On-line engine blitz tourney September

[Modern Times]

Great tournament. Good win by Texel, strong engine on strong hardware which is awesome to see. Watching engines flex their muscles on powerful hardware is what got me into chess all those years ago.

[Daniel Anulliero]

It was a very funny tournament , with some new participants
Isa performed very badly this time with unluckiest lost against Skipper ( a pawn rooks ending) , a moment Isa had a good pawn structure against two doubled and two isolated but no win ...
I think 9 games was not sufficent with 32 participants , 11 was a good option
All the best
Dany

[hgm]

Nine rounds is supposed to be enough for up to 128 players.

We could consider using the MacMahon system instead of normal Swiss, however. (I would have to program this in mamer, but that seems rather trivial.) The idea here is that you start the players not with zero points, but with a number of points determined by their rating. E.g. All title candidates start with 4 points, (tonot give them unfair chances), and then it tails off to 0 points for the weakest participants. That way you start playing interesting opponents immediately, instead of needing 2-3 rounds to seperate out the fieldby strength.

[Henk]

Yes bad luck. Skipper can't even win from fairy-max. So I think Skipper suffered a regression. In the land of the blind.

[pkumar]

Is there a link to tournament rules and method of participation?

[hgm]

Not really. The method of participation is described in the leading post of this thread: You just connect to the ICS in the described way well in advance of the starting time, so you are present when the tourney starts, to join your engine to it with the command "mam join 1". And keep an eye on your engine during the tourney (which is usually over within 2.5 hours) so you can interfere in case of disconnects or engine crashes.

In principle everyone is welcome with as many engines as he likes, provided that all participating engines are sufficiently different. (I.e. not versions of the same engine, or very close derivatives, perhaps unless the second version runs on vastly inferior hardware, like Raspberry Pi.)

[Maarten Claessens]

... and you need a (computer-)account to log in with on the server.

[Henk]

And the idea of losing from Skipper can be unbearable,

[hgm]

... and you need a (computer-)account to log in with on the server.

Ah yes, forgot to mention that. Although in principle, when you would be there logged in as a guest under a sensible name I could upgrade the account on the fly. (It would just cause an annoying delay in the start of the tourney if I would have to do that for many people.)

[Daniel Anulliero]

And the idea of losing from Skipper can be unbearable,

Not at all . I play tournaments with my engine(s) since 2005 ( chesswar , wbec ridderkerk etc...)
I Started with a 1400 elo engine , so , losing games is not a problem , but sometimes , not much luck is a lot disapointing ...
At the end , chess is just a game , hope we can improve our engines for the next month . Actually I rewrite my eval for the 100th time may be