The Galactic Plane

[Graham Banks]

THE GALACTIC PLANE

AMD Ryzen 5950x
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
6 piece tablebases
Ponder off
GBSelect2023.cgb book
12 minutes with 8 second increments.
6 cycles 54 rounds
All engines 1CPU (64-bit where available)


Participants

Ginkgo Valencia 1.01 64-bit (Fritz 19)
Altair 6.0.0 64-bit
Black Marlin 8.0 64-bit
Starzix 3.0 64-bit (previously known as z5)
Nemorino 6.00 64-bit
Marvin 6.2.0 64-bit
Blackcore 6.0 64-bit
Pawn 2.0 64-bit
Avalanche 2.0.0 64-bit
Lizard 10.0 64-bit (previously known as LTChess)


Web based link for live viewing (courtesy of Jay - Berserk author).
https://ccrl.live/16073

Alternatively, if you install TLCV (Tom's Live Chess Viewer) on your computer, you can watch the games live move by move. You'll also be able to chat to others following the tournament in the chatroom there.
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=42959
Host - GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port - 16073

Linux users can use Livius:
https://github.com/kmar/livius

There is also a Livius windows version.
It has live pv boards as a nice addition.
http://www.crabaware.com/livius/

[Graham Banks]

THE GALACTIC PLANE

AMD Ryzen 5950x
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
6 piece tablebases
Ponder off
GBSelect2023.cgb book
12 minutes with 8 second increments.
6 cycles 54 rounds
All engines 1CPU (64-bit where available)


Standings after Round 9

6.5 - Black Marlin 8.0 64-bit
6.0 - Altair 6.0.0 64-bit
5.5 - Ginkgo Valencia 1.01 64-bit
5.5 - Starzix 3.0 64-bit
4.0 - Nemorino 6.00 64-bit
4.0 - BlackCore 6.0 64-bit
3.5 - Lizard 10.0 64-bit
3.5 - Pawn 2.0 64-bit
3.5 - Marvin 6.2.0 64-bit
3.0 - Avalanche 2.0.0 64-bit


Web based link for live viewing (courtesy of Jay - Berserk author).
https://ccrl.live/16073

Alternatively, if you install TLCV (Tom's Live Chess Viewer) on your computer, you can watch the games live move by move. You'll also be able to chat to others following the tournament in the chatroom there.
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=42959
Host - GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port - 16073

Linux users can use Livius:
https://github.com/kmar/livius

There is also a Livius windows version.
It has live pv boards as a nice addition.
http://www.crabaware.com/livius/

[Graham Banks]

THE GALACTIC PLANE

AMD Ryzen 5950x
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
6 piece tablebases
Ponder off
GBSelect2023.cgb book
12 minutes with 8 second increments.
6 cycles 54 rounds
All engines 1CPU (64-bit where available)


Standings after Round 18

13.0 - Black Marlin 8.0 64-bit
11.5 - Altair 6.0.0 64-bit
11.0 - Ginkgo Valencia 1.01 64-bit
9.0 - Nemorino 6.00 64-bit
9.0 - Starzix 3.0 64-bit
8.5 - Lizard 10.0 64-bit
8.5 - Pawn 2.0 64-bit
8.0 - BlackCore 6.0 64-bit
7.0 - Marvin 6.2.0 64-bit
4.5 - Avalanche 2.0.0 64-bit


Web based link for live viewing (courtesy of Jay - Berserk author).
https://ccrl.live/16073

Alternatively, if you install TLCV (Tom's Live Chess Viewer) on your computer, you can watch the games live move by move. You'll also be able to chat to others following the tournament in the chatroom there.
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=42959
Host - GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port - 16073

Linux users can use Livius:
https://github.com/kmar/livius

There is also a Livius windows version.
It has live pv boards as a nice addition.
http://www.crabaware.com/livius/

[Graham Banks]

THE GALACTIC PLANE

AMD Ryzen 5950x
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
6 piece tablebases
Ponder off
GBSelect2023.cgb book
12 minutes with 8 second increments.
6 cycles 54 rounds
All engines 1CPU (64-bit where available)


Standings after Round 27

19.0 - Black Marlin 8.0 64-bit
16.0 - Altair 6.0.0 64-bit
16.0 - Ginkgo Valencia 1.01 64-bit
14.0 - Nemorino 6.00 64-bit
13.5 - Lizard 10.0 64-bit
13.5 - Starzix 3.0 64-bit
13.0 - Pawn 2.0 64-bit
12.0 - BlackCore 6.0 64-bit
11.0 - Marvin 6.2.0 64-bit
7.0 - Avalanche 2.0.0 64-bit


Web based link for live viewing (courtesy of Jay - Berserk author).
https://ccrl.live/16073

Alternatively, if you install TLCV (Tom's Live Chess Viewer) on your computer, you can watch the games live move by move. You'll also be able to chat to others following the tournament in the chatroom there.
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=42959
Host - GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port - 16073

