On-line engine blitz tourney October

[Joost Buijs]

The monthly online engine blitz tournament for October will take place on:

Saturday, October 12, 2:00 PM EST (Boston time) 20:00 CET (Amsterdam time)

To connect, use the following command:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz -keepAlive 30
(For UCI engines, add -fUCI)

If you don’t have an account, please submit a request to admin@nightmare-chess.nl.

Our tournament manager will be Eendje (Lisebeth @ ICC).

The format will be 9 rounds, Swiss system, 5/1 time control.

Lisebeth prefers to start the tournament on the hour, so please log in 15 minutes early. Late entries will not be accommodated.

[Engin]

The monthly online engine blitz tournament for October will take place on:

Saturday, October 12, 2:00 PM EST (Boston time) 20:00 CET (Amsterdam time)

To connect, use the following command:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz -keepAlive 30
(For UCI engines, add -fUCI)

If you don’t have an account, please submit a request to admin@nightmare-chess.nl.

Our tournament manager will be Eendje (Lisebeth @ ICC).

The format will be 9 rounds, Swiss system, 5/1 time control.

Lisebeth prefers to start the tournament on the hour, so please log in 15 minutes early. Late entries will not be accommodated.

i need account with my Tornado engine on your server.

[Joost Buijs]

i need account with my Tornado engine on your server.

Done, I sent you an email.

[Engin]

i need account with my Tornado engine on your server.

Done, I sent you an email.

many thanks

[Engin]

is it starting today at 8 a clock evening in europa?

[Rebel]

The monthly online engine blitz tournament for October will take place on:

Saturday, October 12, 2:00 PM EST (Boston time) 20:00 CET (Amsterdam time)

To connect, use the following command:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz -keepAlive 30
(For UCI engines, add -fUCI)

I wonder how to start your engine with a comment line parameter after the executable name, I could not optimize the number of threads because of that.

[Joost Buijs]

The monthly online engine blitz tournament for October will take place on:

Saturday, October 12, 2:00 PM EST (Boston time) 20:00 CET (Amsterdam time)

To connect, use the following command:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz -keepAlive 30
(For UCI engines, add -fUCI)

I wonder how to start your engine with a comment line parameter after the executable name, I could not optimize the number of threads because of that.

A good question, probably you have to add quotes, but I'm not sure, the only one who knows is probably HGM, the maintainer of Winboard.

[Modern Times]

The PolyGlot file can contain the threads, and all the usual UCI parameters, assuming you are running as UCI.

e.g.

[PolyGlot]
EngineCommand=stockfish_20073110_x64_bmi2.exe
EngineDir=C:\WinBoard\Stockfish_HCE
[Engine]
Threads=4
Hash=4096
Move Overhead=600
SyzygyPath=C:\Syzygy5
Ponder=True

[Joost Buijs]

The tourney finished without problems, only Tornado had some issues with pondering.

Belfish, LczTinker and Rebel ended on top with 7 points, Arasan is runner up with 6.5 points, Nightmare third with 6 points.

Skipper managed to win from Sargon, this is not bad because Sargon was one of the best programs in the late seventies, and now it is running on a 1000 times faster CPU.

Because I was mainly busy with other games like Draughts and Othello Nightmare hasn't been changed since 2019, it's still doing reasonably well but I have the feeling that there are many things that could be improved.

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:     Name              Rating Score Perfrm Upset  Results 
:     ----------------- ------ ----- ------ ------ ------- 
:  1 +BelFish           [2981]  7.0  [2926] [   0] +19w +11w =05b =02w +07b =04w +09b =03w +10b 
:  2 -LczTinker         [2970]  7.0  [2974] [   5] +14b +12w +06w =01b =03w =05w =04b +11b +09w 
:  3 +Rebel             [2730]  7.0  [2948] [ 590] +16w +19b =04w +12w =02b =09w +05b =01b +06w 
:  4 -ArasanX           [2898]  6.5  [2919] [  77] +20w +18w =03b +09w =05b =01b =02w =06b +11w 
:  5 +NightmareX        [2888]  6.0  [2780] [  92] +08w +07b =01w =06b =04w =02b -03w +19w +14b 
:  6 +Goldbar           [2795]  5.5  [2718] [  97] +15w +13w -02b =05w +12b =11w +08b =04w -03b 
:  7 +ZappaRB           [2522]  5.5  [2512] [   0] +23b -05w +22b +10w -01w +14b -11w =08w +17b 
:  8 +Tornado           [2251]  5.5  [2439] [ 509] -05b -23w +26b +22w +21b +18w -06w =07b +19w
:  9 -Marvin            [2807]  5.0  [2691] [   0] +21w +10w =11b -04b +18w =03b -01w +20w -02b 
: 10 -Arminius          [2498]  5.0  [2508] [ 279] +26w -09b +23w -07b =11b =19w +18b +12b -01w 
: 11 +atomNightmare     [2683]  4.5  [2664] [ 118] +22w -01b =09w +14b =10w =06b +07b -02w -04b 
: 12 +atomGoldbar       [2650]  4.5  [2464] [   0] +17w -02b +21w -03b -06w +15b =19b -10w +20b 
: 13 -Tinker            [2362]  4.5  [2215] [   0] +25w -06b -14w -15b +22b =16w -20b +21w +24b 
: 14 +Myrddin           [2338]  4.5  [2503] [ 219] -02w =17b +13b -11w +20b -07w +16b +18w -05w 
: 15 +Nameless          [2231]  4.5  [2250] [ 131] -06b +25w -18b +13w -19b -12w =22b +24w +26w 
: 16 +rpiArminius       [2204]  4.5  [2148] [  79] -03b -22w +25b -19b +17w =13b -14w +26b +23w
: 17 +Isa               [2080]  4.5  [2204] [ 292] -12b =14w -20b +24w -16b +21w +25b +23w -07w 
: 18 +WaDuuttie         [2533]  4.0  [2286] [   0] +24w -04b +15w +20w -09b -08b -10w -14b +25b 
: 19 +Ares              [2343]  4.0  [2449] [ 230] -01b -03w +24b +16w +15w =10b =12w -05b -08b 
: 20 +Viper             [2288]  4.0  [2356] [  74] -04b +24w +17w -18b -14w +23b +13w -09b -12w 
: 21 +atomFloyd         [2243]  4.0  [2177] [   0] -09b +26w -12b +23b -08w -17b +24w -13b +22w 
: 22 -Barbarossa        [2170]  3.5  [2120] [  64] -11b +16b -07w -08b -13w +26b =15w +25w -21b 
: 23 +Skiull            [1926]  3.0  [2030] [ 325] -07w +08b -10b -21w +25b -20w +26w -17b -16b 
: 24 -Abbess            [2016]  2.0  [1940] [   0] -18b -20b -19w -17b +26w +25w -21b -15b -13w
: 25 -Skipper           [1654]  1.0  [1828] [  79] -13b -15b -16w +26b -23w -24b -17w -22b -18w 
: 26 +atomSargon        [1733]  0.0  [1732] [   0] -10b -21b -08w -25w -24b -22w -23b -16w -15b 
:
:     Average Rating    2415.2 

I hope to see you all next time!

[Engin]

many many thanks for this blitz tournament, i enjoy it very well even i had problem in the first 2 rounds, it was ok.