Joost Buijs wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 10:22 pm
Belfish and Seer ended on top, Arasan came in second, Wasp got third place.
Zahak and CSTal both lost games because their engines crashed.
Nightmare lost from Zahak with a bad book variation, straight out of book his queen was trapped. Nightmare is getting a bit rusty, I haven't been working on it for more than a year. Standing still means going backwards.
Neat! Am I correct in understanding someone participated in this tourney with my engine (Seer) and if so who? and what is the meaning of the "RB" appended to the name? I've been considering participating with Seer in one of these tournaments myself out of curiosity so I'm quite happy to see someone beat me to it :)
'RB' engines are always presented by Ray Banks since 2009/12
In case you don't know the collected history of those tournaments done by me (not updated since end of 2019 though):
Joost Buijs wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 10:22 pm
Belfish and Seer ended on top, Arasan came in second, Wasp got third place.
Zahak and CSTal both lost games because their engines crashed.
Nightmare lost from Zahak with a bad book variation, straight out of book his queen was trapped. Nightmare is getting a bit rusty, I haven't been working on it for more than a year. Standing still means going backwards.
Neat! Am I correct in understanding someone participated in this tourney with my engine (Seer) and if so who? and what is the meaning of the "RB" appended to the name? I've been considering participating with Seer in one of these tournaments myself out of curiosity so I'm quite happy to see someone beat me to it
'RB' engines are always presented by Ray Banks since 2009/12
In case you don't know the collected history of those tournaments done by me (not updated since end of 2019 though):
It always depends who is competing, and there is always a bit of luck too, but I was expecting maybe a 5th place finish. To come first equal with Belfish is an outstanding result. The 5900X was a bit of an underdog sometimes against Threadrippers with many more cores. The book I used did a pretty good job on the whole. That I find is the biggest challenge with these tournaments. I'm a chess960 man myself, and books are a necessary evil as far as I'm concerned, but at the same time being a critical element of how an engine performs in tournaments such as this.
Modern Times wrote: ↑Sun Jan 16, 2022 3:57 am
It was an excellent tournament for Seer
It always depends who is competing, and there is always a bit of luck too, but I was expecting maybe a 5th place finish. To come first equal with Belfish is an outstanding result. The 5900X was a bit of an underdog sometimes against Threadrippers with many more cores. The book I used did a pretty good job on the whole. That I find is the biggest challenge with these tournaments. I'm a chess960 man myself, and books are a necessary evil as far as I'm concerned, but at the same time being a critical element of how an engine performs in tournaments such as this.
I usually set CoronaVirusChess book depth to anything between 12 and 16 half moves, then out of book. With Chess System Tal yesterday, the book was completely switched off and the engine left to play its own moves. It was astonishing to watch just how deep some opponent engines were playing, 20, 30
Half moves, I didn’t count. Disappointing, this isn’t really an engine test, it’s a test between book constructors. Books are needed for some variance in engine matches, but there’s a limit, surely? Ten half moves, then engine takes over, I would propose.
