An alternative chess engine tournament Welcome to CountryChess!
In the first stage, chess engines of the same country will play a double round-robin tournament. The winner of each country competition meets other country winners in qualifying matches or in the Champions League, according to its place on the country ranking list. Top ranked countries will be represented by 2, 3 or even 4 engines in the Champions League.
About me:
My name is Geert. I live in Belgium and I am visually impaired. My chess elorating is about 1850 elo.
I prefer to update an easy blog, friendly for a blind user. The purpose is to organize tournaments and to share the games and results. I don't like wasting time on unaccessible webdesign programs. So don't expect a perfect lay-out, but let's hope it is good enough though!
Glass 1.6 was clearly too strong for its opponent InmiChess 3.06. Probably after a few matches, InmiChess will have an elorating <2000 and will be excluded. Glass is qualified for the CL.
This evening, the French country competition will start with the 12 strongest available freeware engines, based on standings and elolists of WBEC Ridderkerk and ChessWar. In next French competitions, more engines will be added.
Conditions:
Double round robin; time control =30'+5"; hashtables =128; ponder =off; 3 and 4-men tablebases; startelo =2300.
Categorie:France
23-07-2011
Test tournament Australia finished
At the beginning, Little Thought was crashing in almost every game. But the author Nathan Thom helped me to adjust some parameters: Multiple threads =1, TraceLevel =2. With these settings, Little Thought played just great and obtained a 4-2 win against Trace. Little Thought will participate in the Champions League test tournament. Countrychess00-AUS Halle, 2011.07.21
3 weeks ago, I started with the first test tournaments. The winner of each test tournament will play a round-robin Champions League afterward. This CL tournament is only meant to create a country ranking start list. All engines start with an elorating of 2400. Conditions for the test tournament: Computer stuff: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 870 @ 2.93GHz; Os: Win7 64-bit Home edition. Interface: Fritzgui Hashtable size: 128 Tablebases: 3 and 4-men. Opening books: the book of the engine; if there's no book available, then perfect2010.ctg is used. Multi threads: max =6cpu (if supported by the engine).
Time control: 30'+5"
More information in the very near future.
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30-11--0001
@2: Norway
CC01-02 Norway,
Listing of Players N Name 1 Gothmog 1.0 Beta 10 2 Sjakk 1.1.9 3 Stockfish 2.2.2 Ja 4 Viper 0.1 Ja
The winner gains access to the Champions league; engines ranked 2-4 enter the third qualifying round.