36th Amateur Series Division 2

[Graham Banks]

36TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 2)

Intel i5 Quad
ChessGUI
256mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
Playchess2012-1.cgb book
40 moves in 25 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 64-bit 1CPU where available

The top engine will gain automatic promotion and the bottom engine will gain automatic relegation. The second top engine and the second bottom engine might have to play grading matches to determine which division they will play in for the next series.

Standings after Round 30

22.0 - Spark 1.0 64-bit
19.5 - Nemo 1.0.1 64-bit
18.0 - Bouquet 1.2 64-bit
16.0 - Tornado 4.88 64-bit
15.0 - Crafty 23.4 64-bit
15.0 - BugChess2 1.9 64-bit
15.0 - Frenzee 3.5.19 64-bit
14.5 - Naraku 1.4
14.0 - Bobcat 3.25 64-bit
13.0 - Texel 1.01 64-bit
11.0 - Jonny 4.00
7.0 - Arasan 14.2 64-bit


This tournament can be followed more closely from the following link, where games will also be available for download after every two rounds:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... f=7&t=6655

Alternatively, if you install TLCV (Tom's Live Chess Viewer) on your computer, you can watch the games live move by move. You'll also be able to chat to others following the tournament in the chatroom there.
http://home.pacific.net.au/~tommyinoz/client.zip
Host - GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port - 16053

[Graham Banks]

36TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 2)

Intel i5 Quad
ChessGUI
256mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
Playchess2012-1.cgb book
40 moves in 25 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 64-bit 1CPU where available

The top engine will gain automatic promotion and the bottom engine will gain automatic relegation. The second top engine and the second bottom engine might have to play grading matches to determine which division they will play in for the next series.

Standings after Round 36

27.5 - Spark 1.0 64-bit
24.0 - Nemo 1.0.1 64-bit
22.0 - Bouquet 1.2 64-bit
19.5 - Tornado 4.88 64-bit
18.5 - Naraku 1.4
18.0 - BugChess2 1.9 64-bit
16.5 - Texel 1.01 64-bit
16.5 - Bobcat 3.25 64-bit
15.5 - Crafty 23.4 64-bit
15.5 - Frenzee 3.5.19 64-bit
15.0 - Jonny 4.00
7.5 - Arasan 14.2 64-bit


This tournament can be followed more closely from the following link, where games will also be available for download after every two rounds:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... f=7&t=6655

Alternatively, if you install TLCV (Tom's Live Chess Viewer) on your computer, you can watch the games live move by move. You'll also be able to chat to others following the tournament in the chatroom there.
http://home.pacific.net.au/~tommyinoz/client.zip
Host - GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port - 16053

[Graham Banks]

36TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 2)

Intel i5 Quad
ChessGUI
256mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
Playchess2012-1.cgb book
40 moves in 25 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 64-bit 1CPU where available

The top engine will gain automatic promotion and the bottom engine will gain automatic relegation. The second top engine and the second bottom engine might have to play grading matches to determine which division they will play in for the next series.

Standings after Round 42

30.5 - Spark 1.0 64-bit
26.5 - Nemo 1.0.1 64-bit
25.5 - Bouquet 1.2 64-bit
22.5 - Tornado 4.88 64-bit
21.0 - Naraku 1.4
21.0 - BugChess2 1.9 64-bit
20.5 - Texel 1.01 64-bit
19.0 - Jonny 4.00
19.0 - Frenzee 3.5.19 64-bit
19.0 - Bobcat 3.25 64-bit
17.0 - Crafty 23.4 64-bit
10.5 - Arasan 14.2 64-bit


This tournament can be followed more closely from the following link, where games will also be available for download after every two rounds:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... f=7&t=6655

Alternatively, if you install TLCV (Tom's Live Chess Viewer) on your computer, you can watch the games live move by move. You'll also be able to chat to others following the tournament in the chatroom there.
http://home.pacific.net.au/~tommyinoz/client.zip
Host - GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port - 16053

[Graham Banks]

36TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 2)

Intel i5 Quad
ChessGUI
256mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
Playchess2012-1.cgb book
40 moves in 25 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 64-bit 1CPU where available

The top engine will gain automatic promotion and the bottom engine will gain automatic relegation. The second top engine and the second bottom engine might have to play grading matches to determine which division they will play in for the next series.

Final Standings

31.5 - Spark 1.0 64-bit
28.0 - Nemo 1.0.1 64-bit
27.0 - Bouquet 1.2 64-bit
23.0 - Tornado 4.88 64-bit
22.5 - Texel 1.01 64-bit
22.5 - BugChess2 1.9 64-bit
21.5 - Naraku 1.4
20.5 - Jonny 4.00
19.5 - Bobcat 3.25 64-bit
19.0 - Frenzee 3.5.19 64-bit
18.0 - Crafty 23.4 64-bit
11.0 - Arasan 14.2 64-bit


The complete tournament pgn (zipped) can be downloaded here:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=27055

[velmarin]

Thank you very much Graham.

Another great tournament. I really enjoyed it and there is much to analizer.

Congratulations to the winners and all participants.

Thank you.

[Graham Banks]

Thank you very much Graham.

Another great tournament. I really enjoyed it and there is much to analizer.

Congratulations to the winners and all participants.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Division 2 is always a nice tournament and Bouquet really did well. Not too far off Division 1 status.

[jdart]

Clearly a difficult tournament for Arasan. Hopefully my next version will do better .

--Jon

[Graham Banks]

Clearly a difficult tournament for Arasan. Hopefully my next version will do better .

--Jon

Indeed.
Sometimes one has bad tournaments, so fingers crossed for a change of fortune next time.
Arasan is still a fine engine regardless.

[Desperado]

Wow, half a year back Crafty was playing in the first division and is now
close to the third. If I look to the participants of the 1.division i am pretty
sure we will see Spark again soon in the second one, although Spark
is already a very very strong engine.

thx for the tournament.

[Graham Banks]

Wow, half a year back Crafty was playing in the first division and is now
close to the third. If I look to the participants of the 1.division i am pretty
sure we will see Spark again soon in the second one, although Spark
is already a very very strong engine.

thx for the tournament.

Thanks Michael.

It's pretty tough gaining promotion into Division 1 and managing to stay there, as you're aware.

Nemo looks likely to have a playoff match against Quazar for a place in the next Division 1 tournament.