XiangQi Clash 2010 (live engine tournament)

[hgm]

I just started this tournament, with the round-robin of qualifier group A. This group contains the strongest seeds, which will battle each other for 3 places (of 4) in the play-offs.

The 8 engines seeded in group A are:

1. Chess3D 0.92
2. Binghewusi 2.44
3. BugChess 0.1d5
4. Cyclone 1.01
5. EyChessU 1.833e
6. Kou 0.1.3
7. Saola 1.7w
8. YSSY

The qualifier groups will be played top-down. When we finish group D, the engines will be re-grouped base on their results in the qualifiers, and the resulting divisions will be played bottom-up.

The games can be followed live on my website, at:

http://80.100.28.169/xq/battle.html

where standings and cross table can also be viewed, and a PGN file with games can be downloaded.

[hgm]

Qualifier group A has completed; I will open a new thread in the tournament section to discuss the results.