The Clone Tournament

[Spock]

So happy that you benefit from my top tip Ray

Yes indeed, it looks like your tip was good. The first cycle (28 games) will be finished in about 24-36 hrs, and you may like the results so far

[David Dahlem]

Here's the final standings of my version of the clone tourney.

"5'+ 5", ponder off, 256MB hash, 56 games start with 1.d4, 56 games start with 1.e4.

1: Rybka 1.0 Beta 18.0/28
2: Glaurung 2.0.1 17.5/28
3: Fruit 2.3.1 14.5/28
4: Toga 3.1.2SE-Chekov 14.5/28
5: Frenzee-Feb08 14.5/28
6: Bright 0.2c 13.0/28
7: Spike 1.2 13.0/28
8: Naum 2.0 7.0/28

Regards
Dave

[Ovyron]

1: Rybka 1.0 Beta 18.0/28
2: Glaurung 2.0.1 17.5/28
3: Fruit 2.3.1 14.5/28

Thanks for the tourney. Are you going to release the PGN with the games?

[David Dahlem]

1: Rybka 1.0 Beta 18.0/28
2: Glaurung 2.0.1 17.5/28
3: Fruit 2.3.1 14.5/28

Thanks for the tourney. Are you going to release the PGN with the games?

Yes, you can get the pgn here ...

http://www.geocities.com/davedahlem/Clone_Tourney.zip

Fruit lost one game on time, 161 moves, but i think it was lost anyway.

Regards
Dave

[Eelco de Groot]

Thanks for running the tournament Dave!

I like the result of Glaurung 2.01 here, it did very well in second place. I think sometimes this Glaurung is running better on Intel processors than on Athlons... It is a fact I think it does very well on the Core 2 Duo from Intel that is also in Tord's development Mac. Was Rybka playing with the 64-bits version in your tourney?

Regards, Eelco

[David Dahlem]

Thanks for running the tournament Dave!

I like the result of Glaurung 2.01 here, it did very well in second place. I think sometimes this Glaurung is running better on Intel processors than on Athlons... It is a fact I think it does very well on the Core 2 Duo from Intel that is also in Tord's development Mac. Was Rybka playing with the 64-bits version in your tourney?

Regards, Eelco

No, 64-bits won't run on my system.

Regards
Dave

[Ovyron]

Yes, you can get the pgn here ...

http://www.geocities.com/davedahlem/Clone_Tourney.zip

Fruit lost one game on time, 161 moves, but i think it was lost anyway.

Thank you. Some people have been lately only caring about results but I think that chess is about the games (On the second round of my tourney I'm going to force some moves so it will be interesting to compare the games to yours when I force e4 or d4.)

Rybka BETA lost on time also on my tourney (against Naum), but that result will not count as it happened with a tablebase win for Rybka (if I had the 6 men tablebases Rybka would have not lost so it's unfair to score a loss) a win was adjudicated.

Also, I think I'm going to have the halfway results of my tourney ready today (Even when the games are short, the very few CPU time I have is getting in the way, that's why they're played at these very fast time controls.)

[David Dahlem]

Yes, you can get the pgn here ...

http://www.geocities.com/davedahlem/Clone_Tourney.zip

Fruit lost one game on time, 161 moves, but i think it was lost anyway.

Thank you. Some people have been lately only caring about results but I think that chess is about the games (On the second round of my tourney I'm going to force some moves so it will be interesting to compare the games to yours when I force e4 or d4.)

Rybka BETA lost on time also on my tourney (against Naum), but that result will not count as it happened with a tablebase win for Rybka (if I had the 6 men tablebases Rybka would have not lost so it's unfair to score a loss) a win was adjudicated.

Also, I think I'm going to have the halfway results of my tourney ready today (Even when the games are short, the very few CPU time I have is getting in the way, that's why they're played at these very fast time controls.)

I agree, chess is about the games, not about opening books or tablebases. I like to watch the games live, whenever possible. My time is limited, so it's rather difficult.

I always check the games for time losses, and adjucate when necessary.

Regards
Dave

[Ovyron]

Rybka BETA lost on time also on my tourney (against Naum), but that result will not count as it happened with a tablebase win for Rybka (if I had the 6 men tablebases Rybka would have not lost so it's unfair to score a loss) a win was adjudicated.

Sorry, I meant tableblase draw (A draw was adjudicated)

Meanwhile, here is the midway crosstable:

Note that I score draws as 0.45 to penalize the drawing engines (1 win is 0.1 better than two draws.)

10 means "Won with white, lost with black" etc.

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        1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8
1 TogaC .... 10   11   =1   10   0=   1=   11   9.35/14 (66.79%)
2 Glaur 10   .... 11   10   10   ==   11   01   8.90/14 (63.57%)
3 Rybka 00   00   .... 1=   =1   =1   =1   11   7.80/14 (55.71%)
4 Fruit 0=   10   =1   .... 10   11   10   0=   7.35/14 (52.50%)
5 Brigh 10   10   0=   10   .... 0=   11   1=   7.35/14 (52.50%)
6 Spike =1   ==   0=   00   =1   .... 10   =0   5.70/14 (40.71%)
7 Naum2 =0   00   0=   10   00   10   .... 11   4.90/14 (35.00%)
8 Frenz 00   01   00   =1   =0   1=   00   .... 4.35/14 (31.07%)

Current ratings:

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Rank Name                    Elo    +    - games score oppo. draws 
   1 Toga II 3.1.2SE Chekov 2842  139  126    14   68%  2737   21% 
   2 Glaurung 2.0.1         2828  140  130    14   64%  2739   14% 
   3 Rybka 1.0 Beta 32-bit  2780  127  123    14   57%  2746   29% 
   4 bright-0.2c            2768  130  128    14   54%  2747   21% 
   5 Fruit 2.3.1            2734  128  131    14   46%  2752   21% 
   6 Spike 1.2 Turin        2720  121  124    14   43%  2754   43% 
   7 Naum 2.0               2677  128  139    14   36%  2760   14% 
   8 Frenzee feb08          2652  126  139    14   32%  2764   21% 

The PGN will be available at the end of the tourney