Dirty Great Knockout

[Graham Banks]

Crafty 23.5 64-bit v DiscoCheck 4.0.3 64-bit

Oh no... Why do I get the hardest one

Good luck Lucas.

[Graham Banks]

Crafty 23.5 64-bit pulled out a win in the final game to tie the match with DiscoCheck 4.0.3 64-bit 4.0-4.0 (+3 =2 -3).

No idea which of the two engines will go through until the draw for the next round comes out though.

[lucasart]

Crafty 23.5 64-bit pulled out a win in the final game to tie the match with DiscoCheck 4.0.3 64-bit 4.0-4.0 (+3 =2 -3).

No idea which of the two engines will go through until the draw for the next round comes out though.

Hehe! Good performance by DiscoCheck to equalize Crafty (though it's only 8 games so it could be a lucky draw). So how do you decide which engine is qualified ? Toss a coin

[Graham Banks]

Crafty 23.5 64-bit pulled out a win in the final game to tie the match with DiscoCheck 4.0.3 64-bit 4.0-4.0 (+3 =2 -3).

No idea which of the two engines will go through until the draw for the next round comes out though.

Hehe! Good performance by DiscoCheck to equalize Crafty (though it's only 8 games so it could be a lucky draw). So how do you decide which engine is qualified ? Toss a coin

No idea. We'd need to ask Matthias how ChessGUI decides.

Meanwhile, I'm eagerly waiting for him to build in the sudden death decider/s for drawn matches.

[carldaman]

Hi Graham -- just wondering, aside from ChessGUI built-in functionality, is it possible to run a play-off match in parallel, between DiscoCheck and Crafty, maybe on another machine? The coin toss is such a cruel method to separate these two, that almost anything else seems better

Regards,
CL

[Graham Banks]

Hi Graham -- just wondering, aside from ChessGUI built-in functionality, is it possible to run a play-off match in parallel, between DiscoCheck and Crafty, maybe on another machine? The coin toss is such a cruel method to separate these two, that almost anything else seems better

Regards,
CL

Agreed Carl, but I can't change midway through the tournament.
One of the Round 1 Matches was randomly decided too (RedQueen v Ruffian).
Nice to have some nailbiting going on for the duration of the round, cruel person that I am!

[Codesquid]

Graham, what happened there at the 8th game between Chronos and Octochess? Totally drawn endgame and suddenly Octochess didn't move anymore with the clock ticking down to zero.

[Graham Banks]

Graham, what happened there at the 8th game between Chronos and Octochess? Totally drawn endgame and suddenly Octochess didn't move anymore with the clock ticking down to zero.

ChessGUI crashed. I had to restart and replay the game.

[lucasart]

Graham, what happened there at the 8th game between Chronos and Octochess? Totally drawn endgame and suddenly Octochess didn't move anymore with the clock ticking down to zero.

ChessGUI crashed. I had to restart and replay the game.

You could use cutechess-cli instead:
- you have a quad-code i5
- you are limiting engines to using 1 CPU
- so, in order to utilize your CPU time efficiently, you should be running 3 games concurrently at all times. Your tournament would run three times faster

If you are a bit frightened by having to use the command line, there's also LittleBlitzer for Windows. Very reliable and capable of playing many concurrent games at ultra-bullet time controls without any problems.

You can look at the PGN as games get completed in a GUI at the same time (you run 3 concurrent games so as to have always 1 CPU spare for the operating system and other tasks, should be fine so long as you're not encoding a video or sth).

[Graham Banks]

Graham, what happened there at the 8th game between Chronos and Octochess? Totally drawn endgame and suddenly Octochess didn't move anymore with the clock ticking down to zero.

ChessGUI crashed. I had to restart and replay the game.

You could use cutechess-cli instead:
- you have a quad-code i5
- you are limiting engines to using 1 CPU
- so, in order to utilize your CPU time efficiently, you should be running 3 games concurrently at all times. Your tournament would run three times faster

If you are a bit frightened by having to use the command line, there's also LittleBlitzer for Windows. Very reliable and capable of playing many concurrent games at ultra-bullet time controls without any problems.

You can look at the PGN as games get completed in a GUI at the same time (you run 3 concurrent games so as to have always 1 CPU spare for the operating system and other tasks, should be fine so long as you're not encoding a video or sth).

Thanks Lucas. I'm sticking to ChessGUI for now. Crashes are rare.
I do run three tournaments concurrently already, as one can have several instances of ChessGUI open and running games on the same computer.

Graham.