16th World Computer Chess Championship (Blitz)

[pedrox]

Champion Sjeng!

http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/t ... php?id=191

which is the control of time to blitz and standard?

[Tony Thomas]

The link says that only 2 rounds were played. Half of the engines only played 1 round. Is this a joke? I dont think Sjeng won, who ever gets the highest score gets that title, I think its just bad website design.


Edit: I feel like such a fool, the website just has wrong info..

Here is the info I copied from the forum that needs some air-freshner badly..I recommend Airwick Freshmatic..

1. Deep Sjeng 6.5

2. Hiarcs 6.0
Falcon
Shredder
Rybka

6. Junior 4.5
Cluster Toga

8. The Baron 3

9. Jonny 2.5

10. Mobile 0
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www.Hiarcs.com

[Steve B]

Here is the info I copied from the forum that needs some air-freshner badly..I recommend Airwick Freshmatic..

not nice to talk about the Rybka Forum that way Tony


Live from the forum devoid of name regards
Steve

[Tony Thomas]

Here is the info I copied from the forum that needs some air-freshner badly..I recommend Airwick Freshmatic..

not nice to talk about the Rybka Forum that way Tony


Live from the forum devoid of name regards
Steve

Time to put some of them on the no-bean diet..

[CRoberson]

It shows all 45 games played now.

[CRoberson]

Does this teach us a lesson?

-> Don't bring a cluster to a blitz match.

Quite possible that could be a correct lesson. Intercluster communication
is slow compared to memory to cpu communication which you have
on SMP machines.

A Cluster tuned well for long TC's may not do so well at blitz.

[Tony Thomas]

Does this teach us a lesson?

-> Don't bring a cluster to a blitz match.

Quite possible that could be a correct lesson. Intercluster communication
is slow compared to memory to cpu communication which you have
on SMP machines.

A Cluster tuned well for long TC's may not do so well at blitz.

It isnt like Rybka performed horribly. Baron (Arturo's book right??) and Falcon (Erdo's book) got lucky against Rybka. I would say anything is possible in a 10 players 1RR tournament.

[Dirt]

Champion Sjeng!

http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/t ... php?id=191

which is the control of time to blitz and standard?

Where's Fritz 5.32? I heard it got a draw!

[Tony Thomas]

Champion Sjeng!

http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/t ... php?id=191

which is the control of time to blitz and standard?

Where's Fritz 5.32? I heard it got a draw!

I was about to post that.. In the initial of Rybka against Flacon, accidentally they loaded Fritz 5.32 instead of Rybka..

About the poor results of Rybka in the speedchess tournament: In the first round the Falcon operator, or Fal conartist as I like to call him after he showed me some illegal tricks in speedchess, was very happy to draw Rybka. But not so much anymore after I told him that by mistake he played Fritz 5.32. The cluster was not running and switching engines twice helps. But either I only switched once or the second switch gave a load error which I missed. For being so honest about it I was rewarded by a forfeit. Because of the time you lose with the transfer of moves to and from the cluster and of course the operator time, I gave Rybka only 2 minutes. In the next long game against The Baron the 2 minutes were gone, but still enough time on the clock and a mate score. But Rybka refused to move. It was not a disconnect. I gave it a different time control and the startup position was showed. So I had to go into the database to recover the game and after a few moves I lost on time. For round 3 I had a good think what to do. I decided to give Rybka 3 minutes for 100 moves and that worked better. I won 5 games and drew 2. The draw against Cluster Toga was Erdo's fault. He put in a drawish line of 72 ply. The draw against Hiarcs was unavoidable. Harvey is my friend, so I decided that I would ignore Rybka's clear winscore of +0.09 and offered a draw. Harvey thankfully accepted.

[Karmazen & Oliver]

Champion Sjeng!

http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/t ... php?id=191

which is the control of time to blitz and standard?

how many time ?