On-line engine blitz tournament November

[Joost Buijs]

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

Saturday, November 15, 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.

[Richard Allbert]

Thanks so much for hosting this, it was a real blast to be able to do this again.

Lots of strong programs out there!

[Joost Buijs]

The tournament was fun as usual!
rofChade won the tournament, this was more or less expected.
Arasan ended on the second place, and there were 7 engines with 5.5 points, this is too close to call.
Amazing is that Nightmare on a single core from the Intel N100 (6 Watt) processor did just as good as his big brother on the AMD 9960X Threadripper, talking about luck.

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:Tourney Players: Round 9 of 9 
:
:     Name              Rating Score Perfrm Upset  Results 
:     ----------------- ------ ----- ------ ------ ------- 
:  1 +rofChade          [2953]  6.5  [2934] [   0] +19w +14w =02b +11w =04b +10w =05b =06w =03b 
:  2 +ArasanX           [2883]  6.0  [2830] [  35] +17b =05w =01w =10b +03w =04w +11b =09b =07w 
:  3 +NightmareX        [2866]  5.5  [2778] [  43] =08w +19b =10w +07w -02b =05w =04b +12b =01w 
:  4 +PlentyChessRB     [2805]  5.5  [2719] [ 143] +09w =07w =08b +13b =01w =02b =03w =05w =06b 
:  5 +atomNightmare     [2679]  5.5  [2789] [ 513] +18w =02b =11w =14b +12w =03b =01w =04b =09w 
:  6 +Viper             [2636]  5.5  [2648] [ 317] +20w -10b =09w +08w =14b =07w +16b =01b =04w 
:  7 +Cheng             [2500]  5.5  [2678] [ 725] +22w =04b =14w -03b +13w =06b =10b +18w =02b 
:  8 +EveAnn            [2432]  5.5  [2616] [ 644] =03b +17w =04w -06b =16b =13w +20w =10b +15w
:  9 +Isa               [2353]  5.5  [2622] [ 943] -04b +22w =06b =16w +17b =14w +15b =02w =05b 
: 10 -WaspX             [2843]  5.0  [2740] [  31] +15w +06w =03b =02w =11b -01b =07w =08w =14b 
: 11 +Goldbar           [2809]  5.0  [2604] [  17] +13w +12w =05b -01b =10w =15b -02w =16b +21w 
: 12 +atomGoldbar       [2615]  5.0  [2560] [  85] +21w -11b =16w +19b -05b +17w =14b -03w +18b 
: 13 +Myrddin           [2370]  5.0  [2474] [ 369] -11b +21w +20b -04w -07b =08b +19w =14w +22b 
: 14 +Marvin            [2786]  4.5  [2578] [  28] +16w -01b =07b =05w =06w =09b =12w =13b =10w 
: 15 +Dirty             [2396]  4.5  [2352] [ 278] -10b +20w -18b +21w +22b =11w -09w +17b -08b 
: 16 +DogPC             [2260]  4.5  [2496] [ 703] -14b +18w =12b =09b =08w +20b -06w =11w =19b
: 17 +WaDuuttie         [2468]  4.0  [2283] [   0] -02w -08b +22b +18w -09w -12b +21b -15w +20b 
: 18 +jackychess        [2233]  4.0  [2327] [ 430] -05b -16b +15w -17b +19w +21w +22b -07b -12w 
: 19 +Knightx           [2500]  3.5  [2281] [   0] -01b -03w +21b -12w -18b +22w -13b +20w =16w 
: 20 +Barbarossa        [2107]  2.0  [2110] [   0] -06b -15b -13w +22w +21b -16w -08b -19b -17w 
: 21 +Vice              [2042]  1.0  [2065] [   0] -12b -13b -19w -15b -20w -18b -17w +22w -11b 
: 22 +Skiull            [1888]  0.0  [1929] [   0] -07b -09b -17w -20b -15w -19b -18w -21b -13w 
:
:     Average Rating    2519.3

I hope to see you all next time!

[Modern Times]

Amazing is that Nightmare on a single core from the Intel N100 (6 Watt) processor did just as good as his big brother on the AMD 9960X Threadripper, talking about luck.

I think the huge books is a bit of an equaliser there ! Very impressive.

To be honest I'd rather not see two Nightmares and two Goldbars there despite the big hardware difference, but it is your tournament. At one point they were needed to boost the numbers, but that generally isn't the case now.

