On-line engine blitz tourney October

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hgm
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On-line engine blitz tourney October

Post by hgm »

The monthly on-line engine blitz tourney for October will take place on:

Saturday October 22, 3pm Boston daylight saving time (21:00 Amsterdam time)

Note that I am not sure whether Boston is actually still on DST, Saturday. If not, it starts an our later. To connect:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost winboard.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz

(for UCI engines, add -fUCI)
Daniel Anulliero
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October

Post by Daniel Anulliero »

Good new :)
My favourite monthly event !
I have a new version to test !
Best
Dany
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October

Post by Henk »

Yes only opportunity to do the Skipper test if you are (un)lucky.
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October

Post by Daniel Anulliero »

Henk wrote:Yes only opportunity to do the Skipper test if you are (un)lucky.
Well ...
1680 games showed a 130 elo improvement since the last version of Isa , may be we can meet some strongers engines than yours .. more interesting for me :wink:
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October

Post by Henk »

It's the punishment for losing first few games. (playing against Skipper)
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October

Post by brtzsnr »

Hi, HGM!

I'm currently traveling so I started xboard on a compute engine instance. Please join zurichess as I will not have access to internet on Saturday.
tttony
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October

Post by tttony »

Excelent!!! Now that I have again internet I will test the "rewrite" of Skiull, but it's a lot weaker now :oops:
flok

Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October

Post by flok »

Embla is armed and ready to participate!
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October

Post by ZirconiumX »

Could you give me a dedicated Dorpsgek(C) account, please, HGM?

Otherwise I'll just use ZirconiumX again.
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October

Post by brianr »

Tinker will be available on the server if someone would like to spoof it to join the tournament. I will be away today...