Winter is Coming (Amoeba, Beef, Combusk, Demoli, Fab, Halogen, Koivi, Lc0, Marvin, Minic, Nemori, Orion, Pedone, Winter)

[Angle]

I started a new tournament yesterday.

Intel i7-8750H-Quad, Windows 10.
Arena 3.5.1, TC 20s+3s, Ponder off.
2 cycles, 46 rounds,
All engines except Orion use 4 CPU

Minic and Nemorino play without NNUE (they are way too strong for this tournament with NNUE).
Marvin 4.0.0 plays with MultiPV = 3 (for unknown reasons it is unstable with MultiPV = 1 or 2).

After round 8:



A great start by new versions of Winter, Combusken, Koivisto, and FabChess
Halogen is trying his best in a very tough company

[OliverBr]

Ah dun wannit

[Angle]

Ah dun wannit

?

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hello,

that's a really nice tournament configuration.
My congratulation!

I will follow ...

THANK You!

Best
Frank

[Angle]

Hello,

that's a really nice tournament configuration.
My congratulation!

I will follow ...

THANK You!

Thank you for your kind words! I will update results every 7-8 tours.

May be it would be interesting for you if I include Wasp to this tourney (say versions 4.00 and 3.75)? I believe the level of Wasp is optimal for this setup.

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi,

no, no ... not for us.
Maybe for the next tourney you organice?
... if you like with the current Wasp 4.00.

Nice engines and different versions is really a nice idea!!
If I can give send a wish ...
put the Beef 0.22 version if you have inside.
So we can looking for different here too but again ... all is fine for me.

Best
Frank

[Angle]

Hi,

no, no ... not for us.
Maybe for the next tourney you organice?
... if you like with the current Wasp 4.00.

Nice engines and different versions is really a nice idea!!
If I can give send a wish ...
put the Beef 0.22 version if you have inside.
So we can looking for different here too but again ... all is fine for me.

For today Beef versions 0.2, 0.2.2, and 0.3.6 are nearly equal in my tests. I will add 0.2 and 0.2.2 after the end of the initial tourney.

[OliverBr]

Ah dun wannit

?

Someone, who is citing Game of Thrones, is supposed to know it.

[fabianVDW]

Thanks for this tournament! 'Fab is looking strong so far...

[Angle]

Thanks for this tournament! 'Fab is looking strong so far...

Yeah, the only one who defeated Winter 0.9. It's huge!

[pgn][Event "Winter is Coming"]
[Site "LAPTOP-AOLJ2Q55"]
[Date "2020.11.15"]
[Round "1"]
[White "FabChess 1.16"]
[Black "Winter 0.9"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "3100"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Time "01:45:29"]
[Variation "Classical, Pirc, 6.Nf3 Bxc5"]
[WhiteElo "3000"]
[TimeControl "20+3"]
[Termination "normal"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 c5 5. dxc5 Bxc5 6. Nf3 O-O 7. Bf4 Nc6
8. a3 d6 9. e3 a5 10. Rd1 Qe7 11. h3 b6 12. Bd3 h6 13. Bg3 Nh5 14. Bh2 Bb7
15. O-O f5 16. Be2 Nf6 17. Nd2 Ne5 18. Nb3 Nf7 19. Nxc5 bxc5 20. f3 Ra6 21.
b3 Nh5 22. Nb5 Rd8 23. Kh1 g6 24. Bd3 e5 25. Qc3 Qh4 26. Kg1 Ng5 27. Qd2 e4
28. fxe4 fxe4 29. Bc2 Nf3+ 30. gxf3 exf3 31. e4 Qxh3 32. Qf2 Rf8 33. Nxd6
g5 34. Be5 Qg4+ 35. Kh1 Qe6 36. Bh2 Rb6 37. Nxb7 Rxb7 38. Bd6 a4 39. bxa4
Rb2 40. Qh2 Rxc2 41. Qxc2 Rf6 42. Rf2 g4 43. Qb1 Kg7 44. Qb8 Qxc4 45. Be5
Kg6 46. a5 Qe6 47. a6 Kh7 48. a7 g3 {Black resigns} 1-0
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