On-line engine blitz tourney January

[hgm]

Now that the problems with the ICS, (which prevented completion of the November tourney and caused teh December tourney to be cancelled), seem to have been solved, I am happy to announce we are 'back in business':

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

Saturday January 14, 3pm Boston time (21:00 Amsterdam time)

(This assumes everyone is now off daylight-saving time.) To connect:

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

(for UCI engines, add -fUCI)

[jshriver]

Crossing fingers, praying, and general good will If there are any engines you'd like to see play I have some hardware I can toss in the mix.

Otherwise I look forward to watching as a spectator.
I still have my Raspberry Pi, w/ full screen xboard so I can chill on the couch, eat popcorn and watch lol.

-Josh

[hgm]

Well, all engines are welcome, and the more the merrier. I consider it one of the major successes of this tournament that it attracts engines of a very wide range of strengths, and not just a few top engines. This makes it challenging for every participant.

[flok]

I've got an rpi that I can run fairymax on if you like?
(I would like )

[Robert Pope]

Last tournament, we realized that Abbess wasn't kibitzing it's thinking. It is sending the PV to Winboard -- is there a flag I can enable to forward that, or do I need to implement a new command?

[hgm]

The -autoKibitz option is supposed to do that. It sends the last line of Thinking Output received from the engine before the engine moved to the ICS.

[Henk]

Doubt if I can get Skipper in a good state in time.

[pgn]
[Event "Computer Chess Game"]
[Site "HP"]
[Date "2017.01.11"]
[Round "-"]
[White "SkipperWinb"]
[Black "Henk"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[TimeControl "900"]
[Annotator "1. +0.14"]

1. Nc3 {+0.14/261} d5 2. d4 {+0.21/321 15} c5 3. e3 {+0.69/281 15} e6 4.
Nf3 {+0.57/261 14} Nc6 5. Ne5 {+0.30/301 14} Nxe5 6. dxe5 {+0.22/281 14} f5
7. b3 {+0.58/221 14} Ne7 8. g4 {+0.29/221 13} g6 9. f4 {+0.21/221 13} fxg4
10. Qxg4 {+0.01/261 13} Nf5 11. Bd3 {-0.10/241 13} Qa5 12. Bd2
{+0.11/321 13} c4 13. Bxf5 {+0.16/361 12} exf5 14. Qg2 {+0.30/341 12} Bc5
15. Nxd5 {+2.19/281 12} Qd8 16. Nf6+ {+1.49/241 12} Kf7 17. Qe2
{+2.09/261 12} Be6 18. bxc4 {+2.01/241 12} Qb6 19. O-O {+2.18/201 11} Rad8
20. Nd5 {+1.09/241 11} Bxd5 21. cxd5 {+1.05/301 11} Rxd5 22. Rfe1
{+1.05/261 11} Kg7 23. Bc3 {+1.22/261 10} Qe6 24. Reb1 {+1.23/261 10} b6
25. Bb4 {+1.25/321 10} Bxb4 26. Rxb4 {+1.25/321 10} Rhd8 27. Rab1
{+1.24/261 10} Rd2 28. Qc4 {+1.12/321 10} Qd5 29. Qxd5 {+1.23/361 10} R8xd5
30. Rc4 {+1.59/381 9} Re2 31. Rc7+ {+1.49/301 9} Kh6 32. e6 {+1.29/381 9}
Rdd2 33. e7 {+0.87/341 9} Rg2+ 34. Kh1 {+0.00/481 9} Rxh2+ 35. Kg1
{+0.00/481 9} Rhg2+ 36. Kf1 {+0.00/401 9} Rgf2+ 37. Kg1 {+0.00/281 9} Rg2+
38. Kf1 {+0.00/541 8} Rgf2+ 39. Ke1 {+0.00/481 8} Rfe2+ 40. Kf1
{+0.00/501 8} Rf2+
{XBoard adjudication: repetition draw} 1/2-1/2
[/pgn]

[flok]

ah please don't skip!

[Sven]

ah please don't skip!

Does Embla have a regular account already? I remember in the past there was only one for POS but not for Embla so you could not login with Embla.

[flok]

Most def!

At fics it is: emblasoftware

and at hgm's server: Embla