54th Amateur Series Division 6

[Piotr Cichy]

Thank you Graham for the tourney.

This time good result of pikoSzachy Extreme Edition
Congratulations to all participants!

Now I have the opportunity to announce new version of pikoSzachy EE in about 2-3 weeks. It will be yet more extreme: the size will be another 1KB smaller (6.5 KB instead of 7.5KB) and it will be slightly stronger, about 30 ELO.

[Graham Banks]

Thank you Graham for the tourney.

This time good result of pikoSzachy Extreme Edition
Congratulations to all participants!

Now I have the opportunity to announce new version of pikoSzachy EE in about 2-3 weeks. It will be yet more extreme: the size will be another 1KB smaller (6.5 KB instead of 7.5KB) and it will be slightly stronger, about 30 ELO.

You're welcome Piotr.
Congratulations on the tourney victory and I'm really looking forward to the new pikoSzachy.
Are you still working on nanoSzachy?

Graham.

[Piotr Cichy]

Are you still working on nanoSzachy?

Graham.

I wasn't working on nanoSzachy for a long time, but some weeks ago I added variable reduction to my LMR implementation and now I'm tuning it. So far I got about 30 ELO improvement. The change can be applied to nanoSzachy, pikoSzachy and pikoSzachy EE, so I will probably release 3 new versions of my engines.

I didn't work on nanoSzachy for a long time, but occasionally made some changes to pikoSzachy, mainly optimisations for size.

[D Sceviour]

Re: 54th Amateur Series Division 6
I had a lot of fun in my first tournament on CCRL with Schooner. Congratulations to all the participants! The match was close and almost anybody could have won. Notable was Erik Madsen's MadChess that exceeded expectations and performed very well.

[op12no2]

Thanks Graham. I missed it all cos I've been in sailing mode but it looks like the girl did good, yay

[op12no2]

Re: 54th Amateur Series Division 6
I had a lot of fun in my first tournament on CCRL with Schooner. Congratulations to all the participants! The match was close and almost anybody could have won. Notable was Erik Madsen's MadChess that exceeded expectations and performed very well.

Dennis - apologies for missing your hello in chat - the window was up but I was absent.

[Graham Banks]

Thanks Graham. I missed it all cos I've been in sailing mode but it looks like the girl did good, yay

Blistering finish from Lozza to pip Tigran for second spot. The girl scrubbed up well indeed!

[Graham Banks]

Re: 54th Amateur Series Division 6
I had a lot of fun in my first tournament on CCRL with Schooner. Congratulations to all the participants! The match was close and almost anybody could have won. Notable was Erik Madsen's MadChess that exceeded expectations and performed very well.

It was nice having the odd chat with you.
Glad you enjoyed the games.