69th Amateur Series Division 2

[Graham Banks]

69TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 2)

Intel i5 Quad
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
JDSelect2017cgb book
40 moves in 25 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 1CPU (64-bit where available)

The top engine will gain automatic promotion and the bottom engine will face automatic relegation. Any other changes of division will be at my discretion and may not necessarily involve playoff matches.

Final Standings

27.0 - Ethereal 9.65 64-bit
24.0 - Sting SF 9.9 64-bit
24.0 - Xiphos 0.2.2 64-bit
23.0 - Defenchess 1.1f 64-bit
22.0 - Bobcat 8.0 64-bit
21.5 - Arasan 20.5 64-bit
21.5 - Nemorino 4.0 64-bit
21.0 - Pedone 1.7 64-bit
21.0 - Rodent III 0.238 64-bit
21.0 - SmarThink 1.98 64-bit
20.5 - ChessBrainVB 3.66
17.5 - Vajolet2 2.5 64-bit


The complete tournament pgn (zipped) can be downloaded here:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=41851

[Graham Banks]

Congratulations Andrew. Ethereal is off to the heady heights of Division 1 in the next series.

Thanks to all who followed the live broadcast.

[AndrewGrant]

Thanks for running the games! Will be sure to tune in for the division 1 action in the coming weeks.

-- Andrew