FCP-Tourney-2024-MA ... start December 24th, 2023

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi there,

Announcement for December 24th, 2023 (tournament start):

1. Conditions
2. List of participating engines

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FCP-Tourney-2024-MA, hardware

Operating system: Windows 10 Professional
GUI:              Shredder 12 by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
Processor:        AMD Ryzen™ 9 5950X / RTX 3070-Ti = 16 cores
Ghz, RAM:         4.0Ghz overclocked, DDR4 3200Mhz
Bench:            Total time= 87,18 seconds, nodes= 126164000, nps= 1447112
                  Bench results by Wasp 6.50 NN with 1 core, 768Mb hashtables
TalkChess:        U.S. Forum


FCP-Tourney-2024-MA, parameters / statistics

Start of tourney: December 24th, 2023 (00:00)
End of tourney:   unclear (longer as an half year)

FTP updates:      Every 10 minutes, the current table is updated with Fling Plus 5.04.
Tournament table: https://www.amateurschach.de/fling/fcp-tourney-2024.html

FTP updates:      Every 10 minutes, the current game-plan is updated with Fling Plus 5.04.
Game-Plan         https://www.amateurschach.de/fling/fcp-tourney-2024.sto

HTTPS updates:    After every or every other round. If I work on it more often (irregular)
Games & Stats     https://www.amateurschach.de/download/_fcp-tourney-2024.zip

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                  * Current statistics after round 0 (Dec. 24th, 2023)      *
                  * Move-average: 0,00 = 0,0 moves                          *
                  * Draws: 0,00%                                            *
                  * ~125 games per day                                      *
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Elo:              unclear (avg. of 44 participate engines) setting for Shredder 12 GUI
                  SlowChess Blitz 2.9 NN is playing with ~3380 Elo (reference)

Tournament type:  Everyone against everyone, 44 engines, 24 games per match,
                  1.032 games per engine, 946 games per round, 24 x 946 = 22.704 games total

Engine-Updates:   Possible for Wasp development versions only

1st time control: 66 moves in 66 minutes + 6 seconds
2nd time control: 22 moves + 2 seconds for the rest of the game

Endgame 6-man:    syzygy
Endgame 5-man:    gaviotabases for Texel 1.10 NN (in addition 6-man syzygy)
                  gaviotabases for Chiron 5.01 (in addition 6-man syzygy)
                  gaviotabases & egbb for DanaSah 9.1 NN
Endgame 5-man:    shredderbases for Shredder 13
Endgame 5-man:    no nalimov for Fritz 16 (Rybka) ... produces crashes now and then.

Opening book:     FEOBOS v20.1 Contempt 3-5 tuned v2, *.bkt for Shredder GUI
                  Lines are balanced 3 moves after the end of the ECO-code.

Cores:            1 core, Hyperthreading = off, Large-Pages = off
Hashtables:       512Mb
Contempt:         Default engine settings changed to contempt 0.
Other settings:   resign = off, ponder = off, learning = off

Replay games:     Every draw less than 20 moves

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FCP-Tourney-2024-MA
44 of the available ~TOP-75 CPU-Engines at the start!
It is the move-average that is decisive for the selection of engines!

List of participating engines (changes possible):
Fastest available compile is used!
NN = Neural-Network
NNSV = Neural-Network file based on the work by Sergio Vieri (for Stockfish) 


