Survival of the Fittest 12
CPU: Intel i7-970, hexacore
GUI: Arena 3.5
Hash: 256 MB
TB: 5 piece Syzygy / Gaviota / Nalimov / ScorpioBB / 4 piece ShredderBB
Time Control: 8 + 4, ponder off
Openings: 2moves_LT_1003.pgn
Length: 2 cycles, 40 games / engine
These 12 programs qualified from last round:
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Rating - Program - Version - Cores
2470 Jonny 4 [4c]
2485 NirvanaChess 1.3 [1c]
2499 Thinker 5.4d Active [4c]
2502 Arminius 2013-08-10 [4c]
2518 Frenzee 3.5.19 [1c]
2527 Bison 9.11 [1c]
2529 Bobcat 3.25 [4c]
2529 Dirty 20Apr2013 [1c]
2539 Fruit 2.3.1 [1c]
2547 Shredder Classic 4 [1c]
2562 DiscoCheck 5.0.1 [1c]
2671 Arasan 16.1 [4c]Code: Select all
Rating - Program - Version - Cores
2480 NirvanaChess 1.4 [1c]
2557 GnuChess 5.50 [1c]
2563 BugChess2 1.9 [4c]
2569 Cheng4 0.36a [4c]
2572 SmarThink 1.50 [1c]
2575 Arasan 16.2 [4c]
2580 DiscoCheck 5.1 [1c]
2580 DiscoCheck 5.2 [1c]
2583 Arasan 16.3 [4c]That's the 21 participating programs - the ones at the bottom at the end will get knocked out and not be part of the next round.
The tournament is a double round robin (420 games total), and time control will be 8 minutes + 4 seconds increment / move. The programs that support multiple cores are generally allowed to use 4 cores out of my 6 available. Hash is set fairly low - only 256 MB - for the same reason that 2 cores are unused: so that me using the computer while games are running won't interfere with the engines.
5 men Gaviota, Nalimov, Scorpio, Syzygy, and 4 men Shredder TBs/BBs are installed and enabled for the programs that support them (except those where TBs would sometimes cause crashes or problems).
I am using Lyudmil Tsvetkov's 2-move book ( http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50382 ) with the 3 extra positions, 1003 positions total, and with the return game using the same opening.
Suggestions for programs to include in the future are always welcome