On-line engine blitz tourney March

[Joost Buijs]

The monthly on-line engine blitz tournament for March will take place on:

Saturday, March 21, 3:00 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. (or 11 rounds 4/1, see below)

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

PS.

Following the server crashes from the past two tournaments, I fixed a number of bugs and adjusted things that looked suspicious.
Several in-house tournaments of 11 and 12 rounds with a maximum of 16 participants then ran flawlessly, so hopefully the crashes are now a thing of the past.

This Saturday, we want to play a test tournament of 11 rounds with a time control of 4/1 (provided there are enough participants).
If the server does crash again, it will be very difficult to determine which combination of factors is causing the problem, let's hope that this doesn't happen again.