On-line engine blitz tourney September

[Joost Buijs]

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

Saturday September 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.

[amanjpro]

Excited... Zahak with lots of CPUs will be there

[flok]

If the hardware keeps up (SD card is fragile), micah-gb will participate.
A special cluster version running on 4 rpi zeros and a 3.
Very weak.

For fun & kicks I'll put Pos on-line as well.

[R. Tomasi]

I just wrote an email to get an account. If everything works out, Pygmalion will get it's baptism of fire I am pretty sure that it will be ranked last, but so what? Time to start playing real games!

[Joost Buijs]

Arasan got the top spot, Nightmare came in second, Marvin, atomNightmare and Arminius ended 3th.
After the 2nd round mhouppin logged off and never came back, resulting in a series of losses.
Several regulars were missing, including the engines of Harm Geert. Hopefully they will be back next month.
See you all next time!

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:Tourney Players: Round 9 of 9 
:
:     Name              Rating Score Perfrm Upset  Results 
:     ----------------- ------ ----- ------ ------ ------- 
:  1 +ArasanX           [2830]  7.5  [2928] [  65] +11w +04b +03w =02b +06w +07w =08b =05w +12b 
:  2 +NightmareX        [2923]  7.0  [2870] [   0] +14w +13w +21b =01w =07b +03w =04b =06w +08b 
:  3 +Marvin            [2743]  6.0  [2728] [  53] +16w +05w -01b =08w +12b -02b +15w +09w =06b 
:  4 +atomNightmare     [2603]  6.0  [2637] [ 400] +19b -01w +15w +11b =17w =06b =02w =07b +13w 
:  5 +Arminius          [2549]  6.0  [2533] [ 277] +23w -03b +18b -12w +11w +10b +17w =01b =07w 
:  6 +Schooner          [2849]  5.5  [2731] [  37] +10w =09w +13b =07w -01b =04w +14b =02b =03w 
:  7 +Goldbar           [2824]  5.5  [2726] [  61] +15w +08w =09b =06b =02w -01b +13w =04w =05b 
:  8 +TheBaron          [2602]  5.5  [2647] [ 244] +22w -07b +16w =03b =09b +12w =01w +10b -02w
:  9 +atomGoldbar       [2604]  5.0  [2536] [ 260] +20w =06b =07w =14b =08w =15b =12w -03b +11w 
: 10 +Myrddin           [2319]  5.0  [2426] [ 125] -06b +20w -12w +19b +16w -05w +21b -08w +17b 
: 11 +rpiArminius       [2201]  5.0  [2309] [   0] -01b +19w +22b -04w -05b +16w +24b +17w -09b 
: 12 +Amoeba            [2661]  4.5  [2508] [   0] +17w -21w +10b +05b -03w -08b =09b +14w -01w 
: 13 +WaDuuttie         [2610]  4.5  [2457] [   0] +18w -02b -06w +16b +14w =17b -07b +15w -04b 
: 14 +RookieMonster     [2331]  4.5  [2466] [ 249] -02b +18w +20b =09w -13b +21w -06w -12b +19b 
: 15 +Zahak             [2172]  4.5  [2380] [ 488] -07b +22w -04b +18w +21b =09w -03b -13b +24w 
: 16 +CTdccc            [2168]  4.0  [2202] [   0] -03b +23w -08b -13w -10b -11b +19w +22w +20b
: 17 +feligres          [2153]  4.0  [2258] [ 744] -12b +24w +23b +21w =04b =13w -05b -11b -10w 
: 18 +Isa               [2090]  4.0  [2062] [   0] -13b -14b -05w -15b +20w +24w +23b -19w +22b 
: 19 +emblarpiiv        [1972]  4.0  [2066] [ 118] -04w -11b +24b -10w +23b +22w -16b +18b -14w 
: 20 +Pygmalion         [2041]  3.5  [2049] [ 403] -09b -10b -14w +24w -18b +23w =22b +21w -16w 
: 21 -mhouppin          [2444]  2.0  [1992] [ 217] +24w +12b -02w -17b -15w -14b -10w -20b -23b 
: 22 +atomSargonI       [1955]  2.0  [1842] [  43] -08b -15b -11w +23w =24b -19b =20w -16b -18w 
: 23 +micahgb           [1782]  2.0  [1880] [ 662] -05b -16b -17w -22b -19w -20b -18w +24b +21w 
: 24 +POS               [1553]  0.5  [1734] [ 201] -21b -17b -19w -20b =22w -18b -11w -23w -15b

