41st Amateur Series Division 7

[Graham Banks]

41ST AMATEUR SERIES (Division 7)

Intel i5 Quad
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
WorldClass2012-3.cgb book
40 moves in 25 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 36 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

23.5 - Butcher 1.64 64-bit
21.0 - Tigran 2.3 64-bit
19.5 - Gibbon 2.57a 64-bit
19.0 - Carballo 0.8
18.5 - FireFly 2.6.0 64-bit
18.0 - Waxman 2011
16.5 - ProChess 1.02AD
15.0 - MadChess 1.2 64-bit
15.0 - Shallow 1.0 64-bit
14.0 - ChessKiss 1.7 64-bit


The complete tournament pgn (zipped) can be downloaded here:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=29836

[Edoardo Manino]

Thankyou for the tournament, Graham,
my engine did not do well in the second half,
but the next version will do better,
yeah, it must do better,
if I had only more spare time to develop it...

[Graham Banks]

Thankyou for the tournament, Graham,
my engine did not do well in the second half,
but the next version will do better,
yeah, it must do better,
if I had only more spare time to develop it...

Looking forward to an improved version already!