On-line engine blitz tourney March

[Joost Buijs]

The monthly on-line engine blitz tourney for March will take place on:

Saturday March 11, 2:00 PM EST (Boston time), 20:00 CET (Amsterdam time)

To connect:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz -keepAlive 30

(for UCI engines, add -fUCI)

People without account can submit a request for an account to admin@nightmare-chess.nl

Our tournament manager will be: Eendje (Lisebeth at ICC)

The format will be: 9 rounds Swiss 5/1

Lisebeth likes to start the tournament on top of the hour, please try to be on-line 15 minutes prior to tournament start, late joins are not supported.

[chrisw]

The monthly on-line engine blitz tourney for March will take place on:

Saturday March 11, 2:00 PM EST (Boston time), 20:00 CET (Amsterdam time)

To connect:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz -keepAlive 30

(for UCI engines, add -fUCI)

People without account can submit a request for an account to admin@nightmare-chess.nl

Our tournament manager will be: Eendje (Lisebeth at ICC)

The format will be: 9 rounds Swiss 5/1

Lisebeth likes to start the tournament on top of the hour, please try to be on-line 15 minutes prior to tournament start, late joins are not supported.

Great! When is good time to get some test games in, to make sure the ponder problem is solved? And against which opponents?

[Joost Buijs]

Usually the server is online 24/7, the last month it was a few times offline because I had to make several changes to the network. I also moved to another electrical grid which gave some additional outages, most of this is finished now.

You can play against atomNightmare or atomGoldbar by issuing the command 'match player 5 1',
or if you want to play unrated 'match player 5 1 u'.
These engines are a lot weaker than CSTal on 64 cores, but strong enough to check whether the pondering bug is gone or not.

[chrisw]

Usually the server is online 24/7, the last month it was a few times offline because I had to make several changes to the network. I also moved to another electrical grid which gave some additional outages, most of this is finished now.

You can play against atomNightmare or atomGoldbar by issuing the command 'match player 5 1',
or if you want to play unrated 'match player 5 1 u'.
These engines are a lot weaker than CSTal on 64 cores, but strong enough to check whether the pondering bug is gone or not.

No luck ......

fics% match atomgoldbar u 5 1
You may only match players with their tournament variable set.
fics% match atomnightmare u 5 1
You may only match players with their tournament variable set.
fics% match pos u 5 1
You may only match players with their tournament variable set.
fics%

fics% match atomnightmare 5 1 u
You may only match players with their tournament variable set.
fics%

[Modern Times]

Leave off the 'u' and try that.

[chrisw]

Usually the server is online 24/7, the last month it was a few times offline because I had to make several changes to the network. I also moved to another electrical grid which gave some additional outages, most of this is finished now.

You can play against atomNightmare or atomGoldbar by issuing the command 'match player 5 1',
or if you want to play unrated 'match player 5 1 u'.
These engines are a lot weaker than CSTal on 64 cores, but strong enough to check whether the pondering bug is gone or not.

No luck ......

fics% match atomgoldbar u 5 1
You may only match players with their tournament variable set.
fics% match atomnightmare u 5 1
You may only match players with their tournament variable set.
fics% match pos u 5 1
You may only match players with their tournament variable set.
fics%

fics% match atomnightmare 5 1 u
You may only match players with their tournament variable set.
fics%

fics% match atomnightmare 5 1
You may only match players with their tournament variable set.
fics%

[Modern Times]

So the ICS thinks that you are currently playing in a tournament. Normally mamer sets your tournament variable to OFF at the end of a tournament. Maybe you can set it yourself, such as "set tourn off"

[Joost Buijs]

Indeed, your tourney flag is still set, probably because you left the last tournament before it finished. Obviously a bug in mamer or in the server software, it doesn't seem to allow changing flags of a player who is not online.

'set tourney 0' or 'set tourney off' should do the trick.

[chrisw]

Indeed, your tourney flag is still set, probably because you left the last tournament before it finished. Obviously a bug in mamer or in the server software, it doesn't seem to allow changing flags of a player who is not online.

'set tourney 0' or 'set tourney off' should do the trick.

That Ponder bug lives on! Okay, I will try with tourney 0 …..

[chrisw]

I think it works but I have to do a lot of messing around to get past the extremely annoying Winboard overwrite of Hash/Threads/Ponder options. As far as I can tell, it has a special ini file somewhere (not polyglot.ini) which overrides everything and force sets those variables. Short of finding where that ini file is, the fix is to let Winboard think it did the override, but decline to actually do it - this means a special executable for FICS.