On-line blitz tourney January

[hgm]

The monthly engine blitz tourney for January will be on

Saturday Jan 14, 3pm EST (21:00 CET)

To connect, use

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

(and for UCI engines add -fUCI). Be there about 15 min in advance.

[jshriver]

Will be there as an observer.

[hgm]

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:Tourney Players: Round 9 of 9 
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:     Name              Rating Score Perfrm Upset  Results 
:     ----------------- ------ ----- ------ ------ ------- 
:  1 -RybkaGB           [2258]  8.0  [2283] [  38] +06w +07w +04b +03w -02b +05w +09b +08w +10b 
:  2 +Critter           [2171]  8.0  [2223] [ 212] +08w +10w +07b +12b +01w =03w =05b +04w +11b 
:  3 +Chiron            [2061]  7.0  [2087] [  55] +12w +05w +10b -01b +07w =02b =06b +11w +13b 
:  4 +Thinker           [2296]  5.5  [1948] [   0] -05b +09w -01w =06b +11w +08w +14b -02b +07w 
:  5 -WaDuuttie         [1884]  5.5  [2046] [ 640] +04w -03b =09w +08b +10w -01b =02w =07b +14w 
:  6 +Almere            [1806]  5.5  [1982] [ 491] -01b +11b =08w =04w +12b -07b =03w +13w +09b 
:  7 -Nightmare         [2008]  4.5  [1902] [   0] +14w -01b -02w +11b -03b +06w +13b =05w -04b 
:  8 -GaviotaRB         [1716]  4.5  [1854] [ 216] -02b +13w =06b -05w +14w -04b +10w -01b +12w 
:  9 -Goldbar           [1925]  4.0  [1755] [   0] =11w -04b =05b -10w +13b +12w -01w +14b -06w
: 10 +Baron             [1887]  4.0  [1778] [  38] +13w -02b -03w +09b -05b +14w -08b +12w -01w 
: 11 +Spandrel          [   0]  3.5  [1762] [5353] =09b -06w +14b -07w -04b +13w +12b -03b -02w 
: 12 +Spartacus         [1424]  2.0  [1578] [ 251] -03b +14w +13b -02w -06w -09b -11w -10b -08b 
: 13 +MatmoiJS          [   0]  1.0  [1443] [1292] -10b -08b -12w +14b -09w -11b -07w -06b -03w 
: 14 +microMax          [1292]  0.0  [1432] [   0] -07b -12b -11w -13w -08b -10b -04w -09w -05b 
:
:     Average Rating    1894.0 
:

Except for a Thinker disconnect and resulting forfeit in the first round, the tourney went very smoothly. Which is nice, because I had made a lot of changes to the ICS code lately, and this was the first 'field test' of this new code. But it doesn't look like I have broken anything!