50th Amateur Series Division 7 (completed)

[Graham Banks]

50TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 7)

Intel i5 Quad
ChessGUI
256mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
Baracuda2014.cgb book
40 moves in 25 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 64-bit where available

The top engine will gain automatic promotion. Any other changes of division will be at my discretion and may not necessarily involve playoff matches.

Participants

EveAnn 1.71a
Gibbon 2.60a 64-bit
FireFly 2.7.0 64-bit
Orion 0.2 64-bit
Fischerle 0.9.60 64-bit
Protej 0.5.8c
MangoPaolaAjedrez 4.1
Absolute Zero 2.4.0.0
MadChess 1.4 64-bit
Exacto 0.e 64-bit
NGplay 9.86 64-bit
Carballo 0.8

[Graham Banks]

50TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 7)

Intel i5 Quad
ChessGUI
256mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
Baracuda2014.cgb book
40 moves in 25 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 64-bit where available

The top engine will gain automatic promotion. Any other changes of division will be at my discretion and may not necessarily involve playoff matches.

Final Standings

29.0 - Gibbon 2.60a 64-bit
28.0 - FireFly 2.7.0 64-bit
25.5 - Fischerle 0.9.60 64-bit
25.5 - Orion 0.2 64-bit
25.0 - EveAnn 1.71a
23.5 - MadChess 1.4 64-bit
20.0 - Carballo 0.8
20.0 - MangoPaolaAjedrez 4.1
19.0 - Absolute Zero 2.4.0.0 64-bit
17.0 - Protej 0.5.8c
17.0 - Exacto 0.e 64-bit
14.5 - NGplay 9.86 64-bit

[David Carteau]

I have been following closely this tournament : what a battle for the third place ! I need to work hard again to see Orion being promoted next time
Congratulations to all author, and again, thank you Graham for the organization of these matches. Happy new year to all of you !

[RolandoFurioso]

Indeed - a very exciting tournament; thrilling up to the end! Nice to see that Fischerle fared well this time. Congratulations to all contributing authors, and thank you very much, Dear Graham, for all these competent testing efforts and the great services that you're providing for the chess programming community!

A happy & successful new year 2015 to all of you!

Roland

[Graham Banks]

Thanks David and Rolando for your kind comments.
Happy New Year to you both.