AUGUST 2025 BLITZ TOURNAMENT

[Sidiki]

Hi to all programmer,

I plan to run a blitz TOURNAMENT of 10 minutes / 110 moves, this 20th august 2025.

So this one will be so exciting.
I have 2 computers to permit pondering and more Ram access to permit to every engine to express itself.

I will use the Core i9 12900K , with a processor that displays a counter of 16 cornes and 24 threads as well as a frequency up to 5.2 GHz with Turbo Boost Max technology.

List of available engines. The maximum core and settings will be use for each engine depending of what it support.

Ares NNUE 1.81 / 6 EGDB
Damage 16.1 NNUE / 6 EGDB
Dragon 4.6.2 / 7 EGDB
Flits 3.1 / 6 EGDB
GWD 7.8733 / 7 EGDB
Horizon 5.0/ 6 EGDB
Kingsrow 1.63 / 8 EGDB
Maximus 2.02 / 6 EGDB
Mobydam / 6 EGDB
Scan 3.1 / 6 EGDB
Tornado 7.25 NN46d / 6EGDB
Truus 1.0 / 6 EGDB


Friendly, Sidiki.

[Sidiki]

Hi everybody,

List updated of available engines. The maximum core and settings will be use for each engine depending of what it support.

Ares AI v.1.9 / 6 EGDB
Damage 16.1 NNUE / 6 EGDB
Dragon 4.6.2 / 7 EGDB
Flits 3.1 / 6 EGDB
GWD 3.70 / 7 EGDB
Horizon 5.0/ 6 EGDB
Kingsrow 1.63 / 8 EGDB
Maximus 2.02 / 6 EGDB
Mobydam 2023/ 6 EGDB
Scan 3.1 / 6 EGDB
Tornado 7.25 NN46d / 6EGDB
Truus 1.0 / 6 EGDB


Friendly, Sidiki.

[Sidiki]

Hi everybody,

This's the link of the tournament :
https://results.fmjd.org/tournaments/2025/f_1228/

Have a nice Day.

Friendly, Sidiki

[Joost Buijs]

Hi Sidiki,

Thanks for the information.

I assume it's not possible to watch the games live? Probably you have to type in all the moves by hand after a game has been played.

Anyway, thank you for organizing this tournament.

Joost

[Sidiki]

Hi Joost,

Yes, unfortunally, it will not be possible to see the live. I already started the games.

I will publish them. You are right with the idea to publish each game When it's finished.
I will find the perhaps, soon, to enable the live.

Friendly, Sidiki

[Sidiki]

Hi everybody,

Round 1 finished.
Second round in the afternoon.
I started early. I will find time to sleep.
Good luck to anyone and Thanks for all.

Friendly, Sidiki.

[Joost Buijs]

Hi Sidiki,

Thanks!

I tried to replay some of these games with the applet, somehow only a small number of moves are shown. I've downloaded the PDN, and checked the game Ares vs Truus, the PDN seems to be fine. Maybe something went wrong when transferring the moves to Draughts Arbiter Pro?

Joost

Edit: The Ares vs Truus game now seems to work, but some of the others are still broken.

[Sidiki]

Hi Joost,

Thanks, understood, yes i fixed the Ares vs Truus game.
i will fix these others broken errors.

Friendly, Sidiki

[Joost Buijs]

Hi Sidiki,

It's nice that you want to enter all these games by hand, and I don't want to bother you, but it mysteriously seems to be broken again.

Joost

[Sidiki]

Hi everybody,

Round 2 finished.
Yes Joost, i saw the problem. It's when games are loaded, so for some games, server error, i need to copy and paste manually to update the games.

It will no happen anymore, i found the solution.

Friendly, Sidiki

[Sidiki]

Hi everybody,

Round 3 finished.
https://results.fmjd.org/tournaments/20 ... index.html

Friendly, Sidiki

[Sidiki]

Hi everybody,

Round 4 finished.
https://results.fmjd.org/tournaments/2025/f_1228/

Friendly, Sidiki

[Sidiki]

Hi everybody.

I played round 5 and a part of round 6 all the night, so round 6 it's finished now.

https://results.fmjd.org/tournaments/2025/f_1228/

Friendly,Sidiki

[Joost Buijs]

Hi Sidiki,

Thanks for your hard work, you deserve to take some rest.

I'm comparing different types of hardware, can you tell me how many nodes per second Ares does at the beginning of the game on the i9-12900K (assuming it uses 16 threads)? Just interested.

Joost

[Sidiki]

Hi Joost,

About 95 to 110

Friendly, Sidiki