2009 ACCA World Computer Rapid Chess Championships

[mathmoi]

Hi, I sent an email to enter my engine MatMoi and I haven't receive any confirmation it was reveived or that my engine was registred.

[Werewolf]

A shared connection is different to having a home network - and if the computers are used by different people I wonder how the other users would react if dad says from now on sorry its my Chess Cluster.

i remain to be convinced let's see someone release a cluster version then we will see what happens.

How is it different? If you can connect to one machine, you can connect to all. You could even add your neighbor's machine if he agreed. And you should know that there are tons of projects (condor, etc) that are built around the idea of using idle machines, but getting out of the way if the real owner needs to run something so that wasted cycles can be used without causing slow-downs if the primary user tries to do something.

Ok lets see - release a crafty that people can do this with - I am sure if they need to set fixed ips etc this will be very easy.

what is "fixed ips" with respect to a program that is going to run on a network???

release your program for a cluster lets see how many get it to work.

I've just networked 2 vista machines for file sharing (sync toy) and I agree it could be easier.
But in 3 months Windows 7 should solve this. (I hope)

[CRoberson]

Since the web site is temporarily down. I'll produce our current entry list here.

We have 14 entrants from 8 countries. That is a start toward breaking our
entry record of 40 participants and our country record of 17.

In geographical order:

1) Twisted Logic
2) HIARCS
3) Diep
4) Deep Sjeng
5) The Baron
6) BugChess2
7) MatMoi
8) Thinker
9) Rybka
10) Symbolic
11) Telepath
12) Crafty
13) Dirty
14) Arasan

All original works are invited to enter. Remember: last place goes to those that
don't enter.

[CRoberson]

The game is a foot!

Not only does the current list have a strong batch of competitors, but
much has been happening. Tinker seems to be improved. Brian tells
me he rewrote the pawn eval code. Also, Symbolic is much stronger. Steven
has done something. Maybe his LISP code has become C++.

[F. Bluemers]

The game is a foot!

Not only does the current list have a strong batch of competitors, but
much has been happening. Tinker seems to be improved. Brian tells
me he rewrote the pawn eval code. Also, Symbolic is much stronger. Steven
has done something. Maybe his LISP code has become C++.

and the roadrunner is even faster now

[sje]

Also, Symbolic is much stronger. Steven
has done something. Maybe his LISP code has become C++.

Actually, the Lisp code has been split off into the CIL Toolkit. I will resume work on this after the WCRCC.

There has been a lot of effort spent on Symbolic, but there is much yet to be done. The current test version on ICC still has no ponder capability, and it's still using only a single search thread. With a bit of good luck, I should have these shortcomings fixed soon and by event time will have a version running on a 24 GB quad main machine with networked machines running specialized sub-searches.

[brianr]

Tinker seems to be improved. Brian tells me he rewrote the pawn eval code.

Ah, actually, Tinker has not registered as yet, since although I would very much like to play, it is my son's birthday that weekend.
Of course, Tinker could play just automatically, but I would miss the programmer interaction and banter.

Incidentally, the current version of Tinker 7.37 is still not playing as well as a much older version like 6.26.
I am still trying to clean up the code and will suffer with slightly poorer play to gain maintainable code. I am tired of tweaking Tinker to play just a bit better, and then finding code that is totally wrong and should not work, nevermind even playing better than without it.

Anyone else suffer this indignity?

[sje]

I am still trying to clean up the code and will suffer with slightly poorer play to gain maintainable code. I am tired of tweaking Tinker to play just a bit better, and then finding code that is totally wrong and should not work, nevermind even playing better than without it.

I've noticed several embarrassments while re-writing the C++ portion of Symbolic. In one of them, I had some temporary test routines that I had forgotten to remove -- and they were consuming a full ten percent of search time. In another, the connected passed pawn bonus was given only to unconnected passed pawns. And there was that mysterious deadly embrace thread fault that occurred about once per every couple of hundred hours of play and was too painful to hunt down and correct.

[Olivier Deville]

Hi all

I very much like to be an operator for these live events

Available machines :

Quad 9300 and Dual Opteron 252, both on WindowsXP Pro 64.

Olivier

[CRoberson]

Hi all

I very much like to be an operator for these live events

Available machines :

Quad 9300 and Dual Opteron 252, both on WindowsXP Pro 64.

Olivier

I don't recognize the cpu Quad 9300. Is that a miss-type.