11th Amateur Series Division 1

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11th Amateur Series Division 1

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11TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 1)

AMD64x2 Dual Core
Fritz 11 GUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
HS-Variety.ctg book
40 moves in 38 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL 40/40)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 32-bit 1CPU
Updated versions will only be introduced before the completion of the first cycle.
The bottom engine is likely to be relegated into Division 2 for the following series. The second bottom engine will play a ten game match against the second top engine from Division 2 to determine which divisions they are likely to play in for the following season.
Participants

Thinker 5.4a Inert
Grapefruit 1.0b
Toga II 1.4.1SE
Cyclone 3.1
TheMadPrune 1.1.25
Stockfish 1.2
Fruit 2.3.1
Glaurung 2.2
Bright 0.3a
Booot 4.15.0
Twisted Logic 20080620
Delfi 5.4

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Standings after Round 6 of 44

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11TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 1)

AMD64x2 Dual Core
Fritz 11 GUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
HS-Variety.ctg book
40 moves in 38 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL 40/40)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 32-bit 1CPU
Updated versions will only be introduced before the completion of the first cycle.
The bottom engine is likely to be relegated into Division 2 for the following series. The second bottom engine will play a ten game match against the second top engine from Division 2 to determine which divisions they are likely to play in for the following season.
Standings after Round 6

4.0 - Grapefruit 1.0b
4.0 - Delfi 5.4
4.0 - Toga II 1.4.1SE
4.0 - Fruit 2.3.1
3.5 - Bright 0.3a
3.5 - TheMadPrune 1.1.25
3.0 - Booot 4.15.0
2.5 - Thinker 5.4a Inert
2.5 - Twisted Logic 20080620
2.5 - Stockfish 1.2
2.0 - Cyclone 3.1
0.5 - Glaurung 2.2


This tournament can be followed more closely with games available for download after every couple of rounds from here:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... f=7&t=4212
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Standings after Round 12 of 44

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11TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 1)

AMD64x2 Dual Core
Fritz 11 GUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
HS-Variety.ctg book
40 moves in 38 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL 40/40)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 32-bit 1CPU
Updated versions will only be introduced before the completion of the first cycle.
The bottom engine is likely to be relegated into Division 2 for the following series. The second bottom engine will play a ten game match against the second top engine from Division 2 to determine which divisions they are likely to play in for the following season.
Standings after Round 12

8.5 - Toga II 1.4.1SE
7.0 - Grapefruit 1.0
7.0 - Fruit 2.3.1
7.0 - TheMadPrune 1.1.25
6.5 - Cyclone 3.4
6.5 - Delfi 5.4
6.0 - Thinker 5.4a Inert
6.0 - Bright 0.3a
5.5 - Twisted Logic 20080620
5.0 - Stockfish 1.2
4.0 - Booot 4.15.0
3.0 - Glaurung 2.2


This tournament can be followed more closely with games available for download after every couple of rounds from here:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... f=7&t=4212
gbanksnz at gmail.com
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Tournament aborted and will be rerun

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The Fritz 11 GUI just doesn't seem to allow some engines (Glaurung 2.2 and Stockfish 1.2) to operate properly on this one computer of mine, so I'm going to rerun the tournament under ChessGUI.
All of the other divisions in this particular series will also be run under ChessGUI to be consistent.
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Re: Tournament aborted and will be rerun

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Graham Banks wrote:The Fritz 11 GUI just doesn't seem to allow some engines (Glaurung 2.2 and Stockfish 1.2) to operate properly on this one computer of mine, so I'm going to rerun the tournament under ChessGUI.
All of the other divisions in this particular series will also be run under ChessGUI to be consistent.
Hi Graham,
what about setting up the tournament in ChessGUI and importing played games ?
That would at least test the import feature :wink: .
Best,
Matthias.
My engine was quite strong till I added knowledge to it.
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Re: Tournament aborted and will be rerun

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Matthias Gemuh wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:The Fritz 11 GUI just doesn't seem to allow some engines (Glaurung 2.2 and Stockfish 1.2) to operate properly on this one computer of mine, so I'm going to rerun the tournament under ChessGUI.
All of the other divisions in this particular series will also be run under ChessGUI to be consistent.
Hi Graham,
what about setting up the tournament in ChessGUI and importing played games ?
That would at least test the import feature :wink: .
Best,
Matthias.
True, but I prefer to start the tourney afresh for the sake of consistency. :)
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Re: Tournament aborted and will be rerun

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Graham Banks wrote:The Fritz 11 GUI just doesn't seem to allow some engines (Glaurung 2.2 and Stockfish 1.2) to operate properly on this one computer of mine, so I'm going to rerun the tournament under ChessGUI.
All of the other divisions in this particular series will also be run under ChessGUI to be consistent.
Hi Graham,

could you please be more specific about the issue with Stockfish under Fritz 11?

I normally use Fritz 11 GUI to test Stockfish because I prefer over Arena, expecially in bullet time games, but I never saw something strange (with Arena sometime engines lose on time and I have to test 1'+0.3'' instead of 1'+0'' games as I can do under Fritz 11 without problems).

Perhaps I could reproduce your issues with Stockfish and try to fix for the next release.

Thanks
Marco
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Re: Tournament aborted and will be rerun

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mcostalba wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:The Fritz 11 GUI just doesn't seem to allow some engines (Glaurung 2.2 and Stockfish 1.2) to operate properly on this one computer of mine, so I'm going to rerun the tournament under ChessGUI.
All of the other divisions in this particular series will also be run under ChessGUI to be consistent.
Hi Graham,

could you please be more specific about the issue with Stockfish under Fritz 11?

I normally use Fritz 11 GUI to test Stockfish because I prefer over Arena, expecially in bullet time games, but I never saw something strange (with Arena sometime engines lose on time and I have to test 1'+0.3'' instead of 1'+0'' games as I can do under Fritz 11 without problems).

Perhaps I could reproduce your issues with Stockfish and try to fix for the next release.

Thanks
Marco
Stockfish works fine on my other computers. It's only on my AMD64x2 that both Glaurung 2.2 and Stockfish 1.2 play up.
The kns goes down to below 20 at times and only averages between 200-500 for the game.
Tried the deleting .cbrecent and .cblay files and rebooting fix suggested elsewhere. Tried Dennis' specially made compiles. Same problem.

Cheers, Graham.
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