On-line blitz tourney May (and Chess960 interest poll)

[Joost Buijs]

The on-line engine blitz tourney for May will take place:

Saturday May 19, 3pm EST (21:00 CET)

To connect, use the command

winboard -zp -ics -icshost 80.100.28.169 -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz

Harm Geert,

I would like to join the tourney, but at the moment your server seems to be down.
Maybe your DHCP server assigned a wrong IP-address like it did in the past?

[hgm]

OK, the server is up again.

It had really crashed. Like the past 6 times this happened since January, the crash occured within 1 minute from a guest logging in as CalmChess appeared...

[Sven]

OK, the server is up again.

It had really crashed. Like the past 6 times this happened since January, the crash occured within 1 minute from a guest logging in as CalmChess appeared...

Who or what is CalmChess, is it a new engine?

Sven

[hgm]

No idea. But whenever he logs on, the ICS seems to terminate immediately, without error message.

[hgm]

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:Tourney Players: Round 8 of 9 
:
:     Name              Rating Score Perfrm Upset  Results 
:     ----------------- ------ ----- ------ ------ ------- 
:  1 +Nightmare         [1996]  6.0  [2130] [   0] +06b +03w =02w =05b +04w +07w +10b 
:  2 +WaDuuttie         [1972]  6.0  [2092] [  12] +08w +05w =01b +03w +07b +06b =04w 
:  3 +Texel             [1931]  4.5  [1811] [   0] +09w -01b +04w -02b +10b =05w +08w 
:  4 +Goldbar           [1900]  4.0  [1789] [  36] =07w +06w -03b +08w -01b +09w =02b 
:  5 +Baron             [1875]  4.0  [1780] [  88] +10w -02b +07w =01w +09b =03b -06w 
:  6 +Tornado           [1827]  4.0  [1745] [  48] -01w -04b +10b +09w +08b -02w +05b 
:  7 +Troy              [   0]  3.5  [1678] [3678] =04b +08w -05b +10w -02w -01b +09b 
:  8 +Spartacus         [1445]  2.0  [1498] [   0] -02b -07b +09w -04b -06w +10w -03b 
:  9 +microMax          [1283]  1.0  [1375] [   0] -03b +10w -08b -06b -05w -04b -07w
: 10 +_BYE_             [   0]  0.0  [1318] [   0] -05b -09b -06w -07b -03w -08b -01w 
:
:     Average Rating    1778.6 
:

We intended to play a round-robin, but mamer declared the tourney ended after 7 rounds. I will analyze why it did that. It seems it painted itself in a corner for pairings, as nr 3, 6, and 7 still all have to play each other, which cannot be done in the two remaining rounds...