Grand Blitz Tournament - Predict the Top 6 Engines!

[swami]

Well, it's been stated in the first page itself that engines with MP capability get the benefit of 2 CPU.
Uri once made his predictions thinking that it was all 1 cpu tournament and suddenly in his next pm changed the order saying that he had read up the message in the first page that engines with mp capability get the benefit of 2 cpus

[Tony Thomas]

Argh..I forgot to consider the fact that The King is using 2 CPU's...I am such a dolt..

Yeah I also forgot that some engines were using 2CPUs and others only 1CPU.
Oh well.

I remembered all the others, may be I underestimated The King when doing the predictions as it is rated a lot lower than the engiens that I picked. I cannot recall the exact reasons to why I picked most other engines ahead of it. Even with perfect scaling, I doubt that king could have achieved such a good rating..May be swami is on to something with his new personality. Graham, I think me and you picked the same engines..so you wont be alone in going through bottles of ibuprofen and Naproxen to get rid of the excruciating pain of losing in GBT. To console each other, we can go street racing in our Honda's.

[Graham Banks]

I remembered all the others, may be I underestimated The King when doing the predictions as it is rated a lot lower than the engiens that I picked. I cannot recall the exact reasons to why I picked most other engines ahead of it. Even with perfect scaling, I doubt that king could have achieved such a good rating..May be swami is on to something with his new personality. Graham, I think me and you picked the same engines..so you wont be alone in going through bottles of ibuprofen and Naproxen to get rid of the excruciating pain of losing in GBT. To console each other, we can go street racing in our Honda's.

Chessmaster 11 is noticeably stronger with more than 1CPU.
http://www.kirill-kryukov.com/chess/dis ... f=7&t=3054
May as well go race in tin cans. They might be more sturdy than Hondas!

[swami]

Argh..I forgot to consider the fact that The King is using 2 CPU's...I am such a dolt..

Yeah I also forgot that some engines were using 2CPUs and others only 1CPU.
Oh well.

I remembered all the others, may be I underestimated The King when doing the predictions as it is rated a lot lower than the engiens that I picked. I cannot recall the exact reasons to why I picked most other engines ahead of it. Even with perfect scaling, I doubt that king could have achieved such a good rating..May be swami is on to something with his new personality. Graham, I think me and you picked the same engines..so you wont be alone in going through bottles of ibuprofen and Naproxen to get rid of the excruciating pain of losing in GBT. To console each other, we can go street racing in our Honda's.

I had known that it wouldn't be such a good idea to include my chessmater personality especially when it finishes anywhere in the top 3 so far, immediately for whatever reason It'd turn out to be suspicious. Like you guys, I also highly underestimated CM Trail Blazer thinking it would would finish in 7th or 8th even with 2 CPU's but to my surprise it stood up in 2nd placings so far.

To be absolutely honest, I was never "on to something", I could make the games available. I refused to particpate in any of the prediction contests knowing that it wouldn't be a good idea for a tourney creator to make predictions beforehand. As for including my CM personality I was sure that it would end in 7th or 8th and I thought "what the heck" and went on to include it and I was also interested in seeing how it does in such a tourney and hence this...

[Tony Thomas]

Chessmaster 11 is noticeably stronger with more than 1CPU.
http://www.kirill-kryukov.com/chess/dis ... f=7&t=3054
May as well go race in tin cans. They might be more sturdy than Hondas!

One souped up tin can rolling up towards your house..20 inch rims (in dog years) and all..

Total weight - 4 oz
Total horse power - 16 HP
0-60 = 6 seconds (in dog years)
1/4 mile = 12 seconds flat (in dog years)

[swami]

-Tournament Finished.
-Congrats to Allard Siemelink, the author of Bright.


-Big Thanks to those who participated in EPC
-Thanks to all the engine programmers who made this tournament possible.



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[swami]

For complete Result:

http://computerchessblogger.googlepages ... tJuly.html

[swami]

Engine Prediction Contest - Special Edition "Grand Blitz Tournament"

Maximum Possible points: 506.5

Numero Uno: Permanent Brain (aka Michael Scheidl) 499

497 Points (To break the tie: Rankings based on Participants choice of higher engine order)

2.George Lyapko
3.Jim Ablett
4.Tobias Lagemann
5.Uri Blass
6.Vampele (aka Teemu Pudas)
7.Denis P Mendoza
8.Graham Banks
9.Tony Thomas
10.Ulysses P

Harun Taner 494
Dann Corbit 492.5
Edsel Apostol, Audy Arandela, Dr.Wael Deeb 490
Pedro Castro 489.5
KingofMate 485
Sergio Martinez, Pia 483.5
Maria 483
Turbo Juice 476.5
Pavel Hase 476
Evgenni Manev 468
Kenny Dail 458.5

Not posted in time:

James Uselton - 496.5 (?)

If there are any errors, please reply to this post or send me pm, I have to make deals with few engine authors to award the winners and all that participated a consolation prize. Please send me pm to claim it.

Congrats to Michael Scheidl, Applauses Please!
and Finally, A Big Thanks to all the participants, Hope you had fun playing/following the tournament.

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Engine Prediction Contest - Special Edition "Grand Blitz Tournament"

Maximum Possible points: 506.5

Numero Uno: Permanent Brain (aka Michael Scheidl) 499

497 Points (To break the tie: Rankings based on Participants choice of higher engine order)

2.George Lyapko
3.Jim Ablett
4.Tobias Lagemann
5.Uri Blass
6.Vampele (aka Teemu Pudas)
7.Denis P Mendoza
8.Graham Banks
9.Tony Thomas
10.Ulysses P

Harun Taner 494
Dann Corbit 492.5
Edsel Apostol, Audy Arandela, Dr.Wael Deeb 490
Pedro Castro 489.5
KingofMate 485
Sergio Martinez, Pia 483.5
Maria 483
Turbo Juice 476.5
Pavel Hase 476
Evgenni Manev 468
Kenny Dail 458.5

Not posted in time:

James Uselton - 496.5 (?)

If there are any errors, please reply to this post or send me pm, I have to make deals with few engine authors to award the winners and all that participated a consolation prize. Please send me pm to claim it.

Congrats to Michael Scheidl, Applauses Please!
and Finally, A Big Thanks to all the participants, Hope you had fun playing/following the tournament.

Graham Banks and Tony Thomas have cheated to get themselves in the top 10....
Trying to make troubles regards,
Dr.Wael Deeb

[Graham Banks]

Graham Banks and Tony Thomas have cheated to get themselves in the top 10....
Trying to make troubles regards,
Dr.Wael Deeb

Damn - sprung!