Fire In The Blackness

[Graham Banks]

FIRE IN THE BLACKNESS

Intel i7-4770k Quad
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
CCC2023.cgb book
40 moves in 16 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 36 rounds


Participants

Velvet 5.2.0 64-bit
Booot 7.1 64-bit
Houdini 6.03 64-bit
Fire 5192023 64-bit
Devre 4.0 64-bit
Black Marlin 7.0 64-bit
BlackCore 6.0 64-bit
Halogen 11 64-bit
SmallBrain 7.0 64-bit
Marvin 6.1.0 64-bit


Web based link for live viewing (courtesy of Jay - Berserk author).
http://tlcv.net/16092

Alternatively, if you install TLCV (Tom's Live Chess Viewer) on your computer, you can watch the games live move by move. You'll also be able to chat to others following the tournament in the chatroom there.
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=42959
Host - GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port - 16092

Linux users can use Livius:
https://github.com/kmar/livius

There is also a Livius windows version.
It has live pv boards as a nice addition.
http://www.crabaware.com/livius/

[Graham Banks]

FIRE IN THE BLACKNESS

Intel i7-4770k Quad
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
CCC2023.cgb book
40 moves in 16 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 36 rounds


Standings after Round 6

6.0 - Fire 5192023 64-bit
5.5 - Velvet 5.2.0 64-bit
5.0 - Halogen 11 64-bit
5.0 - BlackCore 6.0 64-bit
4.5 - Black Marlin 7.0 64-bit
4.5 - Booot 7.1 64-bit
4.0 - SmallBrain 7.0 64-bit
4.0 - Devre 4.0 64-bit
3.5 - Houdini 6.03 64-bit
3.0 - Marvin 6.1.0 64-bit


Web based link for live viewing (courtesy of Jay - Berserk author).
http://tlcv.net/16092

Alternatively, if you install TLCV (Tom's Live Chess Viewer) on your computer, you can watch the games live move by move. You'll also be able to chat to others following the tournament in the chatroom there.
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=42959
Host - GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port - 16092

Linux users can use Livius:
https://github.com/kmar/livius

There is also a Livius windows version.
It has live pv boards as a nice addition.
http://www.crabaware.com/livius/

[Graham Banks]

[pgn][Event "Fire In The Blackness"]
[Site "ChessGUI2"]
[Date "2023.05.28"]
[Round "2.3"]
[White "Fire 5192023 64-bit"]
[Black "SmallBrain 7.0 64-bit"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Time "5:19:16 PM"]
[ECO "C00"]
[Opening "Queen's Knight, French"]
[TimeControl "40/960:40/960:40/960"]
[PlyCount "27"]
[Number "8"]
[Termination "GUI adjudication"]
[WhiteType "program"]
[BlackType "program"]
[Variant "normal"]

{ Intel i7 Quad }
1.e4 {[%eval 0,1] [%emt 00:00:00]} e6 {[%eval 0,1] [%emt 00:00:00]}
2.Nc3 {[%eval 8,23] [%emt 00:00:34]} d5 {(d5) [%eval -10,23] [%emt 00:00:07]}
3.d4 {(d4) [%eval 9,24] [%emt 00:00:22]} Nf6 {(Bb4) [%eval -7,24] [%emt 00:00:04]}
4.Bg5 {(Bg5) [%eval 12,23] [%emt 00:01:03]} Be7 {(dxe4) [%eval -5,24] [%emt 00:00:09]}
5.e5 {(e5) [%eval -2,23] [%emt 00:00:29]} Nfd7 {(Nfd7) [%eval 0,24] [%emt 00:00:05]}
6.h4 {(Bxe7) [%eval 0,23] [%emt 00:00:17]} O-O {(Bxg5) [%eval -11,24] [%emt 00:00:08]}
7.Qg4 {(Qg4) [%eval 17,20] [%emt 00:00:09]} Kh8 {(f5) [%eval -11,24] [%emt 00:00:07]}
8.Nf3 {(O-O-O) [%eval 21,21] [%emt 00:00:12]} c5 {(c5) [%eval 22,23] [%emt 00:00:09]}
9.Bd3 {(Bxe7) [%eval 22,22] [%emt 00:00:12]} Nc6 {(f5) [%eval 14,22] [%emt 00:00:08]}
10.Bxh7 {(Bf4) [%eval 760,21] [%emt 00:00:14]} g6 {(Kxh7) [%eval -521,25] [%emt 00:00:52]}
11.Bxg6 {(h5) [%eval #12,25] [%emt 00:00:11]} fxg6 {(fxg6) [%eval -880,22] [%emt 00:00:51]}
12.h5 {(h5) [%eval #11,28] [%emt 00:00:02]} Nxd4 {(Ndxe5) [%eval -1266,21] [%emt 00:00:27]}
13.hxg6 {(hxg6) [%eval #7,21] [%emt 00:00:00]} Kg7 {(Kg7) [%eval -1450,20] [%emt 00:00:23]}
14.Rh7 {(Bxe7) [%eval #6,20] [%emt 00:00:00]}
1-0[/pgn]

