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 engine will gain automatic promotion and the bottom engine will face automatic relegation. The fate of the second top and second to bottom engines and perhaps others will be determined by grading matches before the next series.
I will post updates here after every six rounds, but for those wishing to follow the tournament more closely, you can do so from the following link: http://www.kirill-kryukov.com/chess/dis ... f=7&t=4756
Games will be available for download after every two rounds.
For what they're worth, my thoughts on Division 6:
Cheese will be tough to head off, but I expect it will get a tough challenge from AliChess.
Butcher and Ares could well be in the bid for promotion also.
OliThink, Feuerstein, BlackBishop, ChessAlex and Uralochka will likely be the midtable finishers.
Waxman, Neurosis and TJchess will be struggling for survival in this division. I pick TJchess to prop up the field.
Graham Banks wrote:For what they're worth, my thoughts on Division 6:
Cheese will be tough to head off, but I expect it will get a tough challenge from AliChess.
Butcher and Ares could well be in the bid for promotion also.
OliThink, Feuerstein, BlackBishop, ChessAlex and Uralochka will likely be the midtable finishers.
Waxman, Neurosis and TJchess will be struggling for survival in this division. I pick TJchess to prop up the field.
Again, a difficult group for prediction.
I havent tested Ares. I would place:
Cheese for the first spot, and Waxman for the last.
