CSVN Programmers' Tournaments May 2014

[Henk]

What are the minimum winboard commands that I have to implement to run a match or tournament.

[hgm]

new, go, force (in addition to Chess moves) should do it, if you ignore the rest, and hard-code the engine's time-control setting for the time you want to run the tournament at, and let it keep track of the tme it used by itself.

Better to also implement 'time' and 'level', though, so you can also use other TC, and prevent the clocks from getting out of sync by using the GUI's clock.

[xmas79]

There was a time in which my fingers on vi were faster than on firefox...

[xmas79]

...but backward compatibility is sort of sacred.

World changes and evolves, and engines get stronger and stronger. Why keep old elephants and make brand new engine champions (like mine) rest because of that?

[hgm]

I think there is more wisdom in: "If it ain't broken, don't fix it".

The setboard command works fine, and could not possibly work better.

Breaking the vast majority of engines for a change that does not open any new possibility whatsoever, doesn't seem a good idea. (If you have no commercial interest in selling new engines, that is.)

[Henk]

new, go, force (in addition to Chess moves) should do it, if you ignore the rest, and hard-code the engine's time-control setting for the time you want to run the tournament at, and let it keep track of the tme it used by itself.

Better to also implement 'time' and 'level', though, so you can also use other TC, and prevent the clocks from getting out of sync by using the GUI's clock.

What does the final score mean. For instance 0-7-3.

[hgm]

wins - losses - draws

[mvk]

The Baron has won the 46th CSVN Programmer's Tournament in Leiden. Congratulations Richard!

Code: Select all

No. PNo. Name              Score   WP    SB
-------------------------------------------
 1.   5  The Baron           6.0 22.0 17.00
 2.   4  Arasan              5.0 23.0 15.00
 3.   3  Dirty               4.5 23.5 11.75
      7  Rookie              4.5 23.5 11.50
 5.   6  DBP/PuppetMaster    3.5 24.5  8.50
 6.   8  The King            2.5 25.5  4.25
 7.   1  Spartacus           2.0 26.0  4.00
 8.   2  Kallisto            0.0 28.0  0.00

Hardware details here: 46th PT 2014 Leiden: List of participants.

Games here: PT46.pgn.bz2.

The next Leiden event will probably be held in the last weekend of October. Official announcement will follow soon. Also next time we plan to pair it with an Internet warm-up tournament.

Thanks to all participating!

[Gerd Isenberg]

The Baron has won the 46th CSVN Programmer's Tournament in Leiden. Congratulations Richard!

Code: Select all

No. PNo. Name              Score   WP    SB
-------------------------------------------
 1.   5  The Baron           6.0 22.0 17.00
 2.   4  Arasan              5.0 23.0 15.00
 3.   3  Dirty               4.5 23.5 11.75
      7  Rookie              4.5 23.5 11.50
 5.   6  DBP/PuppetMaster    3.5 24.5  8.50
 6.   8  The King            2.5 25.5  4.25
 7.   1  Spartacus           2.0 26.0  4.00
 8.   2  Kallisto            0.0 28.0  0.00

Hardware details here: 46th PT 2014 Leiden: List of participants.

Games here: PT46.pgn.bz2.

The next Leiden event will probably be held in the last weekend of October. Official announcement will follow soon. Also next time we plan to pair it with an Internet warm-up tournament.

Thanks to all participating!

Congrats to Richard as well!

One question for Folkert about PuppetMaster, what were the seven engines running on each of the seven RPIs?

Thanks,
Gerd

[flok]

Congrats to Richard as well!

One question for Folkert about PuppetMaster, what were the seven engines running on each of the seven RPIs?

Thanks,
Gerd

Gerd,

The Udoo was running a program of myself: it coordinates the selection of moves etc and the communication with the rpi's.
The rpis ran:
# node1: bikjump
# node2: gnuchess
# node3: fruit
# node4: toga2
# node5: stockfish
# node6: minkochess
# node7: arasan