On-line engine blitz tourney January

[Joost Buijs]

The monthly online engine blitz tournament for January will take place on:

Saturday, January 17, 2:00 PM EST (Boston time) 20:00 CET (Amsterdam time)

To connect, use the following command:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz -keepAlive 30
(For UCI engines, add -fUCI)

If you don’t have an account, please submit a request to admin@nightmare-chess.nl.

Our tournament manager will be Eendje (Lisebeth @ ICC).

The format will be 9 rounds, Swiss system, 5/1 time control.

Lisebeth prefers to start the tournament on the hour, so please log in 15 minutes early. Late entries are not supported.

[jshriver]

I'm planning to participate with my engine Erebus. It's very bad and anticipating a beating. Just feels good after all this time to have something running. Foundation is set, now the fun part of tinkering with a HCE and eventually NNUE eval. Right now the eval is pretty much PST based. Still working on a good transposition table and other basic features.

Edit: I've not tested yet, but has anyone used icsdrone on the nightmare-chess.nl server? For other people who may be new you might need to add -icsport 5000 or /icsport 5000 (for windows).

[Modern Times]

Edit: I've not tested yet, but has anyone used icsdrone on the nightmare-chess.nl server? For other people who may be new you might need to add -icsport 5000 or /icsport 5000 (for windows).

With Winboard, no I have never used that so it can't be required.

[Joost Buijs]

Edit: I've not tested yet, but has anyone used icsdrone on the nightmare-chess.nl server? For other people who may be new you might need to add -icsport 5000 or /icsport 5000 (for windows).

I used to have the atom engines running under ICSdroneng, it works fine, it's an old version though (I compiled it 5 or 6 years ago).

[Andres Valverde]

Is the server up ? I couldnt connect yesterday nor today

[Joost Buijs]

Is the server up ? I couldnt connect yesterday nor today

Yes, the server is up.

I see Arasan and some other engines logged on, I tried a remote connection to the server, that works too.
Maybe port 5000 is blocked somehow, but that must be a problem on your end.

Yesterday the server was offline for a while, I had to update it to the latest Linux-Mint version.

[Andres Valverde]

Is the server up ? I couldnt connect yesterday nor today

nvm Problem solved

[op12no2]

can somebody remind me of the command to join it's been a few years. tell mamer 1?

and as i recall everybody used their own book, is that right? if so i need to find one...

[Joost Buijs]

Unfortunately, the server crashed after four rounds; it’s the second crash in 7 years. Sometimes this happens without a clear identifiable cause. It could be anything—an update to Linux Mint 22.3, a hardware issue, or even a bitflip caused by a cosmic ray. Tomorrow, I will try to figure out what went wrong.

These are the results of the last 5 rounds after the crash:

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:Tourney Players: Round 5 of 5 
:
:     Name              Rating Score Perfrm Upset  Results 
:     ----------------- ------ ----- ------ ------ ------- 
:  1 +PlentyChessRB     [2822]  4.5  [3018] [ 157] +19w +12w +08b +03w =07b 
:  2 -LczTinker         [2957]  3.5  [2840] [   0] +17b =06w =03w =09b +10w 
:  3 +ArasanX           [2889]  3.5  [2838] [  34] +18w +10w =02b -01b +11w 
:  4 +NightmareX        [2859]  3.5  [2745] [   0] =14b =05w +11b =10w +12w 
:  5 -Goldbar           [2802]  3.5  [2736] [ 113] +20w =04b =07w =12b +15w 
:  6 +Viper             [2660]  3.5  [2777] [ 338] +21w =02b =09b =07w +19b 
:  7 +BelFish           [2972]  3.0  [2777] [   0] +13w =09w =05b =06b =01w 
:  8 +WaspX             [2837]  3.0  [2584] [   0] +15w =11b -01w +18w =13b
:  9 -Lunar             [2728]  3.0  [2725] [ 236] +16w =07b =06w =02w =14b 
: 10 -Cheng             [2656]  2.5  [2611] [ 101] +22w -03b +20w =04b -02b 
: 11 +atomGoldbar       [2559]  2.5  [2488] [ 139] +23b =08w -04w +21b -03b 
: 12 +Lozza             [2528]  2.5  [2482] [ 137] +25w -01b +16b =05w -04b 
: 13 +EveAnn            [2475]  2.5  [2543] [ 181] -07b =14w =15b +20w =08w 
: 14 -Isa               [2382]  2.5  [2524] [ 457] =04w =13b -17w +22b =09w 
: 15 +Caligula          [2267]  2.5  [2454] [ 306] -08b +23w =13w +17b -05b 
: 16 -jackychess        [2255]  2.5  [2321] [  82] -09b +19b -12w +23w =18b
: 17 -WaDuuttie         [2469]  2.0  [2293] [   0] -02w -21b +14b -15w +22w 
: 18 +Dirty             [2400]  2.0  [2368] [   0] -03b +22w =21w -08b =16w 
: 19 -Knightx           [2265]  2.0  [2156] [   0] -01b -16w +23b +24b -06w 
: 20 +CTdccc            [2257]  2.0  [2325] [   0] -05b +24w -10b -13b +21w 
: 21 +atomFloyd         [2167]  1.5  [2309] [ 418] -06b +17w =18b -11w -20b 
: 22 -Barbarossa        [2093]  1.0  [2076] [   0] -10b -18b +24w -14w -17b 
: 23 +MicroMaxXb        [1688]  1.0  [1936] [   0] -11w -15b -19w -16b +24w 
: 24 +_BYE_             [   0]  0.0  [1675] [   0] -20b -22b -19w -23b
: 25 +admin             [forf]  0.0  [2128] [   0] -12b

I hope to see you all next time (hopefully without server crash).

[Ras]

I have a weird issue under Linux Mint 22.2 - something I didn't have earlier. When I start Xboard from the start menu with

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xboard -zp -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl -icshelper /opt/chess/timeseal/openseal -fUCI -fcp /opt/chess/engines/CT800_V1.46 -fd /opt/chess/engines/ -autoKibitz -keepAlive 1

then it fails. There's a dialogue box that says "Got end of file from keyboard", and clicking "OK" ends Xboard.

However, when I use the same command as above from the terminal, it works, though I have to use the terminal for the chat interface. It's just that the Xboard ICS chat function doesn't seem to work.

Any ideas anyone? What does "end of file from keyboard" mean in this context?