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Dear Chess Friends!

This time I decided to run a new competition,
which is based on Top 20 open-source chess engines!

Tournament Conditions:
Hardwares: i7 980X / i7 970
Hyper-Treading: OFF
Large Pages: OFF
GUI: Arena 3.0
TC:3 min + 2 sec
Engine Threads: 1 core
Pondering: ON
Perfect 2014t book
Hashrtable Size: 128 MB
EGTB: OFF

General Rules:
•Each participant must be an open-source chess engine and original work
•Only ‘top 20 open source chess engines’ are planing to be as participants
•It’s allowed only 1 (one) participant per chess engine programmer
•In case of often bugs (loose on time,no ponder) the engine will be changed
•Adjudication of draw games is allowed by tournament director

And here are the current participants:

Arasan 17.2 x64
Bison 9.11 x64
Bobcat 3.25 x64
Booot 5.2.0 x64
Cheng4 0.36c x64
Crafty 24 x64
Cyrano 0.6b17 x64
DiscoCheck 5.2 x64
EXchess v7.26a
Gull 3 x64
MinkoChess 1.3 x64
Octochess r5190 x64 (this engine did not play on Windows XP x64, but it plays on Windows 8)
Pawny 1.0 x64
Protector 1.6.0 x64
Redqueen 1.1.97 x64
Rodent 1.4 x64 (the 64-bit engine did not play on Windows XP x64, but no problems on Windows 8)
Scorpio 2.7.7 (each game forfeits on time on Windows XP x64, but on Windows 8 no problems so far)
Senpai 1.0 x64
Stockfish 140614 x64
Texel 1.04 x64


*Engines, which have ponder bugs (the below both engines don't ponder):
Tucano 4.00 x64
Vajolet2 1.28 x64

Note: Only those engines will be tested, which are capable to play when pondering is enabled !

More info coming soon...


Best,
Sedat