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Daniel Anulliero wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:26 am

I'll participate with my new Isa , If I don't miss its at 20h00 instead of 21h00

Yes, since a few months the tourney starts at 20:00 instead of 21:00, this is more convenient for the tourney manager.

Henk is very eager to play the new Isa.

The monthly on-line engine blitz tourney for January will take place on: Saturday January 18, 2:00 PM EST (Boston time), 20:00 CET (Amsterdam time) To connect: winboard -zp -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz (for UCI engines, add -fUCI )...

From a recent online game: 5rk1/5pp1/pQ3n1p/2P5/2pP4/P1Nb2P1/1B3PKP/4r3 w - - Black's King is in some distress, but on the other hand, White has a couple of passers. It is even, but White has to play the somewhat unintuitive g4! here. Stockfish and Houdini are very fast on this but other engines ma...

Minic seems to do 1.9 mnps at the start position with a single thread on a 4.4 GHz. cpu and that is somewhat slow. It could be false sharing, but with lazy-smp (besides the TT) you hardly share anything. What I don't get is that TCEC lets engines run on 176 threads on 88 core hardware, hyperthreadin...

Perft 6 of start pos in 4.7sec, so move gen + copy make at 25Mnps .... probably not the issue Pure eval (during texel tuning) at 2.7Mnps, this is probably a bit slow maybe Standard search on same hardware is at 1.9Mnps A perft of 25 mnps on the start position without bulk counting seems about right...

Funny thing is that atomNightmare (an old version of Nightmare running single core on a J3455) ended well above it's 30 times faster big brother. It shows that in a Swiss tournament with very little rounds everything is possible. Some engines were missing (like all HGM's engines to name a few), some...

Tournament results: Arasan managed to get the same score as Belfish (Stockfish derivative) and the highest TPR, well done! :Tourney Players: Round 9 of 9 : : Name Rating Score Perfrm Upset Results : ----------------- ------ ----- ------ ------ ------- : 1 +BelFish [3071] 7.0 [2879] [ 0] +08w +05w =1...

JVMerlino wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 21, 2019 5:12 pm

Hi Joost,

Myrddin will be logged on but I won't be available when the tournament starts. Can you join Myrddin for me, please?

Thanks!
jm

Hi, sorry I missed this. I didn't see Myrddin online otherwise I would have joined it.

The monthly on-line engine blitz tourney for December will take place on: Saturday December 21, 2:00 PM EST (Boston time), 20:00 CET (Amsterdam time) To connect: winboard -zp -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz (for UCI engines, add -fUCI...

In Nightmare the rule to allow nullmove is: at least one king-move plus a move with another piece (not a pawn) to a square that is not attacked by the opponent. Nightmare does not solve Jons position either and goes for a repetition draw, it solves the position of John (Kf4) after 54 seconds at 33 p...