On-line blitz tourney July

[hgm]

The on-line engine blitz tourney for July will be held

Saturday July 9, 3pm EST (21:00 CET)

To connect, you can use:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost 80.100.28.169 -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz

(for an UCI engine, append -fUCI).

[Ferdy]

The on-line engine blitz tourney for July will be held

Saturday July 9, 3pm EST (21:00 CET)

To connect, you can use:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost 80.100.28.169 -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz

(for an UCI engine, append -fUCI).

I would like to participate, are there any other requirements? Thank you.

[hgm]

Just PM me an e-mail address and the name of the engine, so that I can prepare a registered account for you.

[Michel]

A quick comment. GnuCheese just lost the following game against Trace on time.

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[Event "ICS Rated blitz match"]
[Site "localhost"]
[Date "2011.07.08"]
[Round "-"]
[White "GnuCheese"]
[Black "Trace"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1782"]
[BlackElo "1643"]
[TimeControl "120+12"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Nf3 Ngf6 6. Nxf6+ Nxf6 7. Bd3
b6 8. Qe2 Bb7 9. O-O Be7 10. Bf4 O-O 11. Be5 Nd7 12. Rad1 Nxe5 13. dxe5 Qc8
14. Be4 Bxe4 15. Qxe4 c5 16. h4 Qc7 17. Ng5 Bxg5 18. hxg5 Rad8 19. f4 c4
20. Kh2 c3 21. Rxd8 Rxd8 22. b3 Qd7 23. Kg3 b5 24. a3 a5 25. Rf3 Qd2 26.
Qc6 Qe1+ 27. Kg4 b4 28. axb4 axb4 29. Qb6 Qd1 30. Kg3 h5 31. gxh6 Rd2 32.
Qb8+ Kh7 33. Qf8 Qe1+ 34. Kh2 Qh4+ 35. Rh3 Qxf4+ 36. Rg3 Qh4+ 37. Rh3 Qf4+
38. Rg3 Qh4+ 39. Rh3 Qf4+
{GnuCheese forfeits on time} 0-1

However when checking the log file I noticed that this is a draw by threefold
repetition. GnuCheese correctly claimed the draw but the ICS
interpreted it as a draw offer and simply forwarded it to the opponent who
ignored it.
GnuCheese refused to make a further move and hence lost on time.


PS. I tried to compile the ICS but it did not work out of the box. I have
not tried again.

[Michel]

Here is the conversation log

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Fri Jul  8 17:57:32 2011:DEBUG:ics->icsdrone: <12> -----Q-- -----ppk ----p--P ----P--- -p---q-- -Pp----R --Pr--PK -------- W -1 0 0 0 0 8 1 GnuCheese Trace 1 2 12 19 19 260 222 40 Q/h4-f4 (0:12) Qf4+ 0 1\012\015
Fri Jul  8 17:57:32 2011:DEBUG:icsdrone->engine: time 26000\012otim 22200\012
Fri Jul  8 17:57:32 2011:DEBUG:icsdrone->engine: usermove Qf4+\012
Fri Jul  8 17:57:32 2011:DEBUG:ics->icsdrone: \012\015\015
Fri Jul  8 17:57:32 2011:DEBUG:engine->icsdrone: 1/2-1/2 {Draw by repetition}\012
Fri Jul  8 17:57:32 2011:DEBUG:icsdrone->ics: draw\012
Fri Jul  8 17:57:32 2011:DEBUG:ics->icsdrone: fics% \012\015
Fri Jul  8 17:57:32 2011:DEBUG:ics->icsdrone: Trace(1643)(C) kibitzes: !!! +0.00/17 (0.49 sec, 1628339 nodes, 3316 knps) \012\015
Fri Jul  8 17:57:32 2011:DEBUG:ics->icsdrone: \   PV=h4f4\012\015
Fri Jul  8 17:57:32 2011:DEBUG:ics->icsdrone: fics% Draw request sent.\012\015

[bhlangonijr]

The on-line engine blitz tourney for July will be held

Saturday July 9, 3pm EST (21:00 CET)

To connect, you can use:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost 80.100.28.169 -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz

(for an UCI engine, append -fUCI).

Hello HG, please check your PMs.

[Ferdy]

Hi,

Preparing for the tourney now, my first time here. I was able to log on using the following batch and ini files. I am using winboard 4.5.2a.

Are there any other settings required? BTW what is the time control? Is this a round-robin or swiss? How many rounds?

Thank you.


ics-muller.bat

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:loop
start /w winboard -zp -ics -icshost 80.100.28.169 -debug -debugfile july-tourney.log -icshelper timeseal -fcp deuterium18.exe -fd "C:\myfiles\chess\project\deuterium v11.02.29.18" -autoKibitz -icslogon logon-muller.ini
goto loop

and my logon file is:

logon-muller.ini

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Deuterium
mypassword
set 1 This account is run using Deuterium v11.02.29.18
set 2 Hardware: AMD x6 1055T, 2.8 Ghz, 4 GB RAM (use 1 core only)
set 3 It uses up to 5 men Endgame Bitbases by Daniel Shawul
set 4 Draw offer is not supported
set 5 This account is operated by Ferdinand

[hgm]

As TC we usually take 5+1 or 5+2. If it is round-robin or swiss depends on the number of participants; usually we do 9 rounds of Swiss.

[JVMerlino]

Sigh. Train running late and I was hoping to make this one.

jm

[hgm]

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:Tourney Players: Round 9 of 9 
:
:     Name              Rating Score Perfrm Upset  Results 
:     ----------------- ------ ----- ------ ------ ------- 
:  1 +RybkaGB           [   0]  8.5  [2204] [15611] +06w +05b =02w +07w +03b +04w +08w +09b +10w 
:  2 +Chiron            [2058]  8.0  [2117] [   0] +08w +07w =01b +03w =04w +05b +06w +10b +09w 
:  3 -Almere            [1796]  6.0  [1939] [ 489] +13w +04b +09w -02b -01w =06b +07w =05b +14b 
:  4 -Nightmare         [2008]  5.5  [1832] [  25] +10w -03w =08b +05w =02b -01b +13w +11b =07b 
:  5 -Baron             [1892]  5.5  [1758] [   0] +11b -01w +10w -04b +08b -02w +14b =03w +12w 
:  6 +Gaviota           [1815]  5.5  [1750] [   0] -01b -09w +12b +11b +10w =03w -02b +14w +13b 
:  7 -searcher          [1888]  5.0  [1751] [  78] +14w -02b +11w -01b +13w =09w -03b +12b =04w 
:  8 +Deuterium         [1664]  5.0  [1762] [ 443] -02b +12b =04w +09b -05w +14w -01b +13w =11w 
:  9 -Rookie            [1924]  4.0  [1666] [   0] =12w +06b -03b -08w +11w =07b +10b-01w -02b
: 10 -Glass             [1595]  3.0  [1625] [  80] -04b +13w -05b +14w -06b +12b -09w -02w -01b 
: 11 +Myrddin           [1446]  3.0  [1605] [ 345] -05w +14b -07b -06w -09b +13b =12w -04w =08b 
: 12 +Spartacus         [1461]  2.0  [1469] [ 231] =09b -08w -06w -13b +14b -10w =11b -07w -05b 
: 13 +Chexa             [   0]  2.0  [1443] [2783] -03b -10b +14w +12w -07b -11w -04b -08b -06w 
: 14 +microMax          [1322]  0.0  [1292] [   0] -07b -11w -13b -10b -12w -08b -05w -06b -03w 
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:     Average Rating    1739.1 
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