On-line engine blitz tourney December

[Joost Buijs]

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

Saturday, December 21, 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.

[flok]

Hopefully no participant is allergic for or scared of dogs!

[Modern Times]

Assuming that the author himself does not enter, or has any objections, HeimdallRB will participate with v1.2.2 running 10 threads on an Intel i9 10900.

[nocturn9x]

No objections from me! Excited to see how Heimdall performs! Any reason not to use the release binaries though? They're here: https://git.nocturn9x.space/nocturn9x/h ... /tag/1.2.2

You can also build a native binary by just running `make`, if you prefer. That might or might not be slightly better than the `-modern` executables

You haven't done any modifications to the engine though, have you? Just cuz the HeimdallRB name is peculiar, that's all

[Modern Times]

No objections from me! Excited to see how Heimdall performs! Any reason not to use the release binaries though? They're here: https://git.nocturn9x.space/nocturn9x/h ... /tag/1.2.2

That is exactly what I'm using.

RB is simply to indicate that it is an operator running the engine, not the author himself.

[nocturn9x]

Gotcha. All good then!

[Modern Times]

Yeah, it is just the login name, not the engine name.

Tell the children on Discord to put their toys back in their prams and stop jumping to ridiculous conclusions

[nocturn9x]

Out of curiosity, is there a way to see the engines as they play? I understand that connecting is just for playing engines, correct? Is there some sort of web interface or TLCV-like program I can use to watch the games live?

[Modern Times]

You just follow or observe an engine, but not sure of the specifics.

[hgm]

Out of curiosity, is there a way to see the engines as they play? I understand that connecting is just for playing engines, correct? Is there some sort of web interface or TLCV-like program I can use to watch the games live?

Anyone can connect to the server using WinBoard (or XBoard, for Linux/OSX). The required command is:

winboard -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl

You don't even need an account for that; you can login as guest, and I think you can still watch the tourney games in that capacity. You would have to know how to use the server, though.