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.
On-line engine blitz tourney October
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October
i need account with my Tornado engine on your server.Joost Buijs wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2024 4:30 pm 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.
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October
many thanks
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is it starting today at 8 a clock evening in europa?
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October
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 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2024 4:30 pm 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)
90% of coding is debugging, the other 10% is writing bugs.
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October
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.Rebel wrote: ↑Sat Oct 12, 2024 8:43 pmI 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 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2024 4:30 pm 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)
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October
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
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
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October
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.
I hope to see you all next time!
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
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: 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
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October
many many thanks for this blitz tournament, i enjoy it very well even i had problem in the first 2 rounds, it was ok.