40th Amateur Series Division 7

[Edoardo Manino]

ProChess is performing suspiciously well

[Graham Banks]

ProChess is performing suspiciously well

It's just getting your hopes up!
It will do well if it can maintain second spot ahead of some pretty tough competition, so good luck.

[Dan Honeycutt]

ProChess is performing suspiciously well

I thought that about Cupcake after the first few games but then it folded like a cheap tent in a tornado.

Best
Dan H.

[Graham Banks]

40TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 7)

Intel i5 Quad
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
ChessOK2012-3.cgb book
40 moves in 25 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 52 rounds
All engines 64-bit where available

The top engine will gain automatic promotion. Any other changes of division will be at my discretion and may not necessarily involve playoff matches.

Standings after Round 48

35.0 - Capivara LK 0.09a01a 64-bit
32.0 - FireFly 2.6.0 64-bit
31.5 - ProChess 1.02AD
31.5 - Tigran 2.3 64-bit
30.0 - Gibbon 2.57a 64-bit
29.0 - Rhetoric Lite
29.0 - ChessKiss 1.7 64-bit
27.5 - Shallow 1.0 64-bit
25.0 - MadChess 1.2
19.0 - BigLion 2.23x
19.0 - Cupcake 1.1a
11.0 - Dabbaba 7.49
9.0 - Soldat III 0.172
7.5 - Jabba 13032012


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=6987

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

The tournament is also being broadcast in Playchess.

[Graham Banks]

40TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 7)

Intel i5 Quad
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
ChessOK2012-3.cgb book
40 moves in 25 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 52 rounds
All engines 64-bit where available

The top engine will gain automatic promotion. Any other changes of division will be at my discretion and may not necessarily involve playoff matches.

Final Standings

36.5 - Capivara LK 0.09a01a 64-bit
35.0 - Tigran 2.3 64-bit
33.5 - ProChess 1.02AD
33.5 - FireFly 2.6.0 64-bit
32.0 - Rhetoric Lite
32.0 - ChessKiss 1.7 64-bit
31.5 - Gibbon 2.57a 64-bit
29.0 - MadChess 1.2
29.0 - Shallow 1.0 64-bit
20.5 - Cupcake 1.1a
20.0 - BigLion 2.23x
12.5 - Dabbaba 7.49
10.5 - Soldat III 0.172
8.5 - Jabba 13032012


The complete tournament pgn (zipped) can be downloaded here:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=29377

[Edoardo Manino]

Woha! Third place!
Thanks Graham!

[Graham Banks]

Woha! Third place!
Thanks Graham!

Nice result for ProChess.

[emadsen]

Thanks for running a great tournament, Graham. I am satisfied with MadChess' results in its "debut" tournament. MadChess...

Scored better than 50%.
Won a game against 11 of 13 opponents.
Had an equal or winning record against 7 of 13.

Clearly it can hang with engines in this division. I'll review the games later this week. Thanks again.

[laoliveirajr]

Thank you Graham,
for a great tournament!

Normally the Capivara will best in the tournaments with smaller time control, but in this 40/40 the Capivara had the amazing performance.

Thanks for testing the Capivara chess engine.
You are a great motivator for those programmers who have less time and resources.

Best wishes
Lourenço

[Graham Banks]

Thanks Erik and Lourenco.