On-line engine blitz tourney October

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Joost Buijs
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On-line engine blitz tourney October

Post by Joost Buijs »

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

Saturday October 14, 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.
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October

Post by Henk »

Skipper won't play. Hardly improvement since previous time. Other engines too strong in comparison to Skipper. Getting depressed of see-ing it loosing all the time.
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October

Post by Joost Buijs »

Henk wrote: Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:32 pm Skipper won't play. Hardly improvement since previous time. Other engines too strong in comparison to Skipper. Getting depressed of see-ing it loosing all the time.
I can imagine, the problem is that many of the weaker engines quit playing, and the ones that are playing usually have very strong hardware.
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October

Post by Joost Buijs »

Arasan came out on top above Belfish, Wasp ended third. A great performance by Arasan.

The tournament finished without problems, but there were some small issues though.
Prophet was fighting with Marvin games that suddenly popped up because he was on his follow list.
Nightmare crashed, and that didn't happen for years, strange because the program hasn't been touched for ages.
Rofchade resigned a game in a winning position by pressing F9 to skip something on Spotify, I wonder how this could have happened.

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:Tourney Players: Round 9 of 9 
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:     Name              Rating Score Perfrm Upset  Results 
:     ----------------- ------ ----- ------ ------ ------- 
:  1 +ArasanX           [2880]  7.0  [2958] [ 114] +16w +09w =04b =05b +10w =03w =02b +07w +11b 
:  2 +BelFish           [3000]  6.5  [2947] [   0] +13w =03w =07b =06w =08b +10b =01w +05w +09b 
:  3 +WaspX             [2851]  6.0  [2878] [ 171] +15w =02b =08w +11b =05w =01b =04w =06w +10b 
:  4 +rofChade          [2953]  5.5  [2829] [   0] +10b =07w =01w =09b +06b =05w =03b -11w +13w 
:  5 +NightmareX        [2916]  5.5  [2858] [  18] +11w +08w =06b =01w =03b =04b =07w -02b +14w 
:  6 +Goldbar           [2851]  5.5  [2757] [ 106] +12w +13b =05w =02b -04w =11b =09w =03b +17b 
:  7 +rpiRofChade       [2843]  5.5  [2756] [ 169] +14w =04b =02w =08b =09w +12w =05b -01b +15w 
:  8 +Marvin            [2789]  5.5  [2703] [ 163] +17w -05b =03b =07w =02w =09b =11w +18b +16b
:  9 +atomNightmare     [2679]  5.0  [2723] [ 360] +18w -01b +16w =04w =07b =08w =06b +12b -02w 
: 10 +WaDuuttie         [2554]  5.0  [2625] [  14] -04w +14b +12w +13b -01b -02w +18w +15b -03w 
: 11 +atomGoldbar       [2519]  5.0  [2705] [ 735] -05b +17w +15b -03w +14b =06w =08b +04b -01w 
: 12 +rpiArminius       [2302]  5.0  [2503] [   8] -06b +15w -10b +17w +16w -07b +14b -09w +18w 
: 13 +TheBaron          [2568]  4.5  [2507] [   0] -02b -06w +17b -10w +18b +14w =15b +16w -04b 
: 14 +CTdccc            [2244]  3.0  [2358] [  66] -07b -10w +18b +16b -11w -13b -12w +17w -05b 
: 15 +atomFloyd         [2244]  2.5  [2306] [ 228] -03b -12b -11w -18w +17b +16b =13w -10w -07b 
: 16 +Nameless          [2310]  1.5  [2190] [   0] -01b +18w -09b -14w -12b -15w =17b -13b -08w
: 17 +Prophet           [2225]  1.5  [2179] [  42] -08b -11b -13w -12b -15w +18b =16w -14b -06w 
: 18 +Barbarossa        [2185]  1.0  [2123] [  59] -09b -16b -14w +15b -13w -17w -10b -08w -12b 
:
:     Average Rating    2606.3
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October

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Prophet's issues were my fault really and didn't cause it any games. :-) It was a strong field. Still fun, thanks for hosting!
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October

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Henk wrote: Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:32 pm Skipper won't play. Hardly improvement since previous time. Other engines too strong in comparison to Skipper. Getting depressed of see-ing it loosing all the time.
Don't quit! The solution is to get others to join in. Not every engine will be a world beater, and that's OK. Just try to be better than yesterday.
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October

Post by Henk »

No money if it can't beat Stockfish. So waste of time.
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney October

Post by jswaff »

Henk wrote: Mon Oct 16, 2023 11:26 am No money if it can't beat Stockfish. So waste of time.
If you're in this for money, I'd have to agree you are wasting your time.

If you are in it for fun, to learn, or for the camaraderie, then don't worry so much. Just keep trying to improve and enjoy your hobby.

Just my $0.015.