If the regular participants don't mind, I'm thinking about participating in this tournament with Rustic, after I add a transposition table to the engine (otherwise it won't be able to see further than about 7 ply in the middle game). I could run the engine twice; once on a 6700K (now at +/- 4 million NPS, without hashtable), or on a raspberry pi 4 (haven't tried it there yet). I also have an i3-6100 NUC, where the engine runs at +/- 2 million NPS; about half the speed of the 6700K. Everything is single threaded for now.Joost Buijs wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 3:06 pmIndeed, of course the PI engines of Marcel are missing since his passing, the PI engines of Folkert are missing too. At the moment Volker Annuss is the only one with his PI engine permanently online.
This is why I always keep a few engines running on a single core Intel atom which gives about the same performance as the RPI3 (between 0.5 and 1.0 mnps). It is also very handy to have a few engines permanently online for testing purposes.
The server runs under a Hyper-V virtual machine on a 6 core Intel machine, unfortunately the server software is not multi threaded, with a lot of participants (especially when it has to start a new series of games) it gets rather slow.
Is there an IRC channel or discord channel somewhere while the tournament is running or something, or do you just add the engine to the tournament with the above command and we wait until it finishes?
PS: In the first few attempts, I don't expect to finish anywhere but last