On-line engine blitz tourney July

[Joost Buijs]

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

Saturday, July 5, 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 are not supported.

[Joost Buijs]

RofChade was a bit too strong and managed to win 6 games for a total of 7.5 points. Nightmare didn't do bad either with 6 points.
It's amazing that Nightmare single threaded on an atom processor managed to get 6 points too.
Wasp, Goldbar, Marvin and atomGoldbar ended on a shared 3th place with 5.5 points.
Lunar (a brand new engine) did pretty good too with 5 points and a performance rating of 2693.

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:Tourney Players: Round 9 of 9 
:
:     Name              Rating Score Perfrm Upset  Results 
:     ----------------- ------ ----- ------ ------ ------- 
:  1 +rofChade          [2950]  7.5  [3006] [   0] +07b +06w =05b +02w =03b +09w +04w +11b =08w 
:  2 +NightmareX        [2891]  6.0  [2835] [   0] +10w +03w =09b -01b =05w +07b =06w =04b +11w 
:  3 +atomNightmare     [2684]  6.0  [2797] [ 312] +15w -02b +11w +14b =01w =05b =08w +09w =07b 
:  4 +WaspX             [2866]  5.5  [2762] [  26] +11w =09w =08b =05w =06b +10w -01b =02w +15b 
:  5 +Goldbar           [2833]  5.5  [2763] [ 103] +13w +14b =01w =04b =02b =03w =09b =06w =10b 
:  6 -Marvin            [2791]  5.5  [2724] [ 159] +16b -01b +10w =07b =04w =08w =02b =05b +12w 
:  7 +atomGoldbar       [2637]  5.5  [2647] [ 228] -01w +16w +13b =06w =08b -02w +10b +12b =03w 
:  8 +ArasanX           [2894]  5.0  [2651] [  28] -14w +13b =04w =09b =07w =06b =03b +15w =01b
:  9 +Lunar             [2652]  5.0  [2693] [ 437] +12w =04b =02w =08w +14b -01b =05w -03b +16w 
: 10 +TheBaron          [2496]  4.5  [2498] [ 168] -02b +15w -06b +12w +16w -04b -07w +13b =05w 
: 11 +Arminius          [2412]  4.5  [2491] [ 154] -04b +12w -03b =13w +15b +14w +16b -01w -02b 
: 12 +gideon            [1998]  3.5  [2358] [ 955] -09b -11b +16w -10b =13w +15w +14b -07w -06b 
: 13 +rpiArminius       [2172]  3.0  [2325] [ 514] -05b -08w -07w =11b =12b +16w -15b -10w +14b 
: 14 -Tornado           [2566]  2.0  [2215] [ 328] +08b -05w +15b -03w -09w -11b -12w -16b -13w 
: 15 +feligres          [2141]  2.0  [2249] [  45] -03b -10b -14w +16b -11w -12b +13w -08b -04w 
: 16 +atomFloyd         [2155]  1.0  [2118] [ 411] -06w -07b -12b -15w -10b -13b -11w +14w -09b
fics% 

:     Average Rating    2571.1

I hope to see you all next time.

[Lunar]

[...]
Lunar (a brand new engine) did pretty good too with 5 points and a performance rating of 2693.
[...]

Yeah, got some nice draws against some of the higher finishers, but that loss against Atom Nightmare was kind of dissapointing, especially since "full fat" nightmare was one of the engines I managed to draw, and in pre-game testing I was able to fairly consistently draw Atom Nightmare. My result against RofChade wasn't unexpected, but I got -2 out of book... Not sure what happened there, but I doubt it cost me many points

[jdart]

Arasan had a debug tracing flag on in the build, which hurt its performance. And lost the first game when it rejected a move from ICC as illegal: not sure what happened there.

[mar]

sadly the tourney was announced here 2 days before it took place; not everyone follows talkchess on a daily basis
a week in advance would be nicer

[flok]

sadly the tourney was announced here 2 days before it took place; not everyone follows talkchess on a daily basis
a week in advance would be nicer

There's a mailing-service: if you give Joost your e-mail address, he'll send you a notification.

[Daniel Anulliero]

sadly the tourney was announced here 2 days before it took place; not everyone follows talkchess on a daily basis
a week in advance would be nicer

Agree

[Joost Buijs]

Usually I announce the tournament on Wednesday, 3 days before the tournament starts, but the forum was slow like hell so I decided to try it next morning.

Since a year or so the announcement is also sent by email, I have the email addresses of virtually all accounts registered on the server except the one from Daniel 'Isa'.

As far as I know Martin 'Cheng' doesn't have an account on the server, probably there was an account for 'Cheng' on the old server ran by HGM.

In the future I will announce the tournament a few days earlier, no problem.

[Daniel Anulliero]

Usually I announce the tournament on Wednesday, 3 days before the tournament starts, but the forum was slow like hell so I decided to try it next morning.

Since a year or so the announcement is also sent by email, I have the email addresses of virtually all accounts registered on the server except the one from Daniel 'Isa'.

As far as I know Martin 'Cheng' doesn't have an account on the server, probably there was an account for 'Cheng' on the old server ran by HGM.

In the future I will announce the tournament a few days earlier, no problem.

Cool
Thanks
And send my mail by pm