Super Tournament 8CPU (live broadcasts)

[Graham Banks]

SUPER TOURNAMENT 8CPU

Intel Xeon X5430x2 Octal
ChessGUI
2048mb hash where possible
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
ICCFMasters2011.cgb book (limited to depth of 8 moves)
40 moves in 40 minutes repeating (non-CCRL)
All engines 64-bit where available
All engines using 8 cores
9 Round Swiss


Participants

Houdini 2.0c
Stockfish 2.3.1
Critter 1.6a
Deep Rybka 4.1s (Super settings)
Ivanhoe 9.46h
Vitruvius 1.11C
Deep Hiarcs 14
Naum 4.2
Chiron 1.1a
Bouquet 1.5
Deep Junior 13.3
Sting SF PV 120629
Deep Shredder 12
Protector 1.4.0
Zappa Mexico II
Spark 1.0
Deep Onno 1.2.70
Deep Sjeng WC2008
MinkoChess 1.3
Tornado 4.88
Crafty 23.5
Jonny 4.00
BugChess2 1.9
Arasan 15.0
Gaviota 0.85.1
Delphil 2.9g beta5
Arminius 2012-08-14
Bagatur 1.3


I will post each round here, along with a link to the pgns.
The tournament can be followed live move by move in Playchess or in TLCV (GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port 16083).

[bupalo]

great!! We will see which program scales better!

[Graham Banks]

Round 1 Pairings

Houdini 2.0c v Zappa Mexico II
Spark 1.0 v Stockfish 2.3.1
Critter 1.6a v Deep Onnon 1.2.70
Deep Sjeng WC2008 v Deep Rybka 4.1s
Ivanhoe 9.46h v MinkoChess 1.3
Tornado 4.88 v Vitruvius 1.11C
Deep Hiarcs 14 v Crafty 23.5
Jonny 4.00 v Naum 4.2
Chiron 1.1a v BugChess2 1.9
Arasan 15.0 v Bouquet 1.5
Deep Junior 13.3 v Gaviota 0.85.1
Delphil 2.9g beta5 v Sting SF PV 120629
Deep Shredder 12 v Arminius 2012-08-14
Bagatur 1.3 v Protector 1.4.0


The tournament can be followed live move by move in Playchess or in TLCV (GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port 16083).

[velmarin]

We had the first surprise,

the defeat of a favorite, Stockfish, before Spark.

We will have a "submarine".

Graham, as always, many thanks.

[Carlos777]

9 rounds. Great!

It will be interesting.

Thanks Graham.

[LudiBuda]

Yes.
I don't care about the speed of the actual machine.
What's interesting about this tournament is to see how different engines scale on 8 CPUs.

[Modern Times]

Yes.
I don't care about the speed of the actual machine.
What's interesting about this tournament is to see how different engines scale on 8 CPUs.

Yes, agreed.

[carldaman]

Kudos for another fine tournament, Graham, and for making it 9 (odd) rounds

Nice that you've included Zappa and Naum, after all

Best Regards,
Carl

[Graham Banks]

Kudos for another fine tournament, Graham, and for making it 9 (odd) rounds

Nice that you've included Zappa and Naum, after all

Best Regards,
Carl

Hi Carl,

I remembered the request for an odd number of rounds this time.

Had to include Naum, Zappa and Onno to keep numbers sensible for a 9 round swiss.

Left out DeepSaros, Cyclone and RedQueen due to time loss/crashing issues last time.
Minkochess is okay if I use the author's compile, but BugChess is another that crashes on occasions, so will need to watch that.

Scorpio kept wanting to use a core when it was the opponent's turn to move, so had to leave it out.
Couldn't get Spike working okay using 8 cores, so gave up and left it out too.
Left Bright out because Spark is by the same author.
Left Deep Fritz out because I'm using ChessGUI as the GUI.

Bagatur, Arasan and Crafty weren't in the last tourney, but work fine under ChessGUI, so can include them this time.

[S.Taylor]

Round 1 Pairings

Houdini 2.0c v Zappa Mexico II
Spark 1.0 v Stockfish 2.3.1
Critter 1.6a v Deep Onnon 1.2.70
Deep Sjeng WC2008 v Deep Rybka 4.1s
Ivanhoe 9.46h v MinkoChess 1.3
Tornado 4.88 v Vitruvius 1.11C
Deep Hiarcs 14 v Crafty 23.5
Jonny 4.00 v Naum 4.2
Chiron 1.1a v BugChess2 1.9
Arasan 15.0 v Bouquet 1.5
Deep Junior 13.3 v Gaviota 0.85.1
Delphil 2.9g beta5 v Sting SF PV 120629
Deep Shredder 12 v Arminius 2012-08-14
Bagatur 1.3 v Protector 1.4.0


The tournament can be followed live move by move in Playchess or in TLCV (GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port 16083).

Do you have a link that you can highlight?
Something easily accesible like Chessbomb perhaps?