    Name of engine            engine date   commentaries
01. Andscacs 0.95.123         2019-03-22    HCE = Hand Crafted Evaluation
02. Arasan 24.0 NN            2023-08-12
03. Booot 6.4                 2020-04-05    HCE = Hand Crafted Evaluation, superstar from FCP-Tourney-2020
04. Caissa 1.14.1 NN          2023-11-12
05. Carp 3.0.1 NN             2023-09-25
06. Chess.cpp 4.0 NN          2023-07-07
07. Chiron 5.01               2021-06-25    HCE = Hand Crafted Evaluation
08. Clover 6.0 NN             2023-08-11
09. CSTal 2.00 NN             2023-06-29
10. DanaSah 9.1 NN            2023-06-20
11. Devre 5.0 NN              2022-08-23
12. Dragon 3.3 NN (aggr.)     2023-10-02    Personality: Aggressive
13. Fire 9.2 NN               2023-11-12
14. Fizbo 2.0 NN              2017-12-18
15. Fritz 16 (Rybka)          2017-11-13    HCE = Hand Crafted Evaluation
16. Fritz 19 NN (Gingko)      2023-09-11
17. Hakkapeliitta 3.0 NNSV    2023-06-08    With "Raptor" Neural-Network by Sergio Vieri (Indonesian)
18. Hiarcs 15.2               2023-07-01    HCE = Hand Crafted Evaluation
19. Igel 3.5.0 NN             2023-06-22
20. Laser 1.7                 2019-02-07    HCE = Hand Crafted Evaluation
21. Mantissa 3.7.2 NN         2022-08-19
22. Marvin 6.2.0 NN           2023-07-09
23. Midnight 8 NN             2023-09-26
24. Minic 3.39 NN             2023-10-29
25. Nalwald 18 NN             2023-08-13
26. Nemorino 6.11 NN dev      2022-08-26    Net16 (same NN file used for older versions since 6.05)
27. Pawn 2.0 NN               2023-10-12
28. Rebel EAS NN              2023-08-20
29. Revenge 3.0 NN            2022-06-11
30. RubiChess 20230918 NN     2023-09-18
31. Seer 2.7.0 NN             2023-10-28
32. Shredder 13               2016-10-20    HCE = Hand Crafted Evaluation
33. SlowChess Blitz 2.9 NN    2022-06-01    3380 Elo (FCP-Rating-List, ending on June 29th, 2022)
34. Stockfish 13 NN           2021-02-19    Contempt = 0 (last version with adjustable contempt)
35. Texel 1.10 NN             2023-09-25
36. Tucano 11.00.1 NN         2023-07-14
37. Uralochka 3.40a NN        2023-11-03
38. Velvet 5.3.0 NN           2023-08-10
39. Viridithas 11.0.0 NN      2023-09-24
40. Wasp 6.50 NN              2023-02-28
41. Wasp 6.61 NN dev          2023-10-22    Current dev version from Wasp
42. Winter 2.0 NN             2023-01-28
43. Xiphos 0.6                2019-11-07    HCE = Hand Crafted Evaluation
44. --- free place ---

Best
Frank

[Frank Quisinsky]

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1st Priority	lower average of the moves
2nd Priority	Wasp test (2x Wasp on start)
3rd Priority	test-set optimisations (FEOBOS database search)
4th Priority	midgame with time-control manipulation
5th Priority	more short wins, more powerful tactical engines are inside
6th Priority	lower average of the draws
7th Priority	more HCE engines

With this group of 44 engines (one free-place at the moment) I can reduce the move average from ~96 to ~86 moves. I use a very high time control with 66 moves in 66 minutes + 6, the rest of the game in 22 minutes + 2. So I need a low move-average or different games runs the half day.

The lower the move-average the higher the fun-factor in watching the games.

66 in 66 + 6 = A devil tournament, produced a lot of short wins (sure about it).

Best
Frank

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi there,

I have the ma-tournament running here as a test with the time-control 3+1 and 5-man syzygy. Everything works fine and I can see a lot. The idea to use a time control like 66 moves in 66 minutes + rest of the game in 20 minutes + 2 seconds per move was bad. It seems that many engines do not understand it or the time management is bad. So I have to change the conditions again.

The time control will be 66 minutes game + 6 seconds per move.

I have also added a new rule:

*** A new rule ***
After round 03: Engine with highest move average is disqualified for more rounds = 44-1
After round 04: Engine with highest move average is disqualified for more rounds = 43-1
After lap 05: Engine with highest move average is disqualified for more rounds = 42-1
41 engines remain until the end of the tournament = 13,120 games

After that what I can see in the "test-ma-tournament with 5-man and 3+1" ... 7 of the engines are in danger. But all in all the move average is great. Maybe it will go down to less than 86 moves. Thats fantastic with an Elo average from 3280!!

After I start the tournament on 24th December 2023 I will open a new thread with more updated information about conditions and participating engines. But after 3-4 weeks of testing on different PCs the new conditions are ready and the field of engines seems clear to me.

It will be a very nice tournament and I can produce much more fun, very sure about it.

So 10% less engery for the tournament with a fewer move-average ... 86 to 96-moves.
Tourney runs some weeks fewer with the final result: I save energy = more PIZZA are possible and a clearly more fun. So both is important ... the PIZZA and the tourney.

And 10% less ... computing time (for nothing).
And the problem is solved very easy!
Sorry to the programmers are not longer participating ... many great engines are out.
But the long-move-average is an absolutely "NOGO" for me.

For these group of programmers: I play the first tournament to end and produced a nice results for all ... hope so, think so.

Frank