Computer Olympiad 2017 Draughts

[Jelle Wiersma]

This is the (provisional?) list of participants for the Computer Olympiad International Draughts
to be held at the 1st and 2nd of July in Leiden The Netherlands.

1. BIT.S.A.Y. Runze You (Peoples Republic of China)
2. Cerberus Leo Nagels (The Netherlands)
3. Deep Nikita Andrew Lin (U.S.A.)
4. Dragon Draughts Michel Grimminck (The Netherlands)
5. GWD Gijsbert Wiesenekker (The Netherlands)
6. Moby Dam Harm Jetten (The Netherlands)
7. Scan Fabien Letouzey (France)
8. Sjende Blyn Jelle Wiersma (The Netherlands)
9. Slagzet.com Maurits Meijer (The Netherlands)
10. TdKing Ton Tillemans (Switserland)
11. Tornado Frank Mesander (The Netherlands)

Two participants have applied for a second tournament “Computer Olympiad Brazilian Draughts”.
As most of you will know, Brazilian Draughts follows the same rules as the International Game, the only difference is the
fact, that it is played on the 8 x 8 Chessboard.
The (once again provisional?) list of participants for this tournament :

1. BCerberus Leo Nagels (The Netherlands)
2. Td King Ton Tillemans (Switserland)

Leo Nagels

[igorlemasson]

Great news,

Nice to see old and new actors in action
Unfortunately the Draughts competitions are not yet properly published on ICGA website
It can be seen only on Event Schedule

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

I have a question about the Olympics. Whether during the Olympics the playing person can participate with not one's program.

[Maurits Meijer]

I have a question about the Olympics. Whether during the Olympics the playing person can participate with not one's program.

I believe it's the other way around: A program can participate but the owner doesn't have to be the operator.

[Jelle Wiersma]

The tournament will be doublerounded with playing time of 20 minutes per player per game (75 moves)
Jaap Bus will be referee.
No playoff, Sonnenberg Berger score may decide on the final outcome.

There will be another minor tournament Brazilian Draughts with 3 participants.
Participants : BCerberus, Td King and Deep Nikita.
There will be a doublerounded tournament with playing time of 15 minutes per player per game.
There will be no referee.

Fr gr
Leo Nagels

[BertTuyt]

From Switzerland I wish all my Computer Draughts friends a very enjoyable tournament and may the best win.
Hope that someone can post intermediate results on this forum during the tournament.

Bert

[MichelG]

Congratulations to Fabien Letouzey again!

Results:

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1. Scan                33
2. Sjende Blyn         32
3. Dragon Draughts     32
4. Moby dam            27
5. Tornado             22
6. TDKing              21
7. GWD                 19
8. Deep Nikita         13
9. Cerberus            12
10. Slagzet.com         7
11. Bit S.a.y.          0

[BertTuyt]

Congratulations to Fabien...
A difference of 1 point between position 2-3 and 1 is not much, but enough for the victory.

Bert

[Fabien Letouzey]

Congratulations to Fabien...
A difference of 1 point between position 2-3 and 1 is not much, but enough for the victory.

Bert

Many programs, Scan included, have improved this year. It is becoming tougher than ever.

[Rein Halbersma]

Congratulations to Fabien...
A difference of 1 point between position 2-3 and 1 is not much, but enough for the victory.

Bert

Many programs, Scan included, have improved this year. It is becoming tougher than ever.

Congrats on your triple crown! What improvements did you make, and what did you notice in other programs? Will you publish your changes?

[Fabien Letouzey]

Congrats on your triple crown! What improvements did you make, and what did you notice in other programs? Will you publish your changes?

I see that the rate of your questions has improved as well

At least the authors of the following engines have claimed progress: Deep Nikita, Dragon Draughts, GWD, Scan, Sjende Blyn, and Slagzet.com. I could clearly see it for GWD and Slagzet.com. A sample of two games looks tiny, but the authors confirmed that they observed a large progress in other games.

Nothing visible for the top programs of course; only long matches will hopefully confirm anything. Elo-wise there are only few changes in Scan; most of the work was re-organising the code around immutable position representations. Eval is better and faster, thanks to larger patterns (which reduces their number) and higher-quality examples. QS is a tiny bit better as well by extending "opponent can capture" positions at the first ply of QS. Nothing else that I recall.

I am planning a 3.0 release in 1-2 weeks with the tournament version (with support for selected variants), and later perhaps a 3.1 one with some minor user-facing features like additional DXP options on request.

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

Congratulations to Fabien. Would like to ask something that interests me. Please write how someone knows what program I use Jaap Bus during the tournament.

[Jelle Wiersma]

Congratulations to Fabien. Would like to ask something that interests me. Please write how someone knows what program I use Jaap Bus during the tournament.

Jaap Bus uses a simple excel sheet to track the results of the games (it does not include Sonnenberg-Berger, so it took us some time to figure out who was 2nd and who was 3rd...)

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

Jaap Bus uses a simple excel sheet to track the results of the games (it does not include Sonnenberg-Berger, so it took us some time to figure out who was 2nd and who was 3rd...)

Thank you for the information Jelle. I wish I had the exact results I would have calculated privately Sonnenberg-Berger.

[TAILLE]

Hi Fabien,

Congratulations to you for this new victory. Scan is undoubtely the current best program.
Are the games available for post analysis?

BTW did you see my last post concerning the game Scan - Mobydam?