Engine Festival 2012

[Hugo]

a wonderfull game played by Junior, and one of the quickest black.wins in the tourney:

[Event "60 Minutes/Game + 15 Seconds/Move"]
[Site "Engine Festival 2012, KECK-PC"]
[Date "2012.12.16"]
[Round "1.6"]
[White "Deep Shredder 12 x64 x4"]
[Black "Deep Junior 13.3 x4"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A34"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[EventDate "2012.??.??"]

1. c4 {book 0s} c5 {book 0s} 2. g3 {book 0s} Nf6 {book 0s} 3. Bg2 {book 0s} d5
{book 0s} 4. cxd5 {+0.24/20 1:54m} Nxd5 {book 0s} 5. Nc3 {+0.24/21 2:16m} Nc7 {
book 0s (Nxc3)} 6. Qa4+ {+0.51/20 2:49m} Bd7 {+0.24/22 1:52m (Qd7)} 7. Qb3 {
+0.56/21 1:50m} Nc6 {+0.04/22 43s} 8. Qxb7 {+0.59/20 0s} Nd4 {0.00/22 2:04m} 9.
Qe4 {+0.47/20 3s (Rb1)} g6 {+0.02/21 1:21m} 10. Qb1 {+0.40/20 37s} Bg7 {
+0.09/22 58s (Rb8)} 11. Bxa8 {+0.56/20 50s (e3)} Qxa8 {-0.07/21 3:26m} 12. f3 {
+0.44/21 8s} Na6 {-0.22/23 2:51m} 13. Kf1 {+0.36/22 0s (Kf2)} Nb4 {
-0.59/22 3:00m (Bc6)} 14. Qe4 {0.00/19 41s (Kg2)} Bc6 {-0.74/21 1:24m} 15. Qf4
{-0.02/20 0s} O-O {-1.17/22 2:35m (Qb7)} 16. d3 {-0.70/19 9:20m} e5 {
-1.60/24 0s (Qb7)} 17. Qg5 {-2.21/19 27:55m (Qd2)} f5 {-1.61/22 2:16m} 18. h4 {
-2.28/16 2:29m} Bf6 {-1.61/21 49s} 19. Qd2 {-2.29/17 59s} e4 {-1.66/21 0s} 20.
Rh2 {-1.81/17 1:23m (h5)} exd3 {-2.04/20 1:41m (exf3)} 21. a3 {-2.57/17 2:58m}
Nbc2 {-2.93/22 58s} 22. Rb1 {-3.15/15 3s} dxe2+ {-3.15/21 1:15m} 23. Rxe2 {
-3.31/16 0s} f4 {-3.30/23 3:39m (Bxf3)} 24. gxf4 {-3.41/15 47s} Bxf3 {
-3.53/22 2:55m} 25. Rf2 {-4.11/18 0s} Bb7 {-3.53/22 50s (Be4)} 26. Qd3 {
-4.22/17 2:10m} Bxh4 {-3.95/21 2:59m (Re8)} 27. Bd2 {-6.48/16 4:51m} Qc8 {
-4.53/18 42s} 28. Nce2 {-6.61/16 2s} Ba6 {-5.97/20 30s} 0-1

well done!

regards, C.K.

[Hugo]

Day 3

Game of the day, Equinox vs ClusterToga. A nice win in the French variation.

http://www.clemens-keck.de/Festival2012/pearl1.htm

C.K.

[beram]

Day 3

Game of the day, Equinox vs ClusterToga. A nice win in the French variation.

http://www.clemens-keck.de/Festival2012/pearl1.htm

C.K.

Nice game to replay indeed.
Critical point is this position. Equinox played 25 Qxh4+ , where Qg7 + Kd6 Qe5+ leads to a perpetual and draw Equinox plays for a win
After the played 25 Qxh4+ Kd6 26 Qf3? is the loosing move.
Houdini comes up with Bg6 and f4! in analysis as better moves

[d] r1bqr3/pp2k3/1n2p2Q/3p4/1P5b/P7/2B2PPP/2R1R1K1 w - - 0 25

at depth 23:

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{Houdini 3 x64: 1)} 27. f4 Nc4 28. Be4 b5 29. Bxd5 Qb6+ 30. Kh1 Kxd5 31. Rcd1+ Kc6 32. Qf3+ Kc7 33. Qxa8 Bd7 34. Qd5 Qc6 35. fxe5 {[%eval 39,21]}) 

