14th Amateur Series Division 1 (completed)

[Graham Banks]

14TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 1)

Intel Q6600 Quad Core
ChessGUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
HS-Large Remis book (limited to 12 moves)
40 moves in 32 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 32-bit 1CPU

Updated versions will only be introduced before the completion of the first cycle.

This will be the final series that both Alaric and Movei will play in unless new versions are released. There will be no automatic relegation this time around, but the bottom engine will play a ten game promotion/relegation match against the third top engine from Division 2.

Participants

Thinker 5.4c Inert
Grapefruit 1.0
Stockfish 1.4
Bright 0.4a
Twisted Logic 20080620
Frenzee Feb08
Delfi 5.4
Booot 4.15.0
Movei 00.8.438 (10 10 10)
Alaric 707
Cyrano 0.6b17
Colossus 2008b

[Graham Banks]

14TH AMATEUR SERIES (Division 1)

Intel Q6600 Quad Core
ChessGUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
HS-Large Remis book (limited to 12 moves)
40 moves in 32 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
4 cycles 44 rounds
All engines 32-bit 1CPU

This will be the final series that both Alaric and Movei will play in unless new versions are released. There will be no automatic relegation this time around, but the bottom engine will play a ten game promotion/relegation match against the third top engine from Division 2.

Final Standings

29.5 - Thinker 5.4c Inert
29.0 - Stockfish 1.4
27.0 - Grapefruit 1.0
24.5 - Bright 0.4a
23.5 - Delfi 5.4
23.0 - Frenzee Feb08
21.0 - Twisted Logic 20080620
18.5 - Booot 4.15.0
17.5 - Cyrano 0.6b17
17.5 - Alaric 707
17.5 - Movei 00.8.438 (10 10 10)
15.5 - Colossus 2008b

[Graham Banks]

Congratulations to Lance and Kerwin, and thanks to the authors of all engines involved.