Grand Blitz Tournament: For Engines upto 1900

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swami
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Grand Blitz Tournament: For Engines upto 1900

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Hi All,

It's a round robin, with 101 engines in the tournament. So far, 21-22 rounds have been completed.

Conditions:

Quad J2900 processor
1+1 time control
Own opening book, else Noomen short book (of 5-7 moves) for engines that do not have opening book.
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Nice to see you posting again.
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Thanks, Ed. :-)

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Good to see a tourney with programs I can actually compete with and have a chance of winning.

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Thanks, Mark. :-)



After 31-32 Rounds (in 100 Rounds Marathon)

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If somebody has the following engines (the webhost no longer exists), I'd appreciate if you could share them. Thanks!

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Tyrell 1.02
FreechessII 2.17 
Golem 0.441 
Predateur 2.1
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After 41-42 Rounds:

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Nice to see you here again Swami.
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Post by Daniel Anulliero »

Very nice tournament !
It is plenty of "old timers" I used in my tests :wink:
And I see two of my old engines playing : Jars 1.75 and Yoda 2.09 :)
Good old time...
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Post by Henk »

I wonder how many people have created engines in the past.

For instance would it be more or less than 1000 or 10000 people ?