104th Amateur Series Division 2

[Graham Banks]

104TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 2)

AMD Ryzen 5950x
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
6 piece tablebases
Ponder off
GBSelect2023.cgb book (restricted to 8 moves depth)
12 minutes with 8 second increments.
4 cycles 52 rounds
All engines 1CPU (64-bit where available)

The top engine will gain automatic promotion and the bottom engine will face automatic relegation. Any other changes of division will be at my discretion and may not necessarily involve playoff matches.

Final Standings

36.0 - Uralochka 3.40a 64-bit
35.0 - Viridithas 11.0.0 64-bit
29.5 - SlowChess Blitz 2.9 64-bit
29.0 - Booot 7.2 64-bit
27.5 - Carp 3.0.0 64-bit
27.0 - Superultra 1.0 64-bit
26.5 - Black Marlin 8.0 64-bit
26.0 - Fire 9 64-bit
25.5 - Velvet 5.3.0 64-bit
22.5 - Rice 7.0.0 64-bit
22.5 - Texel 1.10 64-bit
20.5 - Wasp 6.50 64-bit
19.0 - Marvin 6.2.0 64-bit
17.5 - Pawn 2.0 64-bit


The complete tournament pgn (zipped) can be downloaded here:
https://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discus ... p?id=54572

[Graham Banks]

Congratulations to Ivan (Uralochka author) for edging out Viridithas to win Division 2.
Back to Division 1 for the next series.

Thanks to everybody who took an interest in this tournament.

[Chessqueen]

Congratulations to Ivan (Uralochka author) for edging out Viridithas to win Division 2.
Back to Division 1 for the next series.

Thanks to everybody who took an interest in this tournament.

Can you create another division for engines rated between 1400 thru 1600?

[Graham Banks]

Congratulations to Ivan (Uralochka author) for edging out Viridithas to win Division 2.
Back to Division 1 for the next series.

Thanks to everybody who took an interest in this tournament.

Can you create another division for engines rated between 1400 thru 1600?

No - I already have enough divisions.
Besides, I wouldn't imagine that most weaker engines are recent.
I only include engines whose most recent version is less than 2 years old.