I plan of running this champ this coming 12-27 to 12-29. You may send your new engine or updated engine to me or show me the link to download.
Last year's Champion was Stockfish Zh
http://ccva.challonge.com/1st_ccva_comp_champ_2016
2017 format:
Phase 1: Candidates tour
Phase 2: Champ tour
All engines except Stockfish zh will play in the candidates. The winner in the candidates will challenge Stockfish zh to a 12 game match at TC 15m + 30s.
The candidates will be an 8-RR tour at TC 5m+3s
Each engine is only allowed 1 core, no book, and no learning. I will be using cutechess gui without adjudications and will use pgn start opening set at random, each opening will be played twice.
Possible Candidates' players:
Imortal
TJchess
Sunsetter
CrazyWa
Sjaak II
Sjeng
Pulsar
NebiyuAlien
KKFChess
TSCP zh
PyChess
2nd Crazyhouse Computer Championships 2017
Moderators: hgm, Rebel, chrisw
-
- Posts: 4840
- Joined: Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:15 pm
- Location: Philippines
-
- Posts: 496
- Joined: Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:45 pm
- Location: Portland, OR
Re: 2nd Crazyhouse Computer Championships 2017
Send a special invitation to DeepMind, they might surprise us all!
-
- Posts: 546
- Joined: Sat Aug 17, 2013 12:36 am
Re: 2nd Crazyhouse Computer Championships 2017
It would be nice. I imagine beating SF 95-5 in Zh might shut some people up. Then again hopeless trolls are just that.
-
- Posts: 50
- Joined: Mon Dec 12, 2016 2:14 pm
Re: 2nd Crazyhouse Computer Championships 2017
It will be interesting to see whether CrazyWa can challenge the top 3 seeds of the candidates. Do you have a new version of Imortal for the tournament?
For the final, I would suggest to use the last release https://github.com/niklasf/Stockfish/re ... net-071017 of Stockfish that is used for about two months now on lichess, so it should be stable. I will check with Daniel Dugovic whether he agrees.
For the final, I would suggest to use the last release https://github.com/niklasf/Stockfish/re ... net-071017 of Stockfish that is used for about two months now on lichess, so it should be stable. I will check with Daniel Dugovic whether he agrees.
AlphaZero Crazyhouse would be awesome. It would probably beat Stockfish by quite a margin considering the amount of effort that has been put into development of chess and shogi engines compared to crazyhouse.IanO wrote:Send a special invitation to DeepMind, they might surprise us all!
-
- Posts: 5228
- Joined: Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:40 am
- Full name: Vincent Lejeune
Re: 2nd Crazyhouse Computer Championships 2017
Yeah, that would be great to get some test games at vert high level !!IanO wrote:Send a special invitation to DeepMind, they might surprise us all!
ZH opening books still so weak now !
-
- Posts: 27870
- Joined: Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:06 am
- Location: Amsterdam
- Full name: H G Muller
Re: 2nd Crazyhouse Computer Championships 2017
It won't. I have not done any work on it whatsoever, the past year. And if I would find some time to work on it, it would be used for implementing Kyoto Shogi, not for improving Crazyhouse.Fabian Fichter wrote:It will be interesting to see whether CrazyWa can challenge the top 3 seeds of the candidates.
-
- Posts: 4185
- Joined: Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:34 am
- Location: Ethiopia
Re: 2nd Crazyhouse Computer Championships 2017
NebiyuAlien can use MCTS for crazyhouse in this tournament. All I need to beat Stockfish is alpha's awesome NN for move selection and evaluation...AlphaZero Crazyhouse would be awesome. It would probably beat Stockfish by quite a margin considering the amount of effort that has been put into development of chess and shogi engines compared to crazyhouse.
-
- Posts: 4840
- Joined: Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:15 pm
- Location: Philippines
Re: 2nd Crazyhouse Computer Championships 2017
I have.Fabian Fichter wrote:Do you have a new version of Imortal for the tournament?
That is good stable engine is important to avoid stopping the running tour unnecessarily.For the final, I would suggest to use the last release https://github.com/niklasf/Stockfish/re ... net-071017 of Stockfish that is used for about two months now on lichess, so it should be stable. I will check with Daniel Dugovic whether he agrees.
-
- Posts: 4840
- Joined: Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:15 pm
- Location: Philippines
Re: 2nd Crazyhouse Computer Championships 2017
they already tried shogi, but maybe zh later.IanO wrote:Send a special invitation to DeepMind, they might surprise us all!
-
- Posts: 27
- Joined: Sat Dec 03, 2016 2:20 pm
Re: 2nd Crazyhouse Computer Championships 2017
Best of luck to all participants! Thanks again to Ferdinand Mosca for running these excellent events!
(Fabian did check with me and I agree with that release. Presumably we will use setting "Move Overhead=1000" which I believe Stockfish used in TCEC.)
Incidentally, Lichess is releasing a broadcast (beta) site where viewers can discuss live tournament games! Were it feasible (for the live PGN to be hosted on any web server so Lichess could poll & broadcast the games) I (~2000) and probably others would be glad to livestream commentary outside of working hours.
(Fabian did check with me and I agree with that release. Presumably we will use setting "Move Overhead=1000" which I believe Stockfish used in TCEC.)
Incidentally, Lichess is releasing a broadcast (beta) site where viewers can discuss live tournament games! Were it feasible (for the live PGN to be hosted on any web server so Lichess could poll & broadcast the games) I (~2000) and probably others would be glad to livestream commentary outside of working hours.
Fabian Fichter wrote:It will be interesting to see whether CrazyWa can challenge the top 3 seeds of the candidates. Do you have a new version of Imortal for the tournament?
For the final, I would suggest to use the last release https://github.com/niklasf/Stockfish/re ... net-071017 of Stockfish that is used for about two months now on lichess, so it should be stable. I will check with Daniel Dugovic whether he agrees.