Rising Stars v Fading Warriors 2009-B

[Engin]

hi Graham!,

thank you very much for this tournament.

rising stars win, and i am happy that Tornado get this good result.

best wishes,
Engin

[Graham Banks]

hi Graham!,

thank you very much for this tournament.

rising stars win, and i am happy that Tornado get this good result.

best wishes,
Engin

Hi Engin,

Tornado is doing well, but still 10 rounds to go. Good luck and thanks for your continued work on developing Tornado.

Cheers,
Graham.

[beachknight]

I voted for the Fading Warriors.

Go FW go!

Best,

[Engin]

sorry,

i think the tournament was over, but i think will stay so until ending.

[Engin]

no Rising is the strongest team

[El Gringo]

hi Graham!,

thank you very much for this tournament.

rising stars win, and i am happy that Tornado get this good result.

best wishes,
Engin

Hi Engin,

I've played about 150 games with 3.02 now with good results.
Now i've started with 3.05 and results are very poor at the moment
-140 against Slowchess Blitz WV2.1
-85 against Pro Deo 1.6
Let's see at the end of the week...

Johan Havegheer
CEGT member

[Graham Banks]

RISING STARS v FADING WARRIORS 2009-B

Intel Q6600 Quad Core
ChessGUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
HS-Large Remis book (limited to 12 moves)
40 moves in 32 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
2 cycles 30 rounds
All engines 32-bit 1CPU


Standings after Round 25

16.5 - Tornado 3.02
16.0 - Hamsters 0.7.1
16.0 - Pharaon 3.5.1
14.0 - The Baron 2.23
13.5 - Aristarch 4.51
13.5 - ProDeo 1.6
12.5 - AnMon 5.66
12.5 - Tao 5.6
12.5 - Ufim 8.02
12.5 - SOS 5.1
12.0 - Chronos 1.9.6
11.0 - Arasan 11.3
11.0 - DanaSah 4.24
10.5 - Pepito 1.59
8.5 - Yace 0.99.87
7.5 - Hermann 2.4

100.5 - Rising Stars
99.5 - Fading Warriors

This tournament can be followed more closely from the link given, with games available for download after every round:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... f=7&t=4450

[Matthias Gemuh]

100.5 - Rising Stars
99.5 - Fading Warriors

Hi Graham,

this proves one more time that you know how to choose teams of equal strength

Matthias.

[Graham Banks]

100.5 - Rising Stars
99.5 - Fading Warriors

Hi Graham,

this proves one more time that you know how to choose teams of equal strength

Matthias.

It would be disastrous and much less interesting if the teams weren't of roughly equal strength.

[beachknight]

100.5 - Rising Stars
99.5 - Fading Warriors

Hi Graham,

this proves one more time that you know how to choose teams of equal strength

Matthias.

Yes. This is very close. I am certain that
FW will be the winners. This is math, after all!

Best,