8 core tournament with live broadcast

[Ajedrecista]

Hi Graham!

Houdini 1.5a
Stockfish 2.2.2
Rybka 4.1
Critter 1.6a
Vitruvius 1.11C
Ivanhoe 9.46h
Deep Saros 3.2
Naum 4.2
Chiron 1.1a
Deep Fritz 13
Deep Junior 13
Deep Shredder 12
Bouquet 1.2
Spike 1.4 Leiden
Protector 1.4.0
Hiarcs 13.2
Zappa Mexico II
Spark 1.0
Deep Onno 1.2.70
Deep Sjeng WC2008
Bright 0.5c
MinkoChess 1.3
Tornado 4.88
Cyclone xTreme
Jonny 4.00
BugChess2 1.9
Gaviota 0.85.1
Delphil 2.9d


The version of Houdini 2.0c that I have uses 6 cores max, whereas Houdini 1.5a uses all 8 cores.

Sting SF PV causes an exception, so I can't currently use it.
Loop 13.6, Toga II 1.4.1SE and Thinker 5.4d Inert only use 4 cores max.

I cannot get Crafty 23.4 or Scorpio 2.7 working on this computer using the wb2uci files.

Incredible tournament! Congrats for all your effort, as in Amateur Series.

I took a look and did not see any Spanish engine. Here are some suggestions:

Countrychess: Spain, premier division

Alfil 12 should be as strong as Delphil 2.9d (it is only a guess), and it is multicore... although I do not know if it will support eight cores. Gödel 2.0.5 or Danasah 4.88 could be other engine/s, even Dirty (though Dirty is not totally Spanish)... I am sure you know very well these relatively strong engines and maybe one of them could be in your super tournament, only in the case that they can run in an Octa. Rating lists can help in the possible choice.

I think that all these engines are WB, so I do not know if WB2UCI will work for one of them.

Please keep up the good work! Thanks in advance for your attention.

Regards from Spain.

Ajedrecista.

[Graham Banks]

Hi Graham!

Houdini 1.5a
Stockfish 2.2.2
Rybka 4.1
Critter 1.6a
Vitruvius 1.11C
Ivanhoe 9.46h
Deep Saros 3.2
Naum 4.2
Chiron 1.1a
Deep Fritz 13
Deep Junior 13
Deep Shredder 12
Bouquet 1.2
Spike 1.4 Leiden
Protector 1.4.0
Hiarcs 13.2
Zappa Mexico II
Spark 1.0
Deep Onno 1.2.70
Deep Sjeng WC2008
Bright 0.5c
MinkoChess 1.3
Tornado 4.88
Cyclone xTreme
Jonny 4.00
BugChess2 1.9
Gaviota 0.85.1
Delphil 2.9d


The version of Houdini 2.0c that I have uses 6 cores max, whereas Houdini 1.5a uses all 8 cores.

Sting SF PV causes an exception, so I can't currently use it.
Loop 13.6, Toga II 1.4.1SE and Thinker 5.4d Inert only use 4 cores max.

I cannot get Crafty 23.4 or Scorpio 2.7 working on this computer using the wb2uci files.

Incredible tournament! Congrats for all your effort, as in Amateur Series.

I took a look and did not see any Spanish engine. Here are some suggestions:

Countrychess: Spain, premier division

Alfil 12 should be as strong as Delphil 2.9d (it is only a guess), and it is multicore... although I do not know if it will support eight cores. Gödel 2.0.5 or Danasah 4.88 could be other engine/s, even Dirty (though Dirty is not totally Spanish)... I am sure you know very well these relatively strong engines and maybe one of them could be in your super tournament, only in the case that they can run in an Octa. Rating lists can help in the possible choice.

I think that all these engines are WB, so I do not know if WB2UCI will work for one of them.

Please keep up the good work! Thanks in advance for your attention.

Regards from Spain.

Ajedrecista.

Thanks for your kind words.

I'll look at some other engines that can use 8 cores, including those mentioned. I'm surprised that some of those engine authors haven't said anything.

By the way, I now have Houdini 2.0c Pro, and as it can utilise the 8 cores, it will be included.

Graham.

[carldaman]

Can Thinker really use 8 cores?

Edit: I now see you mentioned it can only use 4. Great tournament!

