TCEC Tournament 3 - Long TC Live Broadcast! Hannibal debute!

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Martin Thoresen
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TCEC Tournament 3 - Long TC Live Broadcast! Hannibal debute!

Post by Martin Thoresen » Sun Sep 26, 2010 2:17 pm

TCEC TOURNAMENT 3

http://www.tcec-chess.org/live.php

STARTS IN 15 MINUTES!

This is not confirmed yet:
For chat please visit http://chessbomb.com/
Note: Don't pay too much attention to their built-in computer analysis since it's running multi pv which slows it down considerably.
Misc:
Tournament length: 30 games (double round-robin)
Openings: PGN can be viewed from the live page. They are random per pair.
See the info page for more details.
For news and updates check the News page regularly.

Participants:
Critter 0.80 64-bit 4CPU
Houdini 1.03a 64-bit 4CPU
Hiarcs 13.1 32-bit 4CPU
Hannibal 1.0a 64-bit 1CPU
Crafty 23.3 64-bit 4CPU
Stockfish 1.8 64-bit 4CPU

Time Control:
120 Minutes for the first 40 moves - 60 minutes for the next 20 moves then
15 minutes for the rest + 30 seconds added per move from move 61

Graphical User Interface:
Type: ChessGUI 0.200
Resign: +/- 5.50 eval for 3 moves in a row (both engines)
Draw: After move 40 an eval of +0.05/-0.05 for 4 moves in a row (both engines) - if there is a pawn advance, or a capture by any kind, this draw counter will reset.
Ponder: Off
Hash: 2048 MB / 1024 MB
Nalimov tablebases: "3 4 5 Men"
Gaviota tablebases: "3 4 5 Men"

Notes:
Matthias Gemuh, author of ChessGUI hasn't found the crash bug yet - but after
testing the latest version with some 600 blitz and bullet games while pushing
the live pgn system to the limits (1 second auto ftp upload) there has not been
a single crash so I take my chances and start this main TCEC event now.

As I am a big fan of Hannibal it will now make its debute in TCEC - keep
in mind that this engine is not SMP capable and thus runs with 1 core only.

Also, I am glad I am able to include Winboard engines without problems with this TC. Thanks to Matthias and Mr. Hyatt for confirming.

As for ChessBomb, I hope they will relay this tournament so that we can chat using their excellent website. This is not confirmed yet, however.
TCEC - Thoresen Chess Engines Competition
http://tcec.chessdom.com

Martin Thoresen
Posts: 386
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Re: TCEC Tournament 3 - Long TC Live Broadcast! Hannibal deb

Post by Martin Thoresen » Tue Sep 28, 2010 10:41 pm

Standings after round 3 of 10:

2.5 Stockfish 1.8 64-bit 4CPU
2.0 Critter 0.80 64-bit 4CPU
2.0 Houdini 1.03a 64-bit 4CPU
1.0 Crafty 23.3 64-bit 4CPU
1.0 Hiarcs 13.1 32-bit 4CPU
0.5 Hannibal 1.0a 64-bit 1CPU

For live broadcast visit www.tcec-chess.org/live.php
TCEC - Thoresen Chess Engines Competition
http://tcec.chessdom.com

Martin Thoresen
Posts: 386
Joined: Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:27 am

Re: TCEC Tournament 3 - Long TC Live Broadcast! Hannibal deb

Post by Martin Thoresen » Wed Sep 29, 2010 10:22 pm

ChessBomb is now broadcasting TCEC.

Visit their excellent site for live relay + chat!

http://www.chessbomb.com/
TCEC - Thoresen Chess Engines Competition
http://tcec.chessdom.com

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