29th Amateur Series Division 1

[Graham Banks]

29TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 1)

Intel i5 750
ChessGUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
Charlotte 1.0.cgb book
40 moves in 25 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 32-bit 1CPU

The bottom engine will face automatic relegation. Whether or not the second from bottom engine (and perhaps others) remain in this division could be determined by grading matches before the next series.

Standings after Round 36

29.0 - Critter 1.2 32-bit
27.5 - Stockfish 2.1.1 32-bit
26.0 - Komodo 2.03 32-bit
23.5 - Spike 1.4
17.5 - Spark 1.0 32-bit
17.5 - Thinker 5.4d Inert 32-bit
14.0 - Booot 5.1.0
13.5 - Protector 1.4.0 32-bit
13.0 - Umko 1.2 32-bit
12.5 - Jonny 4.00
12.0 - Gull 1.2 32-bit
10.0 - Scorpio 2.7 32-bit


This tournament can be followed more closely from the following link, where games will be available for download after every two rounds:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... f=7&t=5935

[Graham Banks]

29TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 1)

Intel i5 750
ChessGUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
Charlotte 1.0.cgb book
40 moves in 25 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 32-bit 1CPU

The bottom engine will face automatic relegation. Whether or not the second from bottom engine (and perhaps others) remain in this division could be determined by grading matches before the next series.

Standings after Round 42

34.0 - Critter 1.2 32-bit
32.5 - Stockfish 2.1.1 32-bit
31.0 - Komodo 2.03 32-bit
27.0 - Spike 1.4
20.5 - Thinker 5.4d Inert 32-bit
20.0 - Spark 1.0 32-bit
16.0 - Umko 1.2 32-bit
16.0 - Booot 5.1.0
15.0 - Jonny 4.00
14.5 - Protector 1.4.0 32-bit
14.5 - Gull 1.2 32-bit
11.0 - Scorpio 2.7 32-bit


This tournament can be followed more closely from the following link, where games will be available for download after every two rounds:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... f=7&t=5935

[Graham Banks]

29TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 1)

Intel i5 750
ChessGUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
Charlotte 1.0.cgb book
40 moves in 25 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 32-bit 1CPU

The bottom engine will face automatic relegation. Whether or not the second from bottom engine (and perhaps others) remain in this division could be determined by grading matches before the next series.

Final Standings

36.0 - Critter 1.2 32-bit
34.0 - Stockfish 2.1.1 32-bit
31.0 - Komodo 2.03 32-bit
28.5 - Spike 1.4
21.5 - Thinker 5.4d Inert 32-bit
20.0 - Spark 1.0 32-bit
17.0 - Umko 1.2 32-bit
16.5 - Booot 5.1.0
16.0 - Protector 1.4.0 32-bit
16.0 - Jonny 4.00
15.5 - Gull 1.2 32-bit
12.0 - Scorpio 2.7 32-bit


The complete tournament pgn (zipped) can be downloaded here:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=22981

[Engin]

Now Critter 1.2 is really better then stockfish, it is a great jump of improvements again, the previous version was'nt very well strong i thought, escpecially my Tornado got a draw against Critter in Thüringen

well, ok, lets wait how much improvements will critter in future made, its not easy at this high level to finding anything else again to improve the strength.
Only its overtake houdini in short time and maybe its the number one at all rating list.

Ok, i am still suspious at the big jumps from critter in the last moth/years of strength, but the future will tell us about the thruth of this engine.