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This tournament wont be done until after Xmas. Also because of several nasty (but irrelevant) mistakes, I will just provide results as normal.

Well, theres the Amateur Team thing that was floating around in my head, Glad to see someone turn it into a good idea.

Anyone with a sharp eye was probably wondering why Bouquet was having white every single game. I made a major goof in ChessGUI by not properly setting the pairing types. Unfortunately this mistake carried over to the other previous tournaments. Had this been a human tournament, someone would've glad...

LIVE BROADCAST CAN NOW BE SEEN ON http://www.screenleap.com/castle00 ROUND 4 Bouquet vs Strelka 1-0 The opening is a 9.h3 Anti-marshall in the Ruy Lopez. Strelka gets the d5 break in early, and some tactics follow. Strelka gives up the exchange for a dangerous light-squared bishop and a passed e-paw...

ROUND 3 Bouquet vs Naum 1-0 Another Grunfeld, this time with the 10...Qc7 main line. Bouquet gets the better of it with more space and a centralized knight. Naum makes a mistake on the 42nd move and Bouquet capitalizes, eventually winding up with 2 pawns and a winning position. 1-0 in 97 moves. Stoc...

I discovered this option when looking at Clemens Keck's new tournament. He is using screenleap too.

ATTENTION:

Live coverage of the games can now be seen on http://www.screenleap.com/046201108 This provides a live view of screen, which the game is on every few seconds.

Please tell me if you can see the games.

ROUND 2 Bouquet vs Stockfish 1/2-1/2 The game starts with a 4...Bf5 Caro-Kan. Bouquet's innovation with 17.Nh4 allowed a combination for Stockfish to equalize quickly and easily. Drawn in 36 moves. Deep Rybka vs Naum 1/2-1/2 The contest opens with the Russian variation of the Grunfeld defense. Both ...

Round 1 results Bouquet vs Deep Rybka 1/2-1/2 The Supertournament starts with a Dutch Defense. Bouquet gets a significant space advantage, but Rybka holds firm, eventually getting 2 pawns for the exchange amd with white's exposed king the game ended in a draw in 59 moves. Equinox vs Stockfish 1/2-1/...

4CPU means 4 cores. Strelka is only 1-core. Regular updates can me seen on chess2u

The rules ChessGUI 0.239 Double Round Robin Time Control G/150 + 30 Ponder OFF 3-4-5 EGTB can be used by engines Championship Book 2012.pgn 1024MB Hash 3-1-0 Scoring System (3 for a win, 1 for a draw) The Participants (ELO Ratings based off the Grand Unified Rating List) Houdini 3.0 4CPU (Belgium, E...

As you're probably aware by now, it's been reported that Komodo's speed in the 32-bit version is only half of that of the 64-bit version, as well as a serious bug that Dailey is fixing.

Yea. Either Zappa got Zapped out of here, or it got thrown for a "Loop"

At last, an upset!

With only 4 games per match there is a chance a major program coukd be knocked out early!

Perhaps we should consider Chess 960 testing for Computer Chess?