20th Amateur Series Division 2

[Graham Banks]

20TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 2)

Intel Q6600 Quad Core
ChessGUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
HS-Large Remis book (limited to 12 moves)
40 moves in 32 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 32-bit 1CPU

Thanks to Harald Johnsen for a script he wrote that makes it much easier for me to post round by round results and standings.

The top engine will gain automatic promotion and the bottom engine will be automatically relegated. The second top engine and the second from bottom engines (perhaps others also) will play grading matches to determine which division they will play in for the next series.

Participants

Scorpio 2.5
BugChess2 1.6.4
Daydreamer 1.75
Cyrano 0.6b17
Umko 0.8
Colossus 2008b
Chronos 1.9.7
Hamsters 0.7.1
The Baron 2.23
Sloppy 0.2.2
Brutus 8.05
N2 0.4

[Graham Banks]

I will post updates here after every six rounds, but those wanting to follow the tournament more closely can do so from here:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... f=7&t=5058
The games will be available for download after every two rounds from there.

[Martin Thoresen]

Go Daydreamer!

[Graham Banks]

Go Daydreamer!

Daydreamer should do well in this field.
I've really been looking forward to this division. Should be a good tussle.

Cheers,
Graham.

[Aaron Becker]

Go Daydreamer!

I agree wholeheartedly.

[alpha123]

Go Daydreamer!

I agree wholeheartedly.

Me too .

BTW did you just go up from division 4 or 5 to division 2?! Impressive.

Peter

[Graham Banks]

Go Daydreamer!

I agree wholeheartedly.

Me too .

BTW did you just go up from division 4 or 5 to division 2?! Impressive.

Peter

Daydreamer and Umko both came up from Division 4.

[Aaron Becker]

Go Daydreamer!

I agree wholeheartedly.

Me too .

BTW did you just go up from division 4 or 5 to division 2?! Impressive.

Peter

Thanks! I'm very happy with fast Daydreamer has been improving, and I still have a lot of ideas for making it even better. I'm hoping it will make it to division 1 (and ideally also the CCRL top 20) some time this year.

[Graham Banks]

20TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 2)

Intel Q6600 Quad Core
ChessGUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
HS-Large Remis book (limited to 12 moves)
40 moves in 32 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 32-bit 1CPU

Thanks to Harald Johnsen for a script he wrote that makes it much easier for me to post round by round results and standings.

The top engine will gain automatic promotion and the bottom engine will be automatically relegated. The second top engine and the second from bottom engines (perhaps others also) will play grading matches to determine which division they will play in for the next series.

Standings after Round 6

4.5 - Chronos 1.9.7
4.5 - Umko 0.8
4.0 - Cyrano 0.6b17
3.0 - Sloppy 0.2.2 32-bit
3.0 - The Baron 2.23
3.0 - Colossus 2008b
2.5 - Hamsters 0.7.1
2.5 - N2 0.4
2.5 - Scorpio 2.5 32-bit
2.5 - BugChess2 1.6.4 32-bit
2.5 - Daydreamer 1.75 32-bit
1.5 - Brutus 8.05 32-bit

[Adam Hair]

Go Daydreamer!

I agree wholeheartedly.

Me too .

BTW did you just go up from division 4 or 5 to division 2?! Impressive.

Peter

Thanks! I'm very happy with fast Daydreamer has been improving, and I still have a lot of ideas for making it even better. I'm hoping it will make it to division 1 (and ideally also the CCRL top 20) some time this year.

I'm not certain how the 32 bit version will do in Graham's tournament, but
after 450+ games the 64 bit version of Daydreamer seems to be as strong
as Frenzee Feb08 x64, BugChess 1.6.4 x64, and Delfi 5.4 on my list. That
would put it in the 2750 - 2800 range on the CCRL 40/4 list.

Good luck with the improvements Aaron