[Graham Banks]

FIRE IN THE BLACKNESS

Intel i7-4770k Quad
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
CCC2023.cgb book
40 moves in 16 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 36 rounds


Standings after Round 18

10.5 - Velvet 5.2.0 64-bit
10.0 - Booot 7.1 64-bit
9.5 - Fire 5192023 64-bit
9.0 - Black Marlin 7.0 64-bit
9.0 - Marvin 6.1.0 64-bit
9.0 - Devre 4.0 64-bit
8.5 - Houdini 6.03 64-bit
8.5 - SmallBrain 7.0 64-bit
8.5 - Halogen 11 64-bit
7.5 - BlackCore 6.0 64-bit


Web based link for live viewing (courtesy of Jay - Berserk author).
http://tlcv.net/16092

Alternatively, if you install TLCV (Tom's Live Chess Viewer) on your computer, you can watch the games live move by move. You'll also be able to chat to others following the tournament in the chatroom there.
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=42959
Host - GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port - 16092

Linux users can use Livius:
https://github.com/kmar/livius

There is also a Livius windows version.
It has live pv boards as a nice addition.
http://www.crabaware.com/livius/

[Graham Banks]

FIRE IN THE BLACKNESS

Intel i7-4770k Quad
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
CCC2023.cgb book
40 moves in 16 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 36 rounds


Standings after Round 27

16.0 - Booot 7.1 64-bit
15.5 - Velvet 5.2.0 64-bit
14.5 - Fire 5192023 64-bit
13.5 - Houdini 6.03 64-bit
13.5 - Devre 4.0 64-bit
13.0 - SmallBrain 7.0 64-bit
12.5 - Marvin 6.1.0 64-bit
12.5 - Halogen 11 64-bit
12.0 - BlackCore 6.0 64-bit
12.0 - Black Marlin 7.0 64-bit


Web based link for live viewing (courtesy of Jay - Berserk author).
http://tlcv.net/16092

Alternatively, if you install TLCV (Tom's Live Chess Viewer) on your computer, you can watch the games live move by move. You'll also be able to chat to others following the tournament in the chatroom there.
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=42959
Host - GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port - 16092

Linux users can use Livius:
https://github.com/kmar/livius

There is also a Livius windows version.
It has live pv boards as a nice addition.
http://www.crabaware.com/livius/

[Graham Banks]

FIRE IN THE BLACKNESS

Intel i7-4770k Quad
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
CCC2023.cgb book
40 moves in 16 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 36 rounds


Final Standings

20.5 - Velvet 5.2.0 64-bit
19.0 - Booot 7.1 64-bit
19.0 - Fire 5192023 64-bit
18.5 - SmallBrain 7.0 64-bit
18.5 - Devre 4.0 64-bit
18.0 - Houdini 6.03 64-bit
18.0 - Halogen 11 64-bit
17.5 - Marvin 6.1.0 64-bit
16.0 - Black Marlin 7.0 64-bit
15.0 - BlackCore 6.0 64-bit


The complete tournament pgn (zipped) can be downloaded here:
https://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discus ... p?id=53383

[Graham Banks]

Congratulations to Martin (Velvet author) for winning this tournament.

Thanks to all who took an interest.
It was nice, as always, to see people visiting the broadcast.