[jdart]

Arasan played a nice pawn sacrifice against Nightmare. I was watching the game and thinking the position looked locked up and was headed for a draw, but appearances can be deceptive. f4! here opens things up and gives advantage to White:

[d]r7/4k3/1p3p2/pP2pPp1/PbPpN2p/3P1P1P/4RK2/8 w - -

The complete game:

[pgn]
[Event "ICS rated blitz game"]
[Site "nightmare-chess.nl 5000"]
[Date "2012.04.06"]
[Time "21:15:00"]
[Round "5"]
[White "ArasanX"]
[Black "NightmareX"]
[WhiteElo "2883"]
[BlackElo "2866"]
[TimeControl "5+1"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. g3 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bg2 c5 4. O-O e6 5. c4 d4 6. e3 Nc6 7. d3 Bd6
8. exd4 cxd4 9. Na3 O-O 10. Nc2 e5 11. b4 Re8 12. Re1 a6 13. Bg5 Bf5
14. Nh4 Bd7 15. Rb1 h6 16. Bxf6 Qxf6 17. a4 a5 18. b5 Nd8 19. Qf3 Rc8
20. Qxf6 gxf6 21. Re2 b6 22. Na1 Kf8 23. Nb3 Ne6 24. Nd2 Ng7 25. Bd5 Be7
26. Kg2 Bg4 27. Bf3 Bd7 28. Bd5 Bg4 29. f3 Bd7 30. Nb3 Bb4 31. Rd1 Ne6
32. h3 Ng7 33. Rf2 Bd6 34. Rdf1 Bf5 35. Be4 Bd7 36. g4 h5 37. Nf5 Nxf5
38. Bxf5 Bxf5 39. gxf5 Ke7 40. Kh1 h4 41. Re2 Rg8 42. Rg1 Rg5 43. Rxg5 fxg5
44. Nd2 Bb4 45. Ne4 Rg8 46. Kg2 f6 47. Kf2 Ra8 48. f4 gxf4 49. Kf3 Rh8
50. Rg2 Kf7 51. Rg6 Be7 52. c5 bxc5 53. Nd2 Rh5 54. Ke4 c4 55. Nxc4 f3
56. Nd2 f2 57. Rg2 Bd8 58. Rxf2 Rg5 59. Kd5 Rg1 60. Ne4 Rc1 61. Rb2 Bb6
62. Nd6+ Ke7 63. Nc4 Bd8 64. b6 e4 65. Kxe4 Rh1 66. Nxa5 Kd7 67. b7 Bc7
68. b8=Q Bxb8 69. Rxb8 Rxh3 70. Rb7+ Ke8 71. Nc6 Re3+ 72. Kxd4 Re2 73. a5 Ra2
74. Rh7 Kf8 75. Kd5 Ra4 76. Ke6 Kg8 77. Rf7 Rxa5 78. Nxa5 h3 79. Kxf6 h2
80. Nc6 h1=Q 81. Ne7+ Kh8 82. Ng6+ Kg8 83. Rg7+ {Black checkmated} 1-0
[/pgn]

[Modern Times]

Well done - NightmareX is not easy to win against.

[Joost Buijs]

Arasan played a nice pawn sacrifice against Nightmare. I was watching the game and thinking the position looked locked up and was headed for a draw, but appearances can be deceptive. f4! here opens things up and gives advantage to White:

I was watching this game too, Nightmare didn't expect the pawn sacrifice at all, after the sacrifice it took one or two more moves before Nightmare actually saw it's score dropping. Somehow Nightmare has difficulties with Arasan, two months ago Nightmare lost from Arasan too.

[Joost Buijs]

Amazing is that Nightmare on a single core from the Intel N100 (6 Watt) processor did just as good as his big brother on the AMD 9960X Threadripper, talking about luck.

I think the huge books is a bit of an equaliser there ! Very impressive.

To be honest I'd rather not see two Nightmares and two Goldbars there despite the big hardware difference, but it is your tournament. At one point they were needed to boost the numbers, but that generally isn't the case now.

In the past I added these two engines because there were not enough participants to run a Swiss tournament with 9 rounds. The chance that Nightmare draws atomNightmare is very big because it's the same engine (albeit 50 times slower), so it's disadvantageous for Nightmare too. Next time I will tell Lisebeth not to add the atom engines to the tourney.