The Demolisher

[Engin]

very sad results

[Guenther]

very sad results :-(

Only if you just look at the standing. Actually there is only a small gap of 2.5 points between place 5 and 15 out of 16 programs.

[lucasart]

THE DEMOLISHER

Intel i5 Quad
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
SALC500-2017.cgb book
40 moves in 25 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
2 cycles 30 rounds


Final Standings

20.0 - Deuterium 14.3.34.130 64-bit
18.5 - MinkoChess 1.3 64-bit
18.0 - ChessBrainVB 3.31
16.5 - Rodent III 0.172 64-bit
15.5 - Atlas 3.80 64-bit
15.0 - DisasterArea 1.65 64-bit
15.0 - Gaviota 1.0 64-bit
14.5 - Quazar 0.4 64-bit
14.0 - Amoeba 2.5 64-bit
14.0 - Dirty 30Apr2017 64-bit
14.0 - Toga II 3.0
13.5 - Nemo 1.0.1 64-bit
13.5 - EXchess 7.97b 64-bit
13.5 - Demolito 2017-06-18
13.0 - Tornado 8.0 64-bit
11.5 - Scorpio 2.7.7 64-bit


The complete tournament pgn (zipped) can be downloaded here:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=39993

Thanks for running these tests. Demolito wasn't very inspired this time.

Perhaps the time management is the problem. I never use tournament tc; always fischer clock. I'll have a look at what I can do for tournament tc.

Also, perhaps Demolito needs pawn storms in the eval, to better manage these opposite castling situations. My testing positions don't favor opposite castling (or anything in particular), just some 5 ply quasi random openings (filtered to be within +/-0.5 pawn).