New Event on Home Laptop

[brinan]

Ladder matches #7 and #8 finished.

IvanHoe 57 drew 6-6 with IvanHoe 52, and so 57's challenge fails.
Houdini 1.03a reached 6 points, with 2 games left, so defending the challenge from version 1.02.

[brinan]

Ratings updated. Covers 674 games with a time control of 90 minutes each side. Zip and 7z compressed game files available. Know sample size is small.

[brinan]

Ratings updated. Covers 756 games with a time control of 90 minutes each side. Principal variation included in game output. 7-Zip file can be downloaded (compressed, but still 5MB). Know sample size is small.

[brinan]

Knockout event started with ten engines. Stockfish 2.0.1 has already defeated version 1.9.1 in the first preliminary-round match.

[brinan]

Knockout event started with ten engines. [...]

Fire 1.31 wins event, beating Saros 2.3gs in final.

Houdini 1.5 knocked out by Saros.

[brinan]

IvanHoe 47 challenges Houdini 1.5 for number one spot.

First game drawn.

Use Silversuite files to provide set openings.

[brinan]

IvanHoe 47 tops ladder after beating Houdini 1.5 by 6.5-5.5.

[kingliveson]

Details

    * 90 minutes each
    * Both use 2 hardware threads
    * 64-bit engines
    * Ponder on
    * 256MB hash table
    * 32MB pawn hash for IvanHoe
    * Large Page support NOT implemented
    * Openings
          o Engines play both sides of randomly-chosen, set openings
          o Obtained from Silver Suite files
          o Merged file contains 50 non-gambit openings, and 25 gambits
    * File names
          o Houdini_15_x64.exe
          o \Mode_Game_Play\x86-64\IvanHoe999947c.exe
    * GUI is Arena 3

Is this running on 2 different hardware, or single with 2 cores per engine?

[brinan]

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Is this running on 2 different hardware, or single with 2 cores per engine?

One laptop, with CPU having 2 cores and 4 hardware threads. Each engine gets two hardware threads.

[brinan]

Deep Rybka 4 moves to third on ladder after finishing 6.5-2.5 ahead of Stockfish 2.0.1.