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!
Listing of Players N Name Ratin 1 Sjeng Ct 2010 2951
Sjeng is champion of Belgium and will participate in the Championsleague. The second place will be taken by a top engine of the 3rd play-off tournament, the third place will be replaced by a top engine of the 2nd play-off tournament.
The strongest Belgian engine, Houdini, (probably I should delete "Belgian" here, since Houdini is simply the strongest engine ever), is not participating yet. Whenever there is any doubt whether an engine is a derivative or not, I made the decision to be as consequent as possible with the tournament rules I've pointed out myself. Be aware that I am not blaming its author at all; I even bought Houdini 3!
Categorie:Belgium
14-12-2012
#5: Slovakia
CountryChess 02-05 Slovakia,
Listing of Players N Name Ratin 1 Critter 1.6A X64 6Cpu 3034
Critter is champion of Slovakia and will play the Championsleague. Since there is no second and third engine of Slovakia, these 2 free spots will be taken by a top engine of the 2nd and 3th play-off tournament.
Categorie:Slovakia
13-12-2012
#6 Netherlands, premier division: standings after second leg
Fritz is champion of the Netherlands and is qualified for the Champions League! Spark will enter the 4th qualifying round while Bobcat plays the third one. Mephisto and SpiderChess demote to the first division.
Listing of Players N Name Ratin 1 Spark 1.0 X64 6Cpu 2885 2 Fritz 13 6Cpu 2783 3 Bobcat 3.25 X64 4Cpu 2766 4 Bright 0.5C 6Cpu 2739 5 The Baron 2.23 X64 2542 6 Brutus 8.05 X64 6Cpu 2541 7 The King 3.50 X64 4Cpu 2503 8 Prodeo 1.81 2502 9 Rotor 0.7A 2435 10 Spiderchess 070603 2371 11 Mephisto Gideon Pro 2349 12 Waduuttie 14Nov2012 0
The winner is qualified for the Champions League. The second-placed engine will play the fourth qualifying round and the third-placed engine will enter the third qualifying round. Engines ranked 11-12 demote to the first division.
Categorie:Netherlands
09-12-2012
#6 Netherlands, first division: standings after second leg
Listing of Players N Name 1 Anatoli 0.35K 2 Ant 2006F 3 Bikjump 2.01 X64 4 Gk 0.90 Ja X64 5 Jan Willem 1.13 6 Jazz 501 Ja X64 7 Joker 1.1.14W 8 Mephisto Gideon Pro 9 Queen 4.03A 10 Spiderchess 070603 11 Tao 5.6 12 Wing 2.0A
Engines ranked 1-2 promote to the premier division; engines ranked 11-12 demote to the second division.
Categorie:Netherlands
01-12-2012
#7 Germany, premier division: standings after first leg
Spike is champion of Germany! It is qualified for the Champions League. Shredder enters the 4th qualifying round. Anaconda and Hermann demote to the first division.
The champion of Germany is directly qualified for the Champions League; the second engine plays the 4th qualifying round. Engines ranked 11-12 demote to the first division.
Categorie:Germany
23-11-2012
#7 Germany, first division: standings after second leg
Listing of Players N Name 1 Amy 0.87B Dc 2 Der Bringer 1.9 3 Enginmax 5.24 X64 4 Feuerstein 0.4.61 5 Ghost 2.01 6 Ice 0.3 V2750 7 Octochess R4741 X64 6Cpu 8 Olithink 5.32 Ja 9 Patzer 3.80 2Cpu 10 Quark 2.35 11 Resp 0.19 Ja X64 12 Sorgenkind 0.4
Engines ranked 1-2 promote to the first division; engines ranked 11-12 demote to the 3rd division.
Categorie:Germany
10-11-2012
#8: Iran
CountryChess 02-08 Iran,
Listing of Players N Name Ratin 1 Ktulu 9 2706
Ktulu is Champion of Iran and is qualified for the Champions League. The second Iranian engine would participate in the 4th qualifying round. Since there's no second engine in Iran, this free spot will be taken by an engine ranked 1-5 in the 3th play-off tournament.