Grand Blitz Tournament - Predict the Top 6 Engines!

[swami]

Grand Blitz Tournament

Participants List:
(only the Top 15 seedings is shuffled)

Code: Select all

Ruffian 1.05
Glaurung 2.1
Wildcat 8
Toga 1.4
Delfi 5.3b   
Spike 1.2
Booot 4.14
Naum 2.0
ETChess Jan 08
Fruit 051103
Scorpio 2.0 
Bright 0.3a 
Alaric 707
Frenzee Feb08
Thinker 5.2a
The King Trail Blazer
Slowchess Blitz Vw2
List 5.12
Pharaon 3.5
Twisted Logic 20080620
Jonny 2.83
Pro Deo 1.6
Trace 1.37a
The Baron 1.81 
Bugchess 1.6.2
Pseudo 0.7
Movei 00_8_446
Aristarch 4.50
Crafty 22.1
Hamsters 0.7 
Alfil 8.11 
Colossus 2007d
GLC 301.2.2
Sloppy 0.20 
Bruja 1.9
Anmon 5.60
Zappa 1.1 
Danasah 3.7 
Yace Paderborn 
Ufim 802 
Abrok 6
Danchess CCT7 
Petir 4999999
Arasan 10.4 
Ktulu 4.2
WbNimzo 2000
Hermann 2.3
Wchess 1.6 
Gromit 3.82
LGRevival 
Gothmog 
Nejmet 
King of Kings 
Lambchop
Spiderchess
Phalanx
Comet
Diablo 
Anatoli
Gaia 
Cerebro
KnightD3
Delphil
Typhoon 
Quark
Snitch
TCB 
Pepito
Muse
Tao
Flux 
Matacz 
Amy 
Counter 
Averno
Der Bringer 
Arion
Kiwi 
Deep Patzer
Amyan
Leila
Romichess
Horizon 
Greko
Djnnn
Xpdnt
Cyrano
Garbo chess
Aice
Queen 
Dragon 
Thor's Hammer 
Resp 
Amateur 
Joker 
BBChess
KnightX 
Homer 
Terra
Sage 
NOW 
Cheese 
Caligula
Chezz 
Joker
Brutus 
ZCT 
Sorgenkind

Settings:

Q6600 2.6GHZ x4, 2 GB RAM
Engines use their own opening book.
TC: 1/1, Games - Single Round Robin- 5050 Games.
GUI: Arena 1.99 beta 4

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Rules:

1.You are required to predict the Top 6 engines, alone.

2.You can choose the set of engines that others have already chosen. If this is the case, You can compete with them on engine order, this is optional and not must.No Restrictions.

3.Write the engines-Order Properly, Take this into consideration when you attempt your Top-6. If someone else chose the same set of engines as yours but changed the order, then the result would favour the one who chose the 1st ranked engine in respective order.

4.You can modify or entirely change your picks any number of times until the result is published, time left is displayed in a poll.

5.No engine updates are allowed during the tournament. If there is a severe bug being found in one of the engines, then the author may send me the file or update the engine publicly, I can replace the version during the tournament and restart the games.

6.You can post your predictions on the forum or You can choose to send it to me via pm if you don't want others to see what you have chosen.

[swami]

Note: Only the top 15 seedings is Shuffled.


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[Jim Ablett]

toga,
fruit,
thinker,
glaurung,
bright,
spike

Jim.

[swami]

Few more notes:

- Multi CPU engines use 2 CPU, not 4.
- Rybka 1.0 beta had several crashes. So I decided to remove it from the tournament.

[beachknight]

glaurung,
bright,
thinker,
toga,
naum,
the king.

ht

[Rubinus]

Toga, Fruit, Glaurung, Bright, Naum, Alaric.

[Ovyron]

Glaurung
Thinker
Bright
Fruit
Spike
Toga

[Ovyron]

5.No engine updates are allowed during the tournament. If there is a severe bug being found in one of the engines, then the author may send me the file or update the engine publicly, I can replace the version during the tournament and restart the games.

Thanks Tony!

I just wanted to say that 5.2A is the wrong version. It should be 5.2B. The "A" variety was built incorrectly (especially the 64-bit version).

Thanks again.

Does that count as a severe bug?

[Edsel Apostol]

Toga
Fruit
Glaurung
Spike
Thinker
Twisted Logic

Go Twisted!!

[swami]

5.No engine updates are allowed during the tournament. If there is a severe bug being found in one of the engines, then the author may send me the file or update the engine publicly, I can replace the version during the tournament and restart the games.

Thanks Tony!

I just wanted to say that 5.2A is the wrong version. It should be 5.2B. The "A" variety was built incorrectly (especially the 64-bit version).

Thanks again.

Does that count as a severe bug?

I have replaced the version with Thinker 5.2B. Thanks!

In case, the engine makes illegal moves as someone reported it, I will use the older one instead until I wait for the version with bug fixed.