103rd Amateur Series Division 1

[Graham Banks]

103RD AMATEUR SERIES (Division 1)

AMD Ryzen 5950x
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
6 piece tablebases
Ponder off
LowDraw1000.cgb book (restricted to 8 moves depth)
12 minutes with 8 second increments.
6 cycles 66 rounds
All engines 1CPU (64-bit where available)

The top engine will gain automatic promotion and the bottom engine will face automatic relegation. Any other changes of division will be at my discretion and may not necessarily involve playoff matches.

Participants

Stockfish 16 64-bit
Berserk 11.1 64-bit
CS Tal 2.0 64-bit
RubiChess 20230918 64-bit
Koivisto 9.0 64-bit
Igel 3.5.0 64-bit
Rebel EAS 64-bit
Clover 6.0 64-bit
Caissa 1.12 64-bit
SlowChess Blitz 2.9 64-bit (promoted)
Seer 2.6.0 64-bit
Rofchade 3.0 64-bit (promoted)


Web based link for live viewing (courtesy of Jay - Berserk author).
https://ccrl.live/16064

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 - 16064

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/

[Jouni]

Hi Graham. Why You play with outdated Berserk, Koivisto? And Stockfish? Must be "official release" I quess.

[Graham Banks]

Hi Graham. Why You play with outdated Berserk, Koivisto? And Stockfish? Must be "official release" I quess.

Correct.

[Chessqueen]

103RD AMATEUR SERIES (Division 1)

AMD Ryzen 5950x
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
6 piece tablebases
Ponder off
LowDraw1000.cgb book (restricted to 8 moves depth)
12 minutes with 8 second increments.
6 cycles 66 rounds
All engines 1CPU (64-bit where available)

The top engine will gain automatic promotion and the bottom engine will face automatic relegation. Any other changes of division will be at my discretion and may not necessarily involve playoff matches.

Participants

Stockfish 16 64-bit
Berserk 11.1 64-bit
CS Tal 2.0 64-bit
RubiChess 20230918 64-bit
Koivisto 9.0 64-bit
Igel 3.5.0 64-bit
Rebel EAS 64-bit
Clover 6.0 64-bit
Caissa 1.12 64-bit
SlowChess Blitz 2.9 64-bit (promoted)
Seer 2.6.0 64-bit
Rofchade 3.0 64-bit (promoted)


Web based link for live viewing (courtesy of Jay - Berserk author).
https://ccrl.live/16064

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 - 16064

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/

You can actually restrict the the same opening to 4 moves depth and obtain the same result, but each engine will be forced to do their own search and get a better feeling of which engine is really stronger. Also the time control could be just 10 to 15 seconds increments without any initial minutes

[Graham Banks]

I'm happy with both the 8 move limit (actually 11 ply with the book being used), plus the time control being used.

[Chessqueen]

I'm happy with both the 8 move limit (actually 11 ply with the book being used), plus the time control being used.

I just played 2 games using the same ChessGUI using identical 2 engines with the same opening that you are using, but the 2nd game I decided to duplicate the same opening as the previous game and only used 15 seconds increments without any initial minutes and restricted the same opening to only 4 moves depth and got an identical game move by move

[Graham Banks]

I'm happy with both the 8 move limit (actually 11 ply with the book being used), plus the time control being used.

I just played 2 games using the same ChessGUI using identical 2 engines with the same opening that you are using, but the 2nd game U decided to only use 15 seconds increments with any initial minutes and restricted the same opening to only 4 moves depth and got an identical game move by move

The time control I'm using was recommended by Larry, as being close to the 40 moves in 11 minutes repeating that I was previously using.

[Chessqueen]

I'm happy with both the 8 move limit (actually 11 ply with the book being used), plus the time control being used.

I just played 2 games using the same ChessGUI using identical 2 engines with the same opening that you are using, but the 2nd game U decided to only use 15 seconds increments with any initial minutes and restricted the same opening to only 4 moves depth and got an identical game move by move

The time control I'm using was recommended by Larry, as being close to the 40 moves in 11 minutes repeating that I was previously using.

It is great recommendation by Mr. Larry, but I just played 2 games using the same ChessGUI using identical 2 engines with the same opening that you are using, but the 2nd game I decided to duplicate the same opening as the previous game and only used 15 seconds increments without any initial minutes and restricted the same opening to only 4 moves depth and got an identical game move by move

[Chessqueen]

I'm happy with both the 8 move limit (actually 11 ply with the book being used), plus the time control being used.

I just played 2 games using the same ChessGUI using identical 2 engines with the same opening that you are using, but the 2nd game U decided to only use 15 seconds increments with any initial minutes and restricted the same opening to only 4 moves depth and got an identical game move by move

The time control I'm using was recommended by Larry, as being close to the 40 moves in 11 minutes repeating that I was previously using.

It is great recommendation by Mr. Larry, but I just played 2 games using the same ChessGUI using identical 2 engines with the same opening that you are using, but the 2nd game I decided to duplicate the same opening as the previous game and only used 15 seconds increments without any initial minutes and restricted the same opening to only 4 moves depth and got an identical game move by move

I realized that I made the mistake of duplicating the first 8 moves which were played in the previous game instead of the 1st 4 moves, but with the different time control it made all the rest of the moves identical.

[Ciekce]

It is great recommendation by Mr. Larry, but I just played 2 games using the same ChessGUI using identical 2 engines with the same opening that you are using, but the 2nd game I decided to duplicate the same opening as the previous game and only used 15 seconds increments without any initial minutes and restricted the same opening to only 4 moves depth and got an identical game move by move

wow an entire 1 game sample size, so representative