On-line blitz tourney November

[hgm]

The on-line engine blitz tourney for this month will take place at:

Saturday November 20, 21:00 CET

I suppose this will be 3 a.m. EST, but I am not sure. Here we are no longer on daylight-saving time, and the 3 a.m. assumes you are not either.

[TonyJH]

Hi H.G.,
A bit off topic: do you plan to run a 10x8 tourney this year like you have previously?

[hgm]

There seems to be little point in it, as it would be merely a repetition of last year's event, as there are no new engines, and not even new versions of most engines. (Unless TJchess10x8 has been greatly improved.) So it seems better to wait until Gregory Strong has equiped his new engine Quadrox with 10x8 capability.

Apart from that, the disk of the PC I was doing this from has died, and I don't know how difficult it will be to rebuild the setup (server, viewer page).

How about Seirawan Chess? Next version of WinBoard will support that amongst its official variants. Could you easily make one of your engines support Seirawan Chess? There is a sub-variant of it where you are allowed to introduce the pieces as regular piece drops (but restricted to the back rank); that might be even easier (knowing that your engines also play Crazyhouse).

Fairy-Max now plays the version where the pieces are gated in, but it gates blindly at the earliest opportunity (even when the gated piece would be immediately captured), as the gating is not in its search. I still got to fix that.

[yoshiharu]

Hi HG,
I would like to play this tournament with my engine, but I don't know if you have set up an account for me yet. Did you receive my PM?

Cheers, Mauro

[tano-urayoan]

The on-line engine blitz tourney for this month will take place at:

Saturday November 20, 21:00 CET

I suppose this will be 3 a.m. EST, but I am not sure. Here we are no longer on daylight-saving time, and the 3 a.m. assumes you are not either.

Isn't this an extreme daylight saving?[/b]

[hgm]

Oops!

I meant to say 3 p.m., of course...

[Engin]

hello H.G.

why do not let your server 24 hours online and the most work doing the pear tournament manager automaticly every time blitz tournaments and pairings, like on ICC/FCS humans are doing everytime.why we are waiting every month to play one tournament. OR if is not possible may we can make every week or 2 weeks a blitz tournament ?

on the other hand do you plan to calculating ELO too, from this blitz tournaments? i mean rated not unrated games to play

[hgm]

The server _is_ on-line 24 on 7. Nothing has to stop you from doing this. But if I don't synchronize people to show up, and they just dropped by randomly, on the average there would be only one at the time, and tourneys with only a single participant are usually not very interesting.

Anyone can announce a tournament on my server anytime, here or on other forums. If they wanted to use mamer, they would need to be on the list of Tournament Managers, but I am willing to put them there, if they request it.

[TonyJH]

I agree, probably worth waiting if there's not much new for 10x8. I do have a improved version of TJchess10x8 that I haven't released yet. I don't think it's quite at Joker80 level.

Just looked at Seirawan chess. I guess it would be a little time consuming to add this to TJchess because of generating the moves that place the new pieces in play (including castling).

Fairy-Max now plays the version where the pieces are gated in, but it gates blindly at the earliest opportunity (even when the gated piece would be immediately captured), as the gating is not in its search. I still got to fix that.

Is that version the standard version of Seirawan chess?

[hgm]

Indeed, Fairy-Max plays the standard version. Come to think of it, gating at the Rook square during castling probably will not work,and be rejected as illegalmove. (This uses RxK notation in WB protocol.) I must fix that...