Linux users can use Livius:
https://github.com/kmar/livius

There is also a Livius windows version.
It has live pv boards as a nice addition.
http://www.crabaware.com/livius/

[Graham Banks]

THE GALACTIC PLANE

AMD Ryzen 5950x
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
6 piece tablebases
Ponder off
GBSelect2023.cgb book
12 minutes with 8 second increments.
6 cycles 54 rounds
All engines 1CPU (64-bit where available)


Standings after Round 36

25.5 - Black Marlin 8.0 64-bit
21.5 - Ginkgo Valencia 1.01 64-bit
21.0 - Altair 6.0.0 64-bit
18.5 - Nemorino 6.00 64-bit
18.0 - Lizard 10.0 64-bit
18.0 - Pawn 2.0 64-bit
17.0 - Starzix 3.0 64-bit
16.0 - Marvin 6.2.0 64-bit
14.5 - BlackCore 6.0 64-bit
10.0 - Avalanche 2.0.0 64-bit


Web based link for live viewing (courtesy of Jay - Berserk author).
https://ccrl.live/16073

Alternatively, if you install TLCV (Tom's Live Chess Viewer) on your computer, you can watch the games live move by move. You'll also be able to chat to others following the tournament in the chatroom there.
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=42959
Host - GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port - 16073

Linux users can use Livius:
https://github.com/kmar/livius

There is also a Livius windows version.
It has live pv boards as a nice addition.
http://www.crabaware.com/livius/

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi Graham,

Fritz 19 is much more aggressive as the older versions, I like first time the style of chess if I compare to Fritz 17 / 18.
All programs in your tourney I like a lot. Black Marlin have a big move-average and lost games fast but the endgame is for the strength a little wonder. Very own style of chess.

Starzix should be go higher I think.
I am testing a bit Starzsix and Lizard with 6+3 on my i7 11Gen, 3GHz ultrabook ...
I will add the results later this day.

But all in all ...
Most I like Pawn because I saw many nice games in my tournament with longer time-controls and Altair is not easy to beat, also for the stronger engines. Marvin is wonderful, in each of my tourneys on start and Nemorino is also stronger with more time. Unfortunately, the Nemorino programmer lost a bit interest on chess programming. Not all like Neural-Network and I can understand him. So we should thinking about it to create special weeks around Nemorino. A very nice programmer with so many great ideas.



Again, a nice tourney, great engines, a great Graham since many years, all is wonderful.

Have a good start in the year 2024!

Best
Frank

[Graham Banks]

Thanks, Frank.

Happy New Year to you as well.

You make some insightful and interesting observations.

Graham.

[Graham Banks]

THE GALACTIC PLANE

AMD Ryzen 5950x
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
6 piece tablebases
Ponder off
GBSelect2023.cgb book
12 minutes with 8 second increments.
6 cycles 54 rounds
All engines 1CPU (64-bit where available)


Standings after Round 45

30.5 - Black Marlin 8.0 64-bit
28.5 - Ginkgo Valencia 1.01 64-bit
26.0 - Altair 6.0.0 64-bit
23.5 - Nemorino 6.00 64-bit
22.0 - Pawn 2.0 64-bit
22.0 - Lizard 10.0 64-bit
21.0 - Starzix 3.0 64-bit
20.0 - Marvin 6.2.0 64-bit
18.5 - BlackCore 6.0 64-bit
13.0 - Avalanche 2.0.0 64-bit


Web based link for live viewing (courtesy of Jay - Berserk author).
https://ccrl.live/16073

Alternatively, if you install TLCV (Tom's Live Chess Viewer) on your computer, you can watch the games live move by move. You'll also be able to chat to others following the tournament in the chatroom there.
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=42959
Host - GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port - 16073

Linux users can use Livius:
https://github.com/kmar/livius

There is also a Livius windows version.
It has live pv boards as a nice addition.
http://www.crabaware.com/livius/

[Graham Banks]

THE GALACTIC PLANE

AMD Ryzen 5950x
ChessGUI
256mb hash each where possible
6 piece tablebases
Ponder off
GBSelect2023.cgb book
12 minutes with 8 second increments.
6 cycles 54 rounds
All engines 1CPU (64-bit where available)


Final Standings

37.0 - Black Marlin 8.0 64-bit
33.0 - Ginkgo Valencia 1.01 64-bit
30.5 - Altair 6.0.0 64-bit
28.5 - Nemorino 6.00 64-bit
27.0 - Lizard 10.0 64-bit
25.5 - Starzix 3.0 64-bit
24.5 - Pawn 2.0 64-bit
24.0 - BlackCore 6.0 64-bit
24.0 - Marvin 6.2.0 64-bit
16.0 - Avalanche 2.0.0 64-bit


The complete tournament pgn (zipped) can be downloaded here:
https://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discus ... p?id=55074

[Graham Banks]

Congratulations to Doruk (Black Marlin author) for winning this tournament.

Thanks to everybody who took an interest.