21st Amateur Series Division 4

[Graham Banks]

Neat tour for Dirty!

Thx Graham !

Yep - guaranteed promotion with two rounds still to go. Life should be more interesting for Dirty in Division 3 next series.

Cheers,
Graham.

[Andres Valverde]

Neat tour for Dirty!

Thx Graham !

Yep - guaranteed promotion with two rounds still to go. Life should be more interesting for Dirty in Division 3 next series.

Cheers,
Graham.

Yes, scary We need new weapons

[Graham Banks]

21ST AMATEUR SERIES (Division 4)

Intel Q6600 Quad Core
ChessGUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
HS-Large Remis book (limited to 12 moves)
40 moves in 32 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 32-bit 1CPU

The top two engines are likely to gain automatic promotion, but there will be no automatic relegation. The third top engine and the bottom engine (perhaps others also) will play grading matches to determine which division they will play in for the next series.

Final Standings

29.5 - Dirty 6J-22
26.5 - Matacz 1.4
25.0 - Xpdnt 091007
24.5 - LittleThought 1.052 32-bit
23.5 - Delphil 2.6a
23.5 - Gaviota 0.75.7 32-bit
20.5 - GreKo 7.0
19.5 - Amundsen 0.80
19.0 - Rodin 3.0
18.0 - Typhoon 1.00-358
17.5 - OliThink 5.3.0
17.0 - NanoSzachy 3.8


The complete tournament pgn (zipped) can be downloaded here:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=19382

[nthom]

Missed it by that much.

[Graham Banks]

Missed it by that much.

I was quietly hoping you'd finish higher, but still a creditable performance from LittleThought.

Cheers,
Graham.

[michiguel]

21ST AMATEUR SERIES (Division 4)

Intel Q6600 Quad Core
ChessGUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
HS-Large Remis book (limited to 12 moves)
40 moves in 32 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 32-bit 1CPU

The top two engines are likely to gain automatic promotion, but there will be no automatic relegation. The third top engine and the bottom engine (perhaps others also) will play grading matches to determine which division they will play in for the next series.

Final Standings

29.5 - Dirty 6J-22
26.5 - Matacz 1.4
25.0 - Xpdnt 091007
24.5 - LittleThought 1.052 32-bit
23.5 - Delphil 2.6a
23.5 - Gaviota 0.75.7 32-bit
20.5 - GreKo 7.0
19.5 - Amundsen 0.80
19.0 - Rodin 3.0
18.0 - Typhoon 1.00-358
17.5 - OliThink 5.3.0
17.0 - NanoSzachy 3.8


The complete tournament pgn (zipped) can be downloaded here:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=19382

After being really worried about the UCI version with a 1 point out of 6, Gaviota finished in the top half. I think that I panicked too soon and there is nothing wrong with it. I am glad we kept it and did not changed it with the WB mode.

Thanks,
Miguel

[Graham Banks]

After being really worried about the UCI version with a 1 point out of 6, Gaviota finished in the top half. I think that I panicked too soon and there is nothing wrong with it. I am glad we kept it and did not changed it with the WB mode.

Thanks,
Miguel

Yes. The UCI version seemed to run just fine and made a good recovery from its slow start. Already looking forward to seeing it in action again!

Cheers,
Graham.

[F. Bluemers]

Neat tour for Dirty!

Thx Graham !

Yep - guaranteed promotion with two rounds still to go. Life should be more interesting for Dirty in Division 3 next series.

Cheers,
Graham.

Just going over the games.
Most of them seem to be rather tough fights...
You threw together a nice bunch of opponents.

That 3rd divison might become some kind of nightmare

Thanks for the tour,
best
Fonzy

[Graham Banks]

Just going over the games.
Most of them seem to be rather tough fights...
You threw together a nice bunch of opponents.

That 3rd divison might become some kind of nightmare

Thanks for the tour,
best
Fonzy

Hi Fonzy,

most of the divisions have pretty even fields, so it's no surprise to me that sometimes engines find it tougher than their authors expect. For this reason alone, it's a good idea to make the game pgns available for them to check out.
In a fairly even field, interesting things can sometimes happen over 44 rounds.

Well done on Dirty's performance. Roll on 22nd Division 3!

Cheers,
Graham.