Cheers,
CL

[Graham Banks]

Houdini 2.0c
Stockfish 2.2.2
Rybka 4.1
Critter 1.6a
Vitruvius 1.11C
Ivanhoe 9.46h
Deep Saros 3.2
Naum 4.2
Chiron 1.1a
Deep Fritz 13
Deep Junior 13
Deep Shredder 12
Bouquet 1.2 (likely to be Bouquet 1.3)
Spike 1.4 Leiden
Protector 1.4.0
Hiarcs 13.2
Zappa Mexico II
Spark 1.0
Deep Onno 1.2.70
Deep Sjeng WC2008
Bright 0.5c
MinkoChess 1.3
Tornado 4.88
Cyclone xTreme
Jonny 4.00
BugChess2 1.9
Gaviota 0.85.1
Delphil 2.9e b3
Arminius 20120628

Investigating further possibilities.
Arasan 14.2a 64-bit pops up a message saying that it can't open the game file, causing the GUI to crash.

[jdart]

Investigating further possibilities.
Arasan 14.2a 64-bit pops up a message saying that it can't open the game file, causing the GUI to crash.

Arasan writes completed games to a file, so you need write access to the install directory to do that. This behavior can be disabled by editing Arasan.rc (learning won't work either if you have no write access). Or you can try running it as a UCI engine.

--jon

[Graham Banks]

Investigating further possibilities.
Arasan 14.2a 64-bit pops up a message saying that it can't open the game file, causing the GUI to crash.

Arasan writes completed games to a file, so you need write access to the install directory to do that. This behavior can be disabled by editing Arasan.rc (learning won't work either if you have no write access). Or you can try running it as a UCI engine.

--jon

Hi Jon,

I was trying to run it as a uci engine under the Deep Fritz 13 GUI. The 32-bit exe was fine, but the 64-bit exe was a no go.
No problems with previous 64-bit versions.

Graham.

[Graham Banks]

Tournament gets underway in the next few hours, so any authors wanting to send private engines or betas will need to be quick.
There is a field of 30 engines at present. The only other engine that I could find that utilises 8 cores (without going too far down the rating lists) was RedQueen 1.1.1.

Houdini 2.0c
Stockfish 2.2.2
Rybka 4.1
Critter 1.6a
Vitruvius 1.11C
Ivanhoe 9.46h
Deep Saros 3.2
Naum 4.2
Chiron 1.1a
Deep Fritz 13
Deep Junior 13
Deep Shredder 12
Bouquet 1.3
Spike 1.4 Leiden
Protector 1.4.0
Hiarcs 13.2
Zappa Mexico II
Spark 1.0
Deep Onno 1.2.70
Deep Sjeng WC2008
Bright 0.5c
MinkoChess 1.3
Tornado 4.88
Cyclone xTreme
Jonny 4.00
BugChess2 1.9
Gaviota 0.85.1
Delphil 2.9e b3
Arminius 20120628
RedQueen 1.1.1

[gleperlier]

looking forward to see Delphil in this monster field

[Ajedrecista]

Hello!

Tournament gets underway in the next few hours, so any authors wanting to send private engines or betas will need to be quick.
There is a field of 30 engines at present. The only other engine that I could find that utilises 8 cores (without going too far down the rating lists) was RedQueen 1.1.1.

Houdini 2.0c
Stockfish 2.2.2
Rybka 4.1
Critter 1.6a
Vitruvius 1.11C
Ivanhoe 9.46h
Deep Saros 3.2
Naum 4.2
Chiron 1.1a
Deep Fritz 13
Deep Junior 13
Deep Shredder 12
Bouquet 1.3
Spike 1.4 Leiden
Protector 1.4.0
Hiarcs 13.2
Zappa Mexico II
Spark 1.0
Deep Onno 1.2.70
Deep Sjeng WC2008
Bright 0.5c
MinkoChess 1.3
Tornado 4.88
Cyclone xTreme
Jonny 4.00
BugChess2 1.9
Gaviota 0.85.1
Delphil 2.9e b3
Arminius 20120628
RedQueen 1.1.1

Good! In my other post of little suggestion, I wrongly said that there was not any Spanish engine... Bouquet is present! I saw it and thought: 'good, Velmarin (the author of Bouquet) has managed to enter in this super tournament', but knowing that it is a fast derivate of IPPOLIT family engines, I missed it for some unknown reason. I wanted to correct my error now. So, I will root for the new and unreleased Bouquet 1.3 altough there are many top engines...

I did not know anything about Arminius; just searching it in CPW, I see that its author is the same as Hermann engine.

I will follow your updates in Tournaments and Matches section. Thank you very much!

Regards from Spain.

Ajedrecista.

[Daniel Shawul]

Haven't you managed to get WB2Uci working? I haven't used it for a long time so I can't help there. HG or Jim can help get us poor winboarders into the tournament.
If you manage to get it working, use existing Scorpio because I don't have a windows machine to compile the new code, and also you are about to start..