Lambchop is Peter McKenzie's engine (from NZ).

Cheers,
Graham.
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Kirk
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Re: Fading Warriors with an uphill battle after Round 20.

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Graham Banks wrote:
Kirk wrote: Is the Quark the one that was formally known as Lambchop?
Hi Cliff,

Quark is Thomas Mayer's engine.
Lambchop is Peter McKenzie's engine (from NZ).

Cheers,
Graham.
Thanks Graham
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Re: Fading Warriors with an uphill battle after Round 20.

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Kirk wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:
Kirk wrote: Is the Quark the one that was formally known as Lambchop?
Hi Cliff,

Quark is Thomas Mayer's engine.
Lambchop is Peter McKenzie's engine (from NZ).

Cheers,
Graham.
Thanks Graham
You're welcome. :)
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Kirk
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Re: Fading Warriors with an uphill battle after Round 20.

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Graham Banks wrote:
Kirk wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:
Kirk wrote: Is the Quark the one that was formally known as Lambchop?
Hi Cliff,

Quark is Thomas Mayer's engine.
Lambchop is Peter McKenzie's engine (from NZ).

Cheers,
Graham.
Thanks Graham
You're welcome. :)
You are a gentleman! :)
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Re: Rising Stars looking good at the halfway stage

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Graham Banks wrote:
beachknight wrote:We lost this match only by a small margin.
Victory will be with us next time.

Best,
Only halfway through Harun. :wink:
Oops. I thought the tournament is completed.

Continue fighting hard, fading warriors.

Your trainer :)

Best,
hi, merhaba, hallo HT
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Graham Banks
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Rising Stars not far from cliching it!

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RISING STARS v FADING WARRIORS (THE DECIDER)

AMD64x2 Dual Core
Deep Shredder 11 GUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
Xmas2640b.bkt book
40 moves in 38 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
2 cycles 30 rounds
All engines 32-bit 1CPU


Standings after Round 25

18.5 - Petir 4.9999
17.0 - Brutus 8.04
15.5 - Scorpio 2.2 32-bit
15.0 - N2 0.1
14.0 - Little Goliath Evolution 3.12
13.5 - Xpdnt 091007
13.5 - Tornado 3.42a 32bit
12.5 - Ufim 8.02
12.0 - Tao 5.6
12.0 - Hermann 2.5
10.5 - Quark 2.35
10.0 - SOS 5.1
9.5 - Yace 0.99.87
9.5 - Arasan 11.6 32-bit
8.5 - NanoSzachy 3.8
8.5 - Pepito 1.59
104.5 - Rising Stars
95.5 - Fading Warriors
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Re: Rising Stars not far from cliching it!

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That tactical advice was appearantly no good.
My new advice for the rest of the tournament:

Play relaxed and ko 'em all, my fw!

Best,
hi, merhaba, hallo HT
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Re: Rising Stars not far from cliching it!

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beachknight wrote:That tactical advice was appearantly no good.
My new advice for the rest of the tournament:

Play relaxed and ko 'em all, my fw!

Best,
I was hoping it would be a closer match, but I failed in my matching up. :wink:
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A resounding victory for the Rising Stars!

Post by Graham Banks »

RISING STARS v FADING WARRIORS (THE DECIDER)

AMD64x2 Dual Core
Deep Shredder 11 GUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
Xmas2640b.bkt book
40 moves in 38 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
2 cycles 30 rounds
All engines 32-bit 1CPU


Final Standings

21.0 - Petir 4.9999
19.5 - Scorpio 2.2 32-bit
18.5 - Brutus 8.04
17.0 - N2 0.1
15.5 - Little Goliath Evolution 3.12
15.5 - Tornado 3.42a 32bit
15.0 - Ufim 8.02
15.0 - Tao 5.6
15.0 - Xpdnt 091007
15.0 - Hermann 2.5
13.5 - SOS 5.1
12.5 - NanoSzachy 3.8
12.5 - Quark 2.35
12.5 - Arasan 11.6 32-bit
11.5 - Yace 0.99.87
10.5 - Pepito 1.59
125.5 - Rising Stars
114.5 - Fading Warriors
The complete tournament pgn (zipped) can de downloaded here:
http://www.kirill-kryukov.com/chess/dis ... p?id=17257
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