On-line engine tourney October

[hgm]

The on-line engine blitz tourney for October will take place on:

Saturday October 19, 3pm Boston time (21:00 Amsterdam time)

winboard -zp -ics -icshost 83.163.204.254 -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz

(for UCI engines, add -fUCI)

Note: this assumes Boston will still be on daylight saving time!

[hgm]

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:Tourney Players: Round 9 of 9 
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:     Name              Rating Score Perfrm Upset  Results 
:     ----------------- ------ ----- ------ ------ ------- 
:  1 +GaviotaRB         [1957]  7.0  [2105] [ 115] +14w +07w +05b -02w =04b +06w +09b =03w +10b 
:  2 +Nightmare         [2015]  6.5  [2077] [  28] +08w +03w =04b +01b +09w +07b =05w =10b -06w 
:  3 +ArasanX           [1905]  6.5  [1967] [ 162] +16w -02b +06w +10w +14b =04w +11b =01b =05w 
:  4 +Goldbar           [1910]  6.0  [1954] [ 121] +12w +10b =02w +06b =01w =03b =07w -05b +16b 
:  5 +Chiron            [2072]  5.5  [1869] [   0] -10w +12b -01w =07b +15b +09w =02b +04w =03b 
:  6 +WaDuuttie         [1956]  5.5  [1769] [  59] +11w +09w -03b -04w +13b -01b =12w +15b +02b 
:  7 +Texel             [1881]  5.5  [1846] [ 109] +13w -01b +11w =05w +10b -02w =04b =08b +14w 
:  8 +Arminius          [1731]  5.5  [1694] [  75] -02b +16w -10b -09b +12w +13w +14b =07w +15w
:  9 +Almere            [1868]  5.0  [1733] [   0] +15w -06b +13b +08w -02b -05b -01w +12b +11w 
: 10 +Rookie            [1813]  4.5  [1813] [ 360] +05b -04w +08w -03b -07w +11b +16b =02w -01w 
: 11 +Spartacus         [1491]  3.5  [1562] [  37] -06b +15w -07b =13w +16b -10w -03w +14b -09b 
: 12 +Eichhoernchen     [1431]  3.5  [1575] [ 359] -04b -05w -15b +16w -08b +14w =06b -09w +13w 
: 13 +ProChess          [1305]  3.5  [1521] [ 372] -07b +14b -09w =11b -06w -08b +15w +16w -12b 
: 14 +Joker             [1528]  2.0  [1367] [   0] -01b -13w +16b +15w -03w -12b -08w -11w -07b 
: 15 +microMax          [1245]  2.0  [1415] [ 302] -09b -11b +12w -14b -05w +16w -13b -06w -08b 
: 16 +NebiyuHG          [1361]  0.0  [1195] [   0] -03b -08b -14w -12b -11w -15b -10w -13b -04w
:
:     Average Rating    1716.8 
:

NebiyuHG at some point was hanging, and did forfeit a number of games on time before I noticed it. Sorry about that. By the time I did notice, it had already been paired with all beatable opponents.

[Modern Times]

Another tournament where the top engines were so close anything could happen. But I'm happy to take the back to back victory for Gaviota

[michiguel]

Another tournament where the top engines were so close anything could happen. But I'm happy to take the back to back victory for Gaviota

Nail-biting!
Gaviota got the first place in the last round, when nightmare lost. The game gaviota won against Almere was incredibly lucky. Looked terrible and it turned around after what it seemed an attack pulled out of nowhere.

Miguel

[Joost Buijs]

Another tournament where the top engines were so close anything could happen. But I'm happy to take the back to back victory for Gaviota

Nail-biting!
Gaviota got the first place in the last round, when nightmare lost. The game gaviota won against Almere was incredibly lucky. Looked terrible and it turned around after what it seemed an attack pulled out of nowhere.

Miguel

A well deserved victory for Gaviota!

In the last round Nightmare (with white) somewhere made a wrong decision in the Marshall Attack. I still have to look at it. Normally it plays this very well. The day before the tournament I made several changes in the search, and I also changed some evaluation values because they seemed better with automatic tuning. It is not wise to play a tournament with untested versions, but it is a lot of fun! Unfortunately I don't have much time to work on it for the next couple of weeks.

[flok]

Ah darn, missed it again!
Well, it did not get much stronger since it played on HGM's server previously but timemanagement has been improved - I actually looked at how fairymax does it and implemented that in DBP.
Also I added an openingbook.

If anyone is willing to give it a try: it is connected to HGM's server right now and will be. I'm then also trying to figure out why xboard as it is in Debian Linux often crashes.

[petero2]

Ah darn, missed it again!
Well, it did not get much stronger since it played on HGM's server previously but timemanagement has been improved - I actually looked at how fairymax does it and implemented that in DBP.
Also I added an openingbook.

If anyone is willing to give it a try: it is connected to HGM's server right now and will be. I'm then also trying to figure out why xboard as it is in Debian Linux often crashes.

Assuming it was your engine that was logged in as GuestXMZN, I played 3 games against it using my engine. In all three games your engine made simple tactical mistakes that I think a 3-ply search should be able to find.

[d]r4r2/p1p2k2/1p1p3p/3n2p1/3B2bN/2PP4/P4PPP/1R2R1K1 w - g6 0 21
Move played: Rb5

[d]1rb1nrk1/p3bppp/2p1p3/q3P3/N2R1Q2/1P6/PBP1BPPP/R5K1 b - - 2 17
Move played: Ba6

[d]r3k2r/pp1q1p2/n1p2n2/4b1p1/4P2p/1BPP1P2/P2QNP1P/R4RK1 w kq - 0 1
Move played: Qxg5

I think you could make you engine a lot stronger if you can figure out why it played those moves. Maybe your q-search isn't working correctly?