DOUAISIS 2009 / TD IS THE KING !!

[Jacques PERMAL]

PODIUM

1. TON TILLEMANS (TD KING)
2. GERARD TAILLE (DAMY)
3. ED GILBERT (KINGSROW)

The true third is BERT TUYT. But he was in a hurry. So he couldn't be on the podium for the photo.



PHOTO : SAID KOUDACHE

[Jacques PERMAL]

http://toernooibase.kndb.nl/opvraag/sta ... =1350&jr=9

[Jacques PERMAL]

SOFTWARES PODIUM



Photo : PASCAL JAUFFRIT

[Rein Halbersma]

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Arleux2009    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 TOTAL   
1 TD King     . 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 2    11 
2 Damy        1 . 1 1 2 0 2 2 2    11 
3 KingsRow    1 1 . 1 1 2 1 1 2    10 
4 Damage      1 1 1 . 1 1 1 2 2    10 
5 Sjende Blyn 1 0 1 1 . 1 1 2 2     9 
6 Tornado     0 2 0 1 1 . 1 1 2     8 
7 Dam 2.2     1 0 1 1 1 1 . 1 1     7 
8 Horizon     0 0 1 0 0 1 1 . 2     5 
9 Dream       0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .     1 

The same program also won the 14th COmputer Olympiad in Pamplona a few days earlier (for the 3rd time in the last 4 years):

http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/t ... php?id=199

[TAILLE]

Hi,

Congratulation to Ton Tillemans for this convincing victory. To finish before Damy, Kingsrow and Damage is surely a great performance and it is significant concerning the strength of TDKing.

We can now conclude that 4 programms are leading the computer draugths world. Sjende Blyn is just a little behind but, for strange reason, she has often difficulties against Damy. No doubt that Jeel Wiersma will find the problem.

Of course nobody knows what will be the future and the other programms may also make a lot of progress!

Gérard

[Rein Halbersma]

Hi,

Congratulation to Ton Tillemans for this convincing victory. To finish before Damy, Kingsrow and Damage is surely a great performance and it is significant concerning the strength of TDKing.

We can now conclude that 4 programms are leading the computer draugths world. Sjende Blyn is just a little behind but, for strange reason, she has often difficulties against Damy. No doubt that Jeel Wiersma will find the problem.

Of course nobody knows what will be the future and the other programms may also make a lot of progress!

Gérard

Hi Gérard,

You are a very generous guy to be so polite after the horrors of hardware failure! Otherwise you might well have continued your French title. In any case, are the games available in PDN already? (I have Kingsrows and those of Dam 2.2 are on Harm's website).

Also, I found the tie-break rule quite surprising. Why wasn't there a normal sudden-death play-off game between Damy & TDKing? It seems a bit strange to let a human play 2 games against tied programs. Was this decided before the tournament or was it a spontaneous idea?

A question for Feike: whas your new program Horizon the same as BoomstraDam in December? Or did you have new parallel hardware/algorithms that were not yet quite stable enough?

Rein

[TAILLE]

Hi Rein,

... the horrors of hardware failure!...

In fact I am not able to say if it was a hardware failure or a software bug.
The only thing I know is that Windows XP displayed a message saying it was facing disk acces problem.
Unfortunatly I do not know how I can reproduce this problem!

Gérard

[wellnesswrotter]

You can also input games into Toernooibase.

http://toernooibase.kndb.nl/opvraag/sta ... =1350&jr=9

There is also a English version!

[FeikeBoomstra]

A question for Feike: whas your new program Horizon the same as BoomstraDam in December? Or did you have new parallel hardware/algorithms that were not yet quite stable enough?

Rein

No parallel problems I think, serious problems with my eval function. I am still investigating. It looks that "improvements" didn't work out as such. And against TD_King I had a very strange problem, the number of evaluated nodes/sec went down with around 40 times. I have seen that a few times earlier, but I can't reproduce it. No idea where to look for.

[Piet Bouma]

You can also input games into Toernooibase.

http://toernooibase.kndb.nl/opvraag/sta ... =1350&jr=9

There is also a English version!

The games of Dam 2.2 are with applet(s) in Toernooibase/Tournamentbase.
Maybe the other competitors can send their games in .pdn by mail! [img]images/smilies/icon_idea.gif[/img]
pboumaharl apesturt hetnet.nl

English version: http://toernooibase.kndb.nl/opvraag/sta ... 9&afko=&r=

[TAILLE]

Hi,

Good news; I managed to reproduce the crash program and the problem is now solved. It was a simple typing error; instead of writing a "d=5" instruction in a specific breakthrough calculation I wrote "n=5" disturbing completly the program.
That is part of the life.

[Jacques PERMAL]

Global view of assembly. The white-dressed man is SAID KOUDACHE (DREAM, bottom, organizer of software tournament).

Photo : Madam TAILLE

[Jacques PERMAL]

GLOBAL PODIUM OF CONCEPTORS



Photo : Madam TAILLE

[Jacques PERMAL]

Top contest DAMY-TD KING looked by J. PERMAL



Photo : Madam TAILLE

[Krzychumag]

Classement du tournoi des logiciels / SOFTWARE STANDINGS

1. TD KING (T. TILLEMANS)11 pts
2. DAMY (G. TAILLE) 11 pts
3. DAMAGE (B. TUYT) 10 pts
4. KINGSROW (E. GILBERT) 10 pts
5. SJENDE BLYN (J. WIERSMA) 09 pts
6. TORNADO (F. MESANDER) 08 pts
7. HORIZON ( F. BOOMSTRA) 5 pts
8. DREAM (S. KOUDACHE) 1 pt

DAMY a été défait par TORNADO suite à un "crash" de système. G. TAILLE a été obligé de redémarrer sa machine alors que la pendule continuait à aller de l'avant.

Un départage thématique a été organisé afin de désigner le vainqueur. TD KING s'est révélé plus fringuant.

TORNADO won DAMY after a computer crash. G. TAILLE had to restart machine.
TD KING won DAMY after barrage.

More later.

TEAMS TOURNAMENT

1. MONROUGE 1 (M. KOUAME, A. TETY & F. NDONZI)
2. MONTROUGE 2 (N. CAMARA, P. JAUFFRIT & P. ZEH)
3. ROUEN (J. BEYAERT, D. DUVAL & J. PERMAL)

Whether on which days somebody knows (on which day) these tournament were held. It for information thanks from mountain.

--Krzysztof.