({Houdini 3 x64: 2)} 27. Bg6 Bd7 28. a4 Qf6 29. Bxe8 Rxe8 30. b5 Rf8 31. Qe3 e4 32. Qc5+ Ke6 33. f3 Rc8 34. Qe3 Rxc1 35. Qxc1 Qd4+ 36. Kh1 Qxa4 37. Qh6+ Ke5 38. Qg5+ Ke6 39. Qh6+ Ke5 {[%eval 0,22]}) 

({Houdini 3 x64: 3)} 27. Qe3 d4 28. Qg3 Qf6 29. Rcd1 Kd7 30. Re4 Kc7 31. Rexd4 Be6 32. Qc3+ Kb8 33. Rd6 Rc8 34. Qd3 Qf7 35. Rd8 a5 36. Rxc8+ Nxc8 37. b5 Qc7 38. Bb3 e4 39. Qe3 Bxb3 40. Qxb3 a4 41. Qe6 Ra5 42. Qxe4 Rxb5 43. Qxa4 Rb2 44. Rd7 Rb1+ 45. Rd1 {[%eval -29,21]}

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[Hugo]

another nice "game of the day" , played between Naum and Stockfish.
Thrilling game !


http://www.clemens-keck.de/Festival2012/pearl2.htm

C.K.

[michiguel]

I am done with live games. My wife complained about the low WebSpeed.
It takes too many bandwith.

Sorry
But I will update the webpage daily with the ReplayZone.
Crosstable updated automatic.

C.K.

http://www.clemens-keck.de/Festival2012/pearl3.htm

I think this game deserves a bump of the thread

Miguel

[Hugo]

Hi all

the first Cycle is done now. 231 games played. The tournament needs a lot of recources. Right now 24 cpus are involved and I am thinking about join in another 8 cpus. 3 games at the same time, 4 cpu each and ponder on. UFF

Here is the crosstable:


Houdini with a superb scoring.
The middle of the field is verry intresting.
After replacing Gaviota which had a hash bug, it begins to score points.
Book is doing well after a few adjustments. Verry less losses right out of book and a good spread over the ECO codes.
Cycle 2 is running.

Games and replayzone updated daily.

Regards, Clemens

Hi all

after lots of pre-tests NOW I have started a new tournament.
It is for MP engines only.

4cpu,
ponder ON
60 +15
22 participants, nice mix
2 games running at the same time.

One game shall be live transmitted and be seen in your browser (beta stadium, still working on that)

Crosstable and pgn comes soon. Just want to make the screenleap working better.

Informations and updates on my webpage.

Lets have nice games

Clemens Keck

http://www.clemens-keck.de/base.htm

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[gleperlier]

wonderful tournament

[michiguel]

Houdini with a superb scoring.
The middle of the field is verry intresting.
After replacing Gaviota which had a hash bug, it begins to score points.

I would like to thank Clemens publicly, and to all testers who put an effort in not only running tournaments, but also in paying attention to possible problems, detect it, and inform the programmers about it. Clemens pro-actively looked for a problem when he saw that this Gaviota beta version was losing all the games, and found that it was not initializing the memory it was told by the GUI. Another hero, Adam Hair, reproduced the problem for me in Windows and sent me the logs. After that, it took me 5 minutes to fix it.

Miguel
PS: For the technically inclined, it was an aliasing problem of a global variable in the code that process UCI commands. It showed up in this version because I used for the first time the compiler switch -O3 in Mingw64

Book is doing well after a few adjustments. Verry less losses right out of book and a good spread over the ECO codes.
Cycle 2 is running.

Games and replayzone updated daily.

Regards, Clemens

[Hugo]

Hi ALL

hope you had a nice Christmas

After a while my tournament has reached the 400 games(60+15,4cpu,ponder=ON!). I estimate it will be finished in 2 days.
So many intresting games...I cannot find "the game of the day". There are too many in one day which are highly intresting.
A few engines lost because of errors, crashes, engine stops. All in all <10 games in total yet.
Some statistics:
Average game length is 61 moves. So it was a good choice to play with tablebases, 60 +15 can be verry long game.
Games : 402 (finished)

White Wins : 151 (37.6 %)
Black Wins : 109 (27.1 %)
Draws : 142 (35.3 %)
Unfinished : 0

White Perf. : 55.2 %
Black Perf. : 44.8 %

ECO A = 67 Games (16.7 %)
ECO B = 106 Games (26.4 %)
ECO C = 73 Games (18.2 %)
ECO D = 100 Games (24.9 %)
ECO E = 56 Games (13.9 %)

have a nice day

Clemens Keck

http://www.clemens-keck.de/base.htm

[velmarin]

Thanks Clemens.

Nice tournament.
Happy Chrismats and Happy new year.