On-line engine blitz tourney June

[Joost Buijs]

The monthly online engine blitz tournament for June will take place on:

Saturday, June 7, 2:00 PM EST (Boston time) 20:00 CET (Amsterdam time)

To connect, use the following command:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz -keepAlive 30
(For UCI engines, add -fUCI)

If you don’t have an account, please submit a request to admin@nightmare-chess.nl.

Our tournament manager will be Eendje (Lisebeth @ ICC).

The format will be 9 rounds, Swiss system, 5/1 time control.

Lisebeth prefers to start the tournament on the hour, so please log in 15 minutes early. Late entries are not supported.

[Joost Buijs]

Wasp won the tournament, congratulations!
Arasan became second with the highest TPR of all players, not so bad either.
Nightmare ended on the third place.

There were some weird connection problems, especially Gideon dropped out many times during the tournament, while Feligres using the same connection and IP-address had no problems at all.

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:Tourney Players: Round 9 of 9 
:
:     Name              Rating Score Perfrm Upset  Results 
:     ----------------- ------ ----- ------ ------ ------- 
:  1 +WaspX             [2860]  7.5  [2909] [  30] +14w +11w +09b =03w +08b =02w =04b +05w +12b 
:  2 +ArasanX           [2890]  7.0  [2937] [   0] +13w +16w =07b =04w =03b =01b +09w +08w +11b 
:  3 +NightmareX        [2891]  6.5  [2882] [   0] +10w +09w =12b =01b =02w =04w +08b +11b =07w 
:  4 +Goldbar           [2831]  6.0  [2734] [  73] +15w -12w +14b =02b +17w =03b =01w =07b +13w 
:  5 +Isa               [2229]  5.5  [2601] [1042] =07b =13w +19b =11w -16b +17b +10w -01b +14w 
:  6 +atomFloyd         [2155]  5.5  [2468] [ 718] -09b +20w +22b -08w =10b +15b -11w +21b +16w 
:  7 +Marvin            [2799]  5.0  [2649] [ 107] =05w +10b =02w =12b =09w =11w =13b =04w =03b 
:  8 +PatriciaRB        [2739]  5.0  [2566] [   0] +18w +17w -16b +06b -01w +12b -03w -02b +19w
:  9 +atomNightmare     [2683]  5.0  [2594] [  58] +06w -03b -01w +15b =07b +16w -02b =12w +21w 
: 10 +Dirty             [2389]  5.0  [2359] [   0] -03b -07w +21b +18w =06w =13b -05b +15w +22b 
: 11 +Lunar             [2616]  4.5  [2519] [  91] +19w -01b +18w =05b =12w =07b +06b -03w -02w 
: 12 +Viper             [2535]  4.5  [2676] [ 772] +22w +04b =03w =07w =11b -08w =16b =09b -01w 
: 13 +EveAnn            [2378]  4.5  [2523] [ 366] -02b =05b =17w +20w +14b =10w =07w =16b -04b 
: 14 +Ares              [2369]  4.5  [2355] [  25] -01b +19w -04w +22b -13w +18b +20b =17w -05b 
: 15 +CTdccc            [2271]  4.5  [2303] [ 148] -04b +22w =20b -09w +18b -06w +21w -10b +17b 
: 16 +atomGoldbar       [2640]  4.0  [2418] [  99] +20w -02b +08w -17b +05w -09b =12w =13w -06b
: 17 +Arminius          [2419]  4.0  [2344] [ 221] +21w -08b =13b +16w -04b -05w +19b =14b -15w 
: 18 +rpiArminius       [2173]  3.5  [2200] [   0] -08b +21w -11b -10b -15w -14w +22b =19w +20w 
: 19 +feligres          [2139]  3.5  [2202] [  20] -11b -14b -05w +21w +20b +22w -17w =18b -08b 
: 20 +Barbarossa        [2142]  2.5  [2051] [  64] -16b -06b =15w -13b -19w +21b -14w +22w -18b 
: 21 +Skiull            [1908]  1.0  [1955] [ 123] -17b -18b -10w -19b +22w -20w -15b -06w -09b 
: 22 -gideon            [2031]  0.0  [1831] [   0] -12b -15b -06w -14w -21b -19b -18w -20b -10w 
:
:     Average Rating    2458.5 

[Lunar]

Was sixth after 8 rounds, but that last round against Arasan did me in... Still, top half in Lunar's first outing in this tourney so that's pretty good in my book!

[Joost Buijs]

Was sixth after 8 rounds, but that last round against Arasan did me in... Still, top half in Lunar's first outing in this tourney so that's pretty good in my book!

Lunar did pretty good indeed. I watched some of it's games, it has a very nice attacking style. Usually the few top engines are hard to beat because they run on big hardware (with 64 cores being no exception), losing to one of them is nothing to be ashamed of.

[Rebel]

There were some weird connection problems, especially Gideon dropped out many times during the tournament, while Feligres using the same connection and IP-address had no problems at all.

Any idea who the Gideon author is?

[Joost Buijs]

There were some weird connection problems, especially Gideon dropped out many times during the tournament, while Feligres using the same connection and IP-address had no problems at all.

Any idea who the Gideon author is?

Yes, the author seems to be you.

finger gideon:

1: Mephisto Gideon Professional (1993)
2: Programmed by Ed Schroeder
3: Owner: bjoern
4: Running on i5-2500, Single Threaded, 4 GHz, 4 GByte Ram
5: Ponder off, no resign, abort, draw offers can be accepted
6: Uses Mephisto's own book

Bjoern is also a user on Talkchess, the author of Feligres.

[Rebel]

There were some weird connection problems, especially Gideon dropped out many times during the tournament, while Feligres using the same connection and IP-address had no problems at all.

Any idea who the Gideon author is?

Yes, the author seems to be you.

finger gideon:

1: Mephisto Gideon Professional (1993)
2: Programmed by Ed Schroeder
3: Owner: bjoern
4: Running on i5-2500, Single Threaded, 4 GHz, 4 GByte Ram
5: Ponder off, no resign, abort, draw offers can be accepted
6: Uses Mephisto's own book

Bjoern is also a user on Talkchess, the author of Feligres.

Surprise there.

I think it should work provided the engine was properly announced at the server.

[Joost Buijs]

Surprise there.

I think it should work provided the engine was properly announced at the server.

You have to ask Bjoern, I really don't have a clue what the problem was. Gideon lost connection with the server many times, maybe Gideon was running on a bad WiFi connection, but it could also be a protocol error that made Gideon crash.