21st Amateur Series Division 5

[Graham Banks]

21ST AMATEUR SERIES (Division 5)

Intel Q6600 Quad Core
ChessGUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
HS-Large Remis book (limited to 12 moves)
40 moves in 32 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 32-bit 1CPU

This will be the last series for Sorgenkind unless a new version come out. The top engine will likely gain automatic promotion, but there will be no automatic relegation. The second top engine and the bottom engine (perhaps others also) will play grading matches to determine which division they will play in for the next series.

Standings after Round 36

23.5 - Glass 1.6
22.5 - Sorgenkind 0.4
22.0 - Ares 1.004
21.5 - Pawny 0.2 32-bit
19.0 - AliChess 4.21
17.0 - Ghost 2.0.1
17.0 - Butcher 1.60n1
16.5 - Cheese 1.3
15.0 - RattateChess 1.0 Nosferatu
15.0 - Sungorus 1.4 32-bit
14.5 - Waxman 2009
12.5 - Feuerstein 0.4.6.1


This tournament can be followed more closely from the following link, where games will be available for download after every two rounds:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... f=7&t=5227

[Graham Banks]

21ST AMATEUR SERIES (Division 5)

Intel Q6600 Quad Core
ChessGUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
HS-Large Remis book (limited to 12 moves)
40 moves in 32 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 32-bit 1CPU

This will be the last series for Sorgenkind unless a new version come out. The top engine will likely gain automatic promotion, but there will be no automatic relegation. The second top engine and the bottom engine (perhaps others also) will play grading matches to determine which division they will play in for the next series.

Standings after Round 42

29.0 - Glass 1.6
28.0 - Sorgenkind 0.4
25.0 - Pawny 0.2 32-bit
24.5 - Ares 1.004
21.0 - Cheese 1.3
20.5 - AliChess 4.21
19.5 - Ghost 2.0.1
19.5 - Butcher 1.60n1
17.5 - Sungorus 1.4 32-bit
17.0 - Waxman 2009
16.5 - RattateChess 1.0 Nosferatu
15.0 - Feuerstein 0.4.6.1


This tournament can be followed more closely from the following link, where games will be available for download after every two rounds:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... f=7&t=5227

[Graham Banks]

21ST AMATEUR SERIES (Division 5)

Intel Q6600 Quad Core
ChessGUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
HS-Large Remis book (limited to 12 moves)
40 moves in 32 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 32-bit 1CPU

This will be the last series for Sorgenkind unless a new version come out. The top engine will likely gain automatic promotion, but there will be no automatic relegation. The second top engine and the bottom engine (perhaps others also) will play grading matches to determine which division they will play in for the next series.

Final Standings

30.0 - Glass 1.6
29.0 - Sorgenkind 0.4
27.0 - Pawny 0.2 32-bit
26.0 - Ares 1.004
22.0 - Cheese 1.3
21.0 - AliChess 4.21
20.5 - Ghost 2.0.1
19.5 - Butcher 1.60n1
18.5 - Sungorus 1.4 32-bit
17.5 - Waxman 2009
17.0 - RattateChess 1.0 Nosferatu
16.0 - Feuerstein 0.4.6.1


The complete tournament pgn can be downloaded here:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=19559

[Edmund]

Great result, thanks for the tournament!

[Graham Banks]

Great result, thanks for the tournament!

Congratulations to yourself and Pawel.

[Mincho Georgiev]

Congrats!
Thanks Graham, I can't wait for the next series already!

[Graham Banks]

Congrats!
Thanks Graham, I can't wait for the next series already!

Thanks Mincho.
Pawny now faces NanoSzachy in a playoff match to determine which plays in Division 4 for the next series.

[Mincho Georgiev]

That's great! What I don't understand is how NanoSzachy 3.7 is 70 ELO pts stronger than 3.8. For that matter, I hope you are talking about ver. 3.8

[Graham Banks]

That's great! What I don't understand is how NanoSzachy 3.7 is 70 ELO pts stronger than 3.8. For that matter, I hope you are talking about ver. 3.8

I always use the latest public version, so that is currently NanoSzachy 3.8.
I will try to give NanoSzachy 3.7 some further games over time to better establish its strength, but there seems little doubt in my mind that it is stronger than NanoSzachy 3.8.

[PK]

Thanks for the tournament

As for nanoSzachy, its author thinks that 3.7 was somehow overrated, and 3.8 is very similar (slightly faster + some endgame stuff).