[Guenther]

Arasan got the top spot, Nightmare came in second, Marvin, atomNightmare and Arminius ended 3th.
After the 2nd round mhouppin logged off and never came back, resulting in a series of losses.
Several regulars were missing, including the engines of Harm Geert. Hopefully they will be back next month.
See you all next time!

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:Tourney Players: Round 9 of 9 
:
:     Name              Rating Score Perfrm Upset  Results 
:     ----------------- ------ ----- ------ ------ ------- 
:  1 +ArasanX           [2830]  7.5  [2928] [  65] +11w +04b +03w =02b +06w +07w =08b =05w +12b 
...
: 20 +Pygmalion         [2041]  3.5  [2049] [ 403] -09b -10b -14w +24w -18b +23w =22b +21w -16w 
: 21 -mhouppin          [2444]  2.0  [1992] [ 217] +24w +12b -02w -17b -15w -14b -10w -20b -23b 
: 22 +atomSargonI       [1955]  2.0  [1842] [  43] -08b -15b -11w +23w =24b -19b =20w -16b -18w 
: 23 +micahgb           [1782]  2.0  [1880] [ 662] -05b -16b -17w -22b -19w -20b -18w +24b +21w 
: 24 +POS               [1553]  0.5  [1734] [ 201] -21b -17b -19w -20b =22w -18b -11w -23w -15b

I was curious about Pygmalion because I never heard of it, thus I looked up the finger notes on your server.

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Statistics for Pygmalion(C)     (Last disconnected Sat Sep 11, 22:58 CEST 2021):

         rating     RD     win   loss   draw  total   best
Blitz     1979     85.3      7     12      5     24   2007 (11-Sep-2021)


 1: This is a computer account: SOS 5.1 for Arena@Arena 3.5.1
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[flok]

I was curious about Pygmalion because I never heard of it, thus I looked up the finger notes on your server.

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Statistics for Pygmalion(C)     (Last disconnected Sat Sep 11, 22:58 CEST 2021):

         rating     RD     win   loss   draw  total   best
Blitz     1979     85.3      7     12      5     24   2007 (11-Sep-2021)


 1: This is a computer account: SOS 5.1 for Arena@Arena 3.5.1
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Point being?

[Joost Buijs]

I was curious about Pygmalion because I never heard of it, thus I looked up the finger notes on your server.

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Statistics for Pygmalion(C)     (Last disconnected Sat Sep 11, 22:58 CEST 2021):

         rating     RD     win   loss   draw  total   best
Blitz     1979     85.3      7     12      5     24   2007 (11-Sep-2021)


 1: This is a computer account: SOS 5.1 for Arena@Arena 3.5.1
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Yesterday I noticed this too and decided not to make a point of it. I could be possible that he first tried to logon with Arena and later switched to Winboard with his own engine. The program played very weak, about the level of Sargon 1, I assume SOS 5.1 from Rudolf Hubner is much stronger than this.

[JVMerlino]

Yesterday I noticed this too and decided not to make a point of it. I could be possible that he first tried to logon with Arena and later switched to Winboard with his own engine. The program played very weak, about the level of Sargon 1, I assume SOS 5.1 from Rudolf Hubner is much stronger than this.

It is actually currently just 10 CCRL points weaker than Myrddin, so definitely should have done much better.

[Ras]

The program played very weak, about the level of Sargon 1, I assume SOS 5.1 from Rudolf Hubner is much stronger than this.

Yes, and the 3.5 points Pygmalion scored are easy to misinterpret. The three wins: POS is the random mover, micahgb threw away its material including the queen (likely some setup issue because Micah is 2100 CCRL where that doesn't happen), and mhouppin forfeited because of internet connection problems. Hence, the only opponent that played trouble-free chess was Sargon, and that was an even fight.