Swiss Tournament Programs

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

In the near future, I would like to conduct a Swiss tournament among programs in international draughts. Any program can take part in the tournament. Information about the tournament - game time - 15 minutes for 75 moves + 5 seconds per move, rounds 9. The following programs will participate in the tournament:

Ares 1.91 - Joost Buijs - Netherlands
Cerberus 6.11 - Leo Nagels - Netherlands
Damage 16.1 - Bert Tuyt - Netherlands
Dragon Pro 4.6.2 - Michel Grimminck - Netherlands
Dream Gaïa 1.4 - Saïd Koudache - France
Edeon Sport 5.4.312 - Alexey Odnoklubov, Vasily Naumik, Victor Naumik - Belarus
Flits 3.02 - Adri Vermeulen - Netherlands
GWD 4.01 - Gijsbert Wiesenekker - Netherlands
IDames 9 Neuronal - Ngandeu Boris - Cameroon
Kingsrow 1.63 - Edgar Gilbert - United States of America
Maximus 2.02 - Jan-Jaap van Horssen - Netherlands
Moby Dam (Jul 12 2023) - Harm Jetten - Netherlands
Plus 500 6.56.2 - Serge Startsev - Russia
Scan 3.1 - Fabien Letouzey - France
Sjende Blyn 2026 - Jelle Wiersma - Netherlands
Tornado 7.26b - Frank Mesander - Netherlands
Truus voor Windows 1.0 - Stef Keetman - Netherlands

Unfortunately, I do not yet know when the tournament will begin as well as end. I will inform about everything on the forum. If any programmer would like to share the latest version of his program - you are welcome and thank you in advance. For more information about the tournament, visit https://www.swisstournament2026.draught ... eGames.php and https://results.fmjd.org/tournaments/20 ... index.html. During the tournament I will use the program DraughtsArbiter Pro. The tournament is played on two identical computers with the following hardware parameters:

processor - AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 3.0 GHz
hard drive - Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD 2 TB
memory ram - Kingston HyperX Fury 128 GB DDR4 2400 MHz CL15
monitor - Nec MultiSync EA245 WMi
keyboard - A4Tech KV-300H Slim
mouse - Razer DeathAdder Essential
operating system - Microsoft Windows 11 Professional 64 bit

Engine setting during the tournament:

Ares NNUE - Joost Buijs - Netherlands
Book - On
Threads - 32
TT-size - 32
Bucket-size - 4
Large memory pages - On
Pondering - On
The program uses from full 6 figure base of endings

Cerberus - Leo Nagels - Netherlands
Threads - 2
Book - On
Pondering - On
The program uses from full 6 figure base of endings

Damage NNUE - Bert Tuyt - Netherlands
Book - 0n
Threads - 32
NNUE-file - nn_20210328.gnn
TT-persistent - On
TT-size - 24
BB-cache - 5
BB-size - 7
BB-preload - 7
The program uses from full 7 figure base of endings

Dragon - Michel Grimminck - Netherlands
Max hashtable size - 16384 mb
Big evaluation table - 1243 mb
Opening book - Tournament book
Number of cores - 16
Permanent brain - On
Avoid draws - Not
The program uses from not full 8 figure base of endings

Dream - Saïd Koudache - France
Threads - 1
Utiliser bibliothčque d'ouvertures - On
Utiliser bibliothčque de finales - On
Réflexion sus temps adverse - On
Taille en Ko, pour les Hash Tables - 1024
The program does not use base of endings

Edeon Sport - Alexey Odnoklubov, Vasily Naumik, Victor Naumik - Belarus
Threads - 1
Use debuts book - On
The program uses from not full 8 figure base of endings

Flits - Adri Vermeulen - Netherlands
Threads - 1
Transpositietabel(Mb) - 1770
Pondering - On
The program does not use base of endings

GWD - Gijsbert Wiesenekker - Netherlands
Threads - 32
Hashtable size - 16384
Opening book - On
Pondering - On
The program uses from full 7 figure base of endings

IDames 9 Neuronal - Ngandeu Boris - Cameroon
Threads - 32
Hashtable size - 384
Opening book - On
The program uses from full 7 figure base of endings

Kingsrow - Edgar Gilbert - United States of America
Hashtable size (mb) - 512
Cache size (mb) - 30000
Max.pieces - 8
Search threads - 16
Opening book - Best moves
Pondering - On
The program uses from full 8 figure base of endings

Maximus - Jan-Jaap van Horssen - Netherlands
Threads - 8
Opening book - On
Book margin - 0.01
Pondering - On
Transposition Table - 32 M positions (25 bits)
The program uses from full 6 figure base of endings

Moby Dam - Harm Jetten - Netherlands
Opening book - Off
Threads - 8
TT-size - 28
Pondering - On
Large memory pages - On
The program uses from full 6 figure base of endings

Plus 500 - Serge Startsev - Russia
Threads - 1
The openings book - On
Self-learning - On
Endgames DB - On
The program uses from full 6 figure base of endings

Scan - Fabien Letouzey - France
Hub - On
Variant - Normal
Book - On
Book ply - 4
Book-margin - 4
Pondering - On
Threads - 16
TT-size - 26
BB-size - 6
The program uses from full 6 figure base of endings

Sjende Blyn 2026 - Jelle Wiersma - Netherlands
Threads - 32
Strength - Maximum
Pondering - On
The program uses from full 6 figure base of endings

Tornado - Frank Mesander - Netherlands
Threads - 5
Pondering - On
Hash Table Geheugen - 2G
The program uses from full 6 figure base of endings

Truus voor Windows - Stef Keetman - Netherlands
Threads - 1
Pondering - On
Partijen database ruimte (MB) - 64
6 Stukken Database (anders 5) - On
Stellingen ruimte (16K) - 10000
The program uses from full 6 figure base of endings

If anyone has any questions - please ask - I will answer.

Krzysztof