On-line engine tourney January

[hgm]

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

Saturday January 18, 3pm Boston time (21:00 Amsterdam time)

This will be a good opportunity to test for CCT, which will be held on the same server! To connect:

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

(for UCI engines, add -fUCI)

[ymatioun]

I would like my program to participate in the tournament, for the first time. You did post winboard command for it, but is there anything else i need to do? What about login/password? Do i need to do something after connecting to join the tournament?

If there is a place where these questions are answered, perhaps you can direct me there.

Thanks.

[hgm]

You will need a registered account for the engine to play in the tourney. (Otherwise the automated tournament manager will not recognize it when it tries to check its rating.) Send me a PM with the desired username (preferably the name of your engine) and your e-mail address, then I can create one.

[hgm]

Don't miss your last test opportunity before CCT!

[hgm]

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:Tourney Players: Round 9 of 9 
:
:     Name              Rating Score Perfrm Upset  Results 
:     ----------------- ------ ----- ------ ------ ------- 
:  1 +Nightmare         [2023]  8.0  [2201] [  19] +18w +03w =08b =02b +07w +05w +04b +06w +09b 
:  2 +Chiron            [2062]  7.5  [2117] [   0] +11w +09w +05b =01w =08b =04w +07b +03w +12b 
:  3 +Texel             [1887]  6.5  [1935] [ 133] +20w -01b +15w +14b =04w +06w +10b -02b +07w 
:  4 +Zappa             [2022]  6.0  [1990] [  20] +12w +06w =10b =08w =03b =02b -01w +05b +14w 
:  5 +CraftyRB          [1949]  5.5  [1899] [   2] +19w +14b -02w =07b +10w -01b +08w -04w +18b 
:  6 +Gaviota           [1829]  5.5  [1738] [  80] +21w -04b +13w =12b +14w -03b +18w -01b +08w 
:  7 -WaDuuttie         [1953]  5.0  [1820] [   0] +15w =10w +09b =05w -01b +13b -02w +14w -03b 
:  8 -Goldbar           [1909]  5.0  [1819] [ 189] +13w +11b =01w =04b =02w =12w -05b +10w -06b
:  9 +ArasanX           [1898]  5.0  [1698] [   0] +16w -02b -07w -10b +18b +11w +12b +15w -01w 
: 10 +Rookie            [1813]  5.0  [1785] [ 259] +17w =07b =04w +09w -05b +15b -03w -08b +20b 
: 11 +Spartacus         [1514]  5.0  [1582] [   0] -02b -08w +18b +16w -12b -09b +15w +22b +19w 
: 12 +Capivara          [1505]  5.0  [1684] [ 376] -04b +21w +20b =06w +11w =08b -09w +18b -02w 
: 13 +microMax          [1261]  5.0  [1535] [ 414] -08b +22w -06b +17w +20b -07w -14b +16w +21b 
: 14 -Arminius          [1740]  4.0  [1667] [   0] +23b -05w +16b -03w -06b +17w +13w -07b -04b 
: 15 +NebiyuHG          [1351]  4.0  [1545] [ 324] -07b +17w -03b +19w +16b -10w -11b -09b +22w 
: 16 +Abulafia          [1159]  4.0  [1362] [ 622] -09b +19b -14w -11b -15w +22b +21w -13b +17w
: 17 +NGN               [   0]  4.0  [1226] [3286] -10b -15b +19w -13b +21w -14b +22w +20w -16b 
: 18 +Joker             [1508]  3.0  [1422] [   0] -01b +20w -11w +21b -09w +19b -06b -12w -05w 
: 19 +NumptyX           [1265]  3.0  [1197] [   0] -05b -16w -17b -15b +22w -18w +20b +21w -11b 
: 20 +DeepBrutePos      [1029]  2.0  [1188] [   0] -03b -18b -12w +22b -13w +21b -19w -17b -10w 
: 21 +POS               [ 992]  1.0  [1003] [   0] -06b -12b +22w -18w -17b -20w -16b -19b -13w 
: 22 +_BYE_             [   0]  0.0  [ 880] [   0] -13b -21b -20w -19b -16w -17b -11w -15b 
: 23 -Fizbo             [forf]  0.0  [1340] [   0] -14w 
:
:     Average Rating    1633.4 
:

Fizbo kept crashing, and had to withdraw from the tourney.

[Modern Times]

Very enjoyable tournament, thanks HG.

A respectable result for Zappa Mexico, an engine released in 2007. It played on an AMD Phenom II X6, so decent hardware, but also not very fast by today's standards.

[Tom Likens]

Very enjoyable tournament, thanks HG.

A respectable result for Zappa Mexico, an engine released in 2007. It played on an AMD Phenom II X6, so decent hardware, but also not very fast by today's standards.

Yeah, I would have liked to play but work wouldn't permit it. I wonder if Nightmare is every going to be made public. I'm more than a little curious to see how it would fare in the ratings lists, it's very strong.

regards,
--tom

[Sargon]

I've tried to follow the tournament with Jin under OSX but couldn't get it to display a GUI version of the games... just the ASCII ones... I've tried board styles 1-12 but to no avail. Anyone knows what I'm missing here?

Or other recommendations to follow FICS-tourneys under OSX?

Sargon

[hgm]

XBoard, of course.

[jshriver]

Yeah, I would have liked to play but work wouldn't permit it. I wonder if Nightmare is every going to be made public. I'm more than a little curious to see how it would fare in the ratings lists, it's very strong.

regards,
--tom

It's a wonderful engine, there is a copy running on the OICS server 24/7 if you ever want to watch.

-Josh
http://olympuschess.com/tourney