2008 ACCA Pan-Am Computer Chess Championships

[Tony Thomas]

I now do all RomiChess testing with learning dissabled since before P3k was released. So 39.5/100 is ligit!

I hope to get that 45% before the ACCA tournament! Fingers crossed!!

Edit: Oh sorry, no SMP support yet. And not enough time before the tourney. So, unless Tord comes to the rescue ...

Nay, no last minute untested changes, I doubt that Tord will come to the rescue, unless you can find few mistakes in his program like he offered a while back. Make sure you make a version that Kabitz, kabitz. I read that winboard can Kibitz on its on but I am not sure where that option is. Have you read my email yet? We should get a decent book about two weeks before the tournament, so that I can try and tune it a little bit. By the way, you can go ahead and sign us up for the tournament, I have already taken those 8th and 9th off.

[Michael Sherwin]

I now do all RomiChess testing with learning dissabled since before P3k was released. So 39.5/100 is ligit!

I hope to get that 45% before the ACCA tournament! Fingers crossed!!

Edit: Oh sorry, no SMP support yet. And not enough time before the tourney. So, unless Tord comes to the rescue ...

Nay, no last minute untested changes, I doubt that Tord will come to the rescue, unless you can find few mistakes in his program like he offered a while back. Make sure you make a version that Kabitz, kabitz. I read that winboard can Kibitz on its on but I am not sure where that option is. Have you read my email yet? We should get a decent book about two weeks before the tournament, so that I can try and tune it a little bit. By the way, you can go ahead and sign us up for the tournament, I have already taken those 8th and 9th off.

Okay, I will sign up, but first I must get some sleep.

If you can get Winboard to kabitz for Romi it would be better. There is a compiler bug that when kabitzing is enabled the learn file data is offset by one byte and as a result Romi crashes. The kabitzing code has nothing to do with the file system, but somehow it skrews it up. Maybe that is what was happening to Romi in the last ACCA event?

[Tony Thomas]

I now do all RomiChess testing with learning dissabled since before P3k was released. So 39.5/100 is ligit!

I hope to get that 45% before the ACCA tournament! Fingers crossed!!

Edit: Oh sorry, no SMP support yet. And not enough time before the tourney. So, unless Tord comes to the rescue ...

Nay, no last minute untested changes, I doubt that Tord will come to the rescue, unless you can find few mistakes in his program like he offered a while back. Make sure you make a version that Kabitz, kabitz. I read that winboard can Kibitz on its on but I am not sure where that option is. Have you read my email yet? We should get a decent book about two weeks before the tournament, so that I can try and tune it a little bit. By the way, you can go ahead and sign us up for the tournament, I have already taken those 8th and 9th off.

Okay, I will sign up, but first I must get some sleep.

If you can get Winboard to kabitz for Romi it would be better. There is a compiler bug that when kabitzing is enabled the learn file data is offset by one byte and as a result Romi crashes. The kabitzing code has nothing to do with the file system, but somehow it skrews it up. Maybe that is what was happening to Romi in the last ACCA event?

The problem was there even when Polyglot was doing the kibitzing, so the problem is independant of Kibitzing. Didnt you say you found a problem with Ponder, where if the move played by the opponent was compleltely different Romi deleted all the search data or something? Please go get some sleep.. I shall run Romi at the ACCA time control few times against opponents that I can find on ICC right after I get my computer.

[Michael Sherwin]

As before my email is not set up to use your registration system, so here is my registration request.

Name: Michael Sherwin
Email: You have it
Program Name: RomiChess
Tournament Presence: internet only
Operator Required : Yes
Operator Name: Tony Thomas
Team Members Names: Michael Sherwin, Tony Thomas, Dr. Wael Deeb
Book Software: RomiChess
Book Author: Dr. Wael Deeb
Endgame: None
Hardware: Dell Q6600 6mb
OS: ms vista 64
Do you have an ICC account?: No, Tony does
Current/desired username: RomiChess or whatever Tony uses
Country of Origin: U.S.A
State (If US): Ohio

Thanks!

[Tony Thomas]

As before my email is not set up to use your registration system, so here is my registration request.

Name: Michael Sherwin
Email: You have it
Program Name: RomiChess
Tournament Presence: internet only
Operator Required : Yes
Operator Name: Tony Thomas
Team Members Names: Michael Sherwin, Tony Thomas, Dr. Wael Deeb
Book Software: RomiChess
Book Author: Dr. Wael Deeb
Endgame: None
Hardware: Dell Q6600 6mb
OS: ms vista 64
Do you have an ICC account?: No, Tony does
Current/desired username: RomiChess or whatever Tony uses
Country of Origin: U.S.A
State (If US): Ohio

Thanks!

I finally set up the computer few minutes ago after I came back from work. The computer is working, I cant seem to find the installation disk for Bellsouth FastAccess, and cant find any blank CD-R's. I am either going to drive to wal-mart in few minutes or wait until tomorrow morning to get the internet working. Oh well, let me try few other things as well.

[Tony Thomas]

Hooray, I am finally got most stuff working. Now I shall re-arrange everything on this computer so that it looks like my old one. Romi is currently online..I am such a dummy, I didnt copy the rest of my engine files to this computer.

[Michael Sherwin]

Hooray, I am finally got most stuff working. Now I shall re-arrange everything on this computer so that it looks like my old one. Romi is currently online..I am such a dummy, I didnt copy the rest of my engine files to this computer.

You should have had Goat do it!

I will send you a new beta in a few days.

[CRoberson]

Two weeks left to register.

New entrants:
RomiChess by Michael Sherwin & operated by Tony Thomas
Dirty by Pradu Kannan and Anres Valverde

[Tony Thomas]

Charles, I think it would be fun to let everyone play. I remember that last time Learninglemming showed up at last minute before the tournament but wasnt allowed to play. Also, you showed up sort of late the last time.

[CRoberson]

Only 1 and half weeks to register.

If you don't/didn't hear from me in two days of registering, then
I didn't receive the registration. In that case, send me email or
post here.