Tournament of programs in international draughts

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

In Poland, in the town of Kórnik held from 17.08.2015 to 18.08.2015, will be held tournament among computer programs. The tournament will be played on the Swiss system, it's time for the party 20 minutes for 75 moves. In tournament will be attended by the following programs:

1. Aurora 3.6.11 - Alexander Svirin
2. Cerberus 2.3 - Leo Nagels
3. Dragon 4.5.0 - Michel Grimminck
4. Flits 3.02 - Adri Vermeulen
5. Horizon 4.5 - Feike Boomstra & Bert Tuyt
6. Kingsrow 1.56 - Edgar Gilbert
7. Moby Dam - Harm Jetten
8. Scan 2.0 - Fabien Letouzey
9. Tornado 7.07 - Frank Mesander
10. Truus voor Windows 1.0 - Stef Keetman

More details about the tournament, I invite for side http://www.chessarbiter.com/turnieje_wa ... index.html

Krzysztof.

[MichelG]

I am Awaiting the results...

Will you play all games with the damexchange prototcol?

Michel

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

The entire tournament will be played on two separate laptops with the same parameters of hardware (laptops specially bought for tournaments with the same equipment to be fair to all participants of the tournament). And so:

Processor - Intel Core i3 350M 2.27 GHz
Hard disc - HDD WD Scorpio Blue 1 TB
Memory of frames - 8 GB DDR3 1333
System - Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit Service Pack 1 PL

Krzysztof

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

Setting programmes during the tournament.

1. AURORA 3.6.11

Use book moves - ON
Book level - Best
Maximum move - 10
Hash - 3990
ED - 3000
Learn - 512 48%
Engine threads count - 1
Self-learning - ON
Use learning base - ON
The program uses from not full 8 figure base of endings.

2. CERBERUS 2.3

Pondering - ON

3. DRAGON 4.5

Max hashtable size - 4096 mb
Opening book - Tournament book
Number of cores - 2
Permanent brain - ON
Avoid draws - Not
The program uses from ‘big evaluation table’ as well as from not full 8 figure base of endings.

4. FLITS 3.02

Pondering - ON
Transpositietabel(MB) - 600
Eindspel databases - all enabled
The program uses from 6 figure base of endings.

5. HORIZON 4.5

HashTable - 256M
DB cache Size - 4G
DB Max Piece - 6
The program uses from 6 figure base of endings.

6. KINGSROW 1.56

Hashtable size (mb) - 512
Cache size (mb) - 6000
Max.pieces - 8
Search threads - 4
Opening book - Best moves
Pondering - ON
The program uses from full 8 figure base of endings.

7. MOBY DAM

Created tt with 33554432 entries (2^25)
Wiped tt with 33554432 entries
Size - 512MiB
Book positions- 8507
all 2-piece db files present
all 3-piece db files present
all 4-piece db files present
all 5-piece db files present
all 6-piece db files present
The program uses from 6 figure base of endings.

8. SCAN 2.0

Book - True
Book-margin -0
Threads -2
TT-size - 24
BB-size - 6
The program uses from 6 figure base of endings.

9. TORNADO 7.07

Pondering - ON
Hash Table Geheugen - 2G
The program uses from 6 figure base of endings.

10. TRUUS VOOR WINDOWS 1.0

Pondering - ON
Partijen database ruimte (MB) - 64
6 Stukken Database (anders 5) - ON
Stellingen ruimte (16K) - 10000
The program uses from 6 figure base of endings

Krzysztof.

[Fabien Letouzey]

Book-margin -2

Hi Krzysztof,

It's not very important but note that 2 means "random" (1 = normal and 0 = best). The difference is very small though.

I also assume that your i3(s) have 2 cores (and no hyper-threading), so I don't understand the "threads" settings in some of the engines.

Fabien.

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

Book-margin -2

Hi Krzysztof,

It's not very important but note that 2 means "random" (1 = normal and 0 = best). The difference is very small though.

I also assume that your i3(s) have 2 cores (and no hyper-threading), so I don't understand the "threads" settings in some of the engines.

Fabien.

Of course I change to 0. As for the processor's Intel Core I3 350M, the processor supports 2 cores and 4 threads. Fabien here you have everything processor Intel Core I3 350M http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_i3/I ... 161AC.html

[Birdy]

Hi!

I noticed that the Aurora version to play at the tournament is 3.6.11.
However the last available update at this date is 3.6.10...

Code: Select all

http://aurora.shashki.com/index.html

Where did you came up with 3.6.11?

Thank you.

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

Version 3.6.11 is available on the forum on side http://www.shashki.com/PNphpBB2-viewtop ... t-105.html

Krzysztof

[Birdy]

Thank you!

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

The tournament ended with the victory of the program Dragon, second place program Kingsrow and the third Truus voor Windows 1.0. Results of tournament.

1. Dragon 4.5.0 10 points
2. Kingsrow 1.56 10 points
3. Truus voor Windows 1.0 10 points
4. Scan 2.0 10 points
5. Flits 3.02 9 points
6. Horizon 4.5 6 points
7. Moby Dam 6 points
8. Tornado 7.07 4 points
9. Aurora 3.6.11 3 points
10. Cerberus 2.3 2 points

Sincere congratulations to Michela Grimminck, as well as the thanks of for remaining participants of tournament. Information about the tournament on the page http://www.chessarbiter.com/turnieje_wa ... index.html

[Catherine]

Thank Kryztof for this tournament.
Can we know where you got Horizon 4.5? It semm that the latest version is 4.3. Thanks.
Catherine.

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

Thank Kryztof for this tournament.
Can we know where you got Horizon 4.5? It semm that the latest version is 4.3. Thanks.
Catherine.

Please ask for the author engine Berta Tuyt. By the way, please write my name correctly, because a lot of people on this forum mistakenly wrote my name.

[Birdy]

Hi Krzysztof!

Great tournament!
If i may i will make a sugestion: in the next tournament you could make a "qualifying stage" between the previous last place (in this case Cerberus) and other programs like for example: Dream Dames, Plus 500, Windames 3D...
It's just an idea.

Please continue and good games.

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

I think that soon I will do a new tournament among programs 18 rounds system round-robin.

[Birdy]

OK.
Thx.

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