On-line engine blitz tourney April

[Henk]

Who knows the best engine ended last place running on a 386 of the nineties.

[Modern Times]

The administrator of the tournament should make it required to add all information to your winboard "finger <name>" information.
So that the rankings can be split into authors of original work vs the people who just test hardware and open source software in a tournament setting.
But yes - having 7man vs 5man egtb and CPU cores is a difference in the endgame espc. when time is low. (IE pay to win)

IMO this 5 lines should be made mandatory by Lisebeth at ICC to participate
Engine Name + Version
CPU + GPU + RAM
Hash Size / Threads
EGTB no/5/6/7
Special Settings

And afterwards the ranking is author engines and open source engines seperately.
This will helpful because first of all the ranking is fair - and second of all everyone can see how much elo difference the settings make when running open source engines. And third finally you can see exactly what you play against and its not just a blackbox player with a name.

I think you are taking this far too seriously.

[nionita]

Am I the only one who comes to this online blitz just for fun?
I think at least this was the original intent of this event.
Nicu