Intel i5 Quad
ChessGUI
256mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
Xmas2640-12.cgb book
40 moves in 25 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 64-bit 1CPU (where available)
The top engine will gain automatic promotion and the bottom engine will gain automatic relegation. Any other changes of division will be at my discretion and may not necessarily involve playoff matches.
I have a feeling that Rodent overperformed here a bit. Generally I enjoyed watching its middlegame, but became anxious whenever it entered the endgame, as it has often displayed unreasonably high scores. Twice it happened due to a bug (one opposite bishop endgame with many pawns, the other time the absence of scaling down in KRm vs KRm, where it showed +0.5 or so), but there were far too many endgames evaluated as over 1 pawn advantage that petered out in a draw. Perhaps it is just impossible to have both speculative midgame eval and accurate endgame eval.
PK wrote:I have a feeling that Rodent overperformed here a bit. Generally I enjoyed watching its middlegame, but became anxious whenever it entered the endgame, as it has often displayed unreasonably high scores. Twice it happened due to a bug (one opposite bishop endgame with many pawns, the other time the absence of scaling down in KRm vs KRm, where it showed +0.5 or so), but there were far too many endgames evaluated as over 1 pawn advantage that petered out in a draw. Perhaps it is just impossible to have both speculative midgame eval and accurate endgame eval.
Congratulations on a well deserved victory.
Rodent's rating in our 40/40 list suggests that this wasn't as much of a surprise as you think.
