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31st User Tournament Leiden Announcement |
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The CSVN organizes again a user tournament on Saturday, 17 October 2015. We start at 10:00, so we invite you to be at the premises on time. The location will open at 9:30. At 17:00, we will close with the prize giving ceremony. For those who want to participate, please send an email to Luuk Hofman, Duivendrecht, Monday 5 October the latest. The email address is info@schaakcomputers.nl. There is, as usual, no registration fee. If you like to participate but you do not have a good chess computer, it is possible to arrange one for you. And if you only want to watch, you're welcome too! Rules of the 31st User TournamentMaximal playing strength for this edition is 2200 ELO. The playing strenght is according to the “Aktiv” norm of the Wiki list. In principal only listed computers with a rating less than or equal to the above mentioned playing strength can participate: http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki...Wiki-Elo-Liste. Because of the limited time the time control for the tournament is 30 minutes per game per computer. To have special computers (not on the list above) participate, the tournament leader can decide to let this computer play. It must be clear that the computer does not exceed the above mentioned playing strength. Participation is with a dedicated chess computer, which means a computer specially made to play chess. E.g. with a wooden or plastic board or a portable chess computer. Other forms, e.g. a laptop with chess program, are not allowed. The user can always offer a draw. The game is lost for a player who's time has run out. An external clock will be used and if necessary external chess boards, The organisation will take care of that. It is allowed to set the level at the beginning of the game. It is also allowed to change the level during the game, unless the computer is thinking. It is not allowed to force the computer to move. Robot computer can be an exception for the clock due to their slow behavior. For a game with a robot computer the internal clock of that robot computer is the clock to use for both players. The tournament leader will decide in all other cases. |
On the last day before
the Tournament, two
players cancelled their
participation:
- Geert Roelof van der
Ploeg who was very sick.
We wish him all the best
and a prompt recovery.
- Maurice van Leeuwen
who drove with Geert
Roelof and had a family
issue.
Eight players remained.
Hans van der Zijden
asked if he could join
with his own program
Gadget.
After a vote, we
decided to welcome him
in the tournament.
Finally, there were 9
participants.
To have an even number
of computer
participants, I decided
to bring also the Berlin
68000 beside the SPARC.
This raised the number of
computers in the
competition to 10.
Leiden User Tournaments
are always a good
opportunity to meet other collectors.
The discussions are very
enjoyable.
We are in turn teachers
and pupils and it is
always great to discover
something new or to help
somebody to discover a
new way to evaluate
chess computers.
Mostly all the
discussions are around chess computers.
That was the first time
we had a tournament
including computers
below 2200 ELO.
The level was high and
there was some
excitement at the idea
of the competition.
We knew it
would be a close combat
until the
last round.
Swiss system. Precision
and fair arbitrage...
However, Hans van der Zijden
made a small
error of evaluation ....
After 3 rounds, the
Vancouver defeated Gadget with 0
to
3... a disaster...
After 6 rounds, there
was no winner.
The games of the
three favorites: SPARC, Star Diamond and
Vancouver
We played
each side 30 min for the
game, and with an
external clock on the side.
In such a way that the operator can set
time management as he
wants or he can choose
other settings only when
his computer have moved>
Interrupting the thinking
process is not allowed, of course.
Some German players
joined us as
well: Olaf Jansen and
Heinz Gert Lehmann with
the Milano Pro and the
Vancouver 68000.
Since I decided to bring 2 computers,
the SPARC and the Berlin 68000,
I was feeling the time
pressure to play with
both of them.
The SPARC was a BIG
disappointment:
- against Gadget, it got
one win;
- against the Star Diamond,
it was played away;
- against
Deep Sjeng, SPARC was in a winning
position when the flag dropped;
- against the REV II
Diablo, SPARC was
unable to
recognize a dangerous
pawn.
To be honest, I
expected more success from the
SPARC: it played some
openings with a fiasco.
At this moment, it
became clear for me that
it was playing bad openings: if a computer does not
understand the opening
it will play or plan it
the consequences could
be dramatic.
Example: versus
Star Diamond, it played
Na6??, when everyone knows
that the Knight must be
played to d7 to avoid
the e5 pawn push...
The
Berlin 68000 performed
better: until the last round
it could have taken the
second
place, but a draw versus
SPARC was not giving a 2nd place,
but a 4th place.
The Winner, the Star Diamond,
was oustdanding
in this tournament
and deserved
to win the tournament.
For the second
place, the surprise came
from a
Prototype TM Machine
Almeria on 20mhz
operated and own by Ruud
Martin.
A truly
nice and rare computer to see.
Also at the
second place was the Vancouver 68000 who
played the last round versus
the Star Diamond and
lost.
More info
here:
www.schachcomputer.info
www.computerschaak.nl/index.php/gebruikerstoernooi-30
Nr Name Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Score 1 Novag Star Diamond 0 x ½ 1 1 1 1 1 5.5 2 Mephisto TM Almeria 0 ½ x ½ 1 ½ 1 1 4.5 3 Mephisto Vancouver 16 bit 0 0 ½ x 1 1 1 1 4.5 4 Mephisto Berlin 68000 0 0 x ½ 1 1 ½ 1 4.0 5 Revelation 2 Diablo 0 0 0 ½ x ½ 1 1 3.0 6 Mephisto Milano Pro 0 ½ 0 0 x ½ 1 1 3.0 7 Resurection Deep Sjeng 0 0 0 0 ½ x 1 1 2.5 8 Saitek Sparc 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 x 1 2.0 9 Fidelity Elite V2 0 0 0 0 0 0 x 1 1.0 10 Gadget 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 x 0.0
User computer Tournament - ELO Max 2300
User computer Tournament - ELO Max 2300
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