85th Amateur Series Division 1

[Graham Banks]

85TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 1)

Intel i7 Quad
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
JDSelect2019.cgb book
40 moves in 25 minutes repeating
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 1CPU (64-bit where available)

The top engine will gain automatic promotion and the bottom engine will face automatic relegation. Any other changes of division will be at my discretion and may not necessarily involve playoff matches.

Standings after Round 36

28.0 - SugaR AI 1.50 64-bit
27.5 - Stockfish 13 64-bit
25.5 - ShashChess 16 64-bit
20.5 - Fire 8 64-bit
18.5 - SlowChess Blitz 2.5 64-bit
17.5 - Ethereal 12.75 64-bit
16.5 - Igel 2.9.0 64-bit
15.0 - RubiChess 2.0 64-bit
14.0 - Booot 6.5 64-bit
13.0 - Xiphos 0.6 64-bit
12.5 - RofChade 2.3 64-bit
7.5 - Nemorino 6.05 64-bit


Games and standings will be available after every six rounds from the following link:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... =7&t=12834

If you install TLCV (Tom's Live Chess Viewer) on your computer, you can watch the games live move by move. You'll also be able to chat to others following the tournament in the chatroom there.
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=42959
Host - GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port - 16094

Linux users can use Livius:
https://github.com/kmar/livius

There is also a Livius windows version.
It has live pv boards as a nice addition.
http://www.crabaware.com/livius/

[Graham Banks]

I am replaying the Nemorino 6.05 64-bit games, as I had the wrong files and set-up.

Thanks to Andres (RubiChess) for bringing this to my attention, and to Christian (Nemorino) for ensuring that I had all the correct files.

Even experienced testers can get things wrong sometimes.

[Graham Banks]

85TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 1)

Intel i7 Quad
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
JDSelect2019.cgb book
40 moves in 25 minutes repeating
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 1CPU (64-bit where available)

The top engine will gain automatic promotion and the bottom engine will face automatic relegation. Any other changes of division will be at my discretion and may not necessarily involve playoff matches.

Final Standings

33.5 - SugaR AI 1.50 64-bit
32.0 - Stockfish 13 64-bit
30.5 - ShashChess 16 64-bit
23.0 - SlowChess Blitz 2.5 64-bit
22.5 - Fire 8 64-bit
20.5 - Ethereal 12.75 64-bit
19.0 - Nemorino 6.05 64-bit
19.0 - Igel 2.9.0 64-bit
18.0 - RubiChess 2.0 64-bit
17.0 - Xiphos 0.6 64-bit
15.5 - Booot 6.5 64-bit
13.5 - RofChade 2.3 64-bit


The complete tournament pgn (zipped) can be downloaded here:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=48148

[Graham Banks]

Congratulations to Marco and team (SugaR) for winning the tournament.

Thanks to everybody who took an interest.