CPU: Intel i7 920 @ 4021 MHz
GUI: Chessbase 12
Hash: 1024 MB*
Nalimov Tablebases: 3-4-5
Scorpio Bitbases: 3-4-5
Gaviota Tablebases: 3-4-5
Ponder: On
Engine Updates: Not Allowed
Openings: Martin Thoresen's Engine Suite II
Time Control: 90m + 15s
Format: Knock-out
Length: 16 Games Per Pair
Total Number Of Games: >=240
*Optimally, however some engines has internal limits like for instance 768 MB.
Participants:
Arasan 11.7 x64 t2
Brutus 8.05 JA x64 t2
Bugchess2 1.6.4 x64
Cerebro 3.03d
Chess Tiger 2007.1
Chiron 0.8.7
Colossus 2008b
Crafty 23.2 JA x64
The Baron 2.23 x64
Daydreamer 1.75 JA x64
Gaviota 0.74.41 DC x64 t2
Jonny 2.83 x64
Ktulu 4.2
N2 0.1 x64
Philou 3.1.4.1
Scorpio 2.5 JA x64
Pairings:
Pair 1:
Crafty 23.2 JA x64
VS
Chess Tiger 2007.1
Pair 2:
Chiron 0.8.7
VS
The Baron 2.23 x64
Pair 3:
Daydreamer 1.75 JA x64
VS
Colossus 2008b
Pair 4:
Brutus 8.05 JA x64 t2
VS
Arasan 11.7 x64 t2
Pair 5:
Gaviota 0.74.41 DC x64 t2
VS
N2 0.1 x64
Pair 6:
Philou 3.1.4.1
VS
Cerebro 3.03d
Pair 7:
Jonny 2.83 x64
VS
Ktulu 4.2
Pair 8:
Scorpio 2.5 JA x64
VS
Bugchess2 1.6.4 x64
Comments:
Hello and welcome to the first knock-out tournament in the Cutting Edge series.
The engine participants consist of both old and new engines. Updates to
engines will not be allowed during the tournament, so if any engine author
plans on releasing a new version of your engine please let me know.
Also, as you can see the focus is on amateur engines this time (except
for Chess Tiger). I think it's really cool that authors hang around here
and post their impressions, like Aaron with Daydreamer and Miguel with
Gaviota. I am excited to hear your thoughts on your opponents, Colossus
and N2 respectively.
The time control is the same as the previous Cutting Edge tournament,
fairly long at 90m + 15s per move running on fast, modern hardware.
Each pair will play 16 games. The winner of Pair 1 will face the winner of
Pair 2, the winner of Pair 3 will face the winner of Pair 4 and so on.
The openings used are displayed below these comments. 8 different
openings will be used, the engines play them both as white and black so
a total of 16 games will be played per pair.
A minimum of 240 games will be played (128 + 64 + 32 + 16).
However, if a match ties then there will be 4 tie-break rapid games
(18m + 3s) using the first two openings. If still tied, the next 2 openings
will be used (for another 4 games) and so on.
A poll has been created, in which you can guess the winner. Please note
that the poll will only run for 3 days, after which the first results will
be posted.
Also keep in mind that this tournament will not start until the current
Cutting Edge Swiss Open has finished (in about ~1 day).
Openings Used:
Game 1 & 2:
A07 King's Indian Attack
1.g3 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bg2 c6 4.O-O Bg4 *
[d]
Game 3 & 4:
C11 French
1.d4 e6 2.e4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 *
[d]
Game 5 & 6:
D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 d6 *
[d]
Game 7 & 8:
B55 Sicilian
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 *
[d]
Game 9 & 10:
A03 Bird's Opening
1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e3 g6 4.b3 Bg7 *
[d]
Game 11 & 12:
E01 Catalan
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 Be7 *
[d]
Game 13 & 14:
C77 Ryu Lopez
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 *
[d]
Game 15 & 16:
A13 English Opening
1.b3 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bb2 e6 4.c4 Be7 *
[d]
PGN Download:
Will be added after the first update.
. They played to a draw in your last tournament, and I found a few flaws in Daydreamer's eval when looking over the game. I do think Daydreamer has a small advantage.)
