(Y)et (A)nother (T)ournament
An experiment also.
I am willing to start something new and if there is interest enough repeat it.
YAT is a computer-computer tournament that emulates a human-human tournament or a SSDF | ICGA | CSVN | CCT tournament as close as possible in the sense that opening books are allowed, all kind of learning is allowed, opponent preparation is allowed and last but not least that engine authors have the right to know the name and elo rating of the opponent.
Specifics:
Komodo
3274
2500
Red being the opponent elo, green the elo rating of your program. You can choose to ignore this information but on the other hand if you for instance know your opponent is 500-600 elo better then maybe it's a smart move to set your contempt factor on a full pawn (or so) and take the first occasion on a 3-fold repetion and celebrate the ½ point as a victory.
If you don't want to use the OPPONENT.TXT textfile as input because your engine supports the Winboard or UCI command for that then you should inform me explicitly.
Other stipulations
Suggested start at December 1, 2015 so you can make preparations.
If you are interested subscribe using the contact form.
List of subscribed programs.
Program | Version | Author | Start ELO | Country | Book positions | Book learning | Position learning | Opponent learning | |
1. | 1.06 | Peter Österlund | 3044 | Sweden | 379.000 | ||||
2. | 0.83/084 | Daniel José Queraltó | 3029 | Andorra | Polyglot book | ||||
3. | 2.0 | Thomas Petzke | 2923 | Germany | 500.000 | ||||
4. | Maarten Claessens | 2921 | Netherlands | 30.000 | yes | yes | |||
5. | 2.0 | Marco Belli | 2905 | Italy | |||||
6. | 1.0 | Miguel Ballicora | 2883 | Argentina | |||||
7. | 18.2 | Jon Dart | 2863 | USA | 500.000 | yes | yes | ||
8. | 2.0 | Ed Schröder | 2702 | Netherlands | 9 million | not used | not used | yes | |
9. | fribourg | Alexandru Moșoi | 2440 | Romania | Perfect2010 |
Initial ELO ratings are CCRL based.
WaDuuttie is a private engine without a CCRL rating and gained a provisional elo rating of 2921 after 200 games.
Bottom line of this tournament is if the initial elo ratings will change much.
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Pairing
created with stChess
With 9 engines we will play 30 rounds producing 1080 x 40/20 games all together, thus each engine will play 240 games.
Because of the trouble to configure each game with the right parameters concerning opponent learning (OPPONENT.TXT or its Winboard equivalent RATING) and the big time delays that will cause we will speedup the tournament by letting the engines play 30 (instead of 1) games in 9 rounds against each other. So the complete paring for this first edition of YAT will be:
Round 1 | 30 games | |
Andscacs | Zurichess | 29.5 - 0.5 |
iCE | ProDeo | 23.5 - 6.5 |
WaDuuttie | Arasan | 12 - 18 |
Vajolet | Gaviota | 15 - 15 |
Texel | bye |
Round 4 | ||
ProDeo | Gaviota | 6.5 - 23.5 |
Zurichess | Vajolet | 1 - 29 |
Texel | WaDuuttie | 19 - 11 |
Andscacs | iCE | 20 - 10 |
Arasan | bye |
Round 7 | ||
Vajolet | iCE | 20 - 10 |
Gaviota | Andscacs | 14.5-15.5 |
Arasan | Texel | 7.5 - 22.5 |
ProDeo | Zurichess | 28 - 2 |
WaDuuttie | bye |
Round 2 | 30 games | |
Arasan | Vajolet | 14 - 16 |
ProDeo | WaDuuttie | 11 - 19 |
Zurichess | iCE | 2 - 28 |
Texel | Andscacs | 11.5-18.5 |
Gaviota | bye |
Round 5 | ||
WaDuuttie | Andscacs | 11.5-18.5 |
Vajolet | Texel | 10 - 20 |
Gaviota | Zurichess | 29 - 1 |
Arasan | ProDeo | 22 - 8 |
iCE | bye |
Round 8 | ||
Texel | ProDeo | 22 - 8 |
Andscacs | Arasan | 22.5 - 7.5 |
iCE | Gaviota | 14 - 16 |
WaDuuttie | Vajolet | 17.5-12.5 |
Zurichess | bye |
Round 3 | 30 games | |
iCE | Texel | 9 - 21 |
aDuuttie | Zurichess | 29 - 1 |
Vajolet | ProDeo | 21 - 9 |
Gaviota | Arasan | 13.5-16.5 |
Andscacs | bye |
Round 6 | ||
Zurichess | Arasan | 1.5 - 28.5 |
Texel | Gaviota | 18.5-11.5 |
Andscacs | Vajolet | 20.5 - 9.5 |
iCE | WaDuuttie | 14 - 16 |
ProDeo | bye |
Round 9 | ||
Gaviota | WaDuuttie | 10 - 20 |
Arasan | iCE | 17 - 13 |
ProDeo | Andscacs | 4.5 - 25.5 |
Zurichess | Texel | 0 - 30 |
Vajolet | bye |
Because the most likely scenario is that the battle for the tournament victory will be
between Texel and Andscacs we will play round 2 as last round to
keep the tension to the last moment.
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Live Support
using TLCV
broadcasting all 1080 games live
Download Tom's Live Chess Viewer and log in as follows:
HOST yatchess.ddns.net
PORT 16001
and/or
Start a new TLCV session and use PORT's 16002 | 16003 | 16004
Doing so you can watch all 4 matches in progress.
Important TLCV features: PGN | Chat | Result Table
Remark: TLCV and Arena sometimes miscommunicate at the start of a new game and have the colors wrong. This oddity (bug) however has no effect on the engines itself, the result table is okay, the PGN for download likewise. Another visual glitch that may happen (or not) is that the TLCV clocks are not in sync with the Arena clocks.
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Cross table
created with ProTools
No. Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Score ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Andscacs xxxx 18.5 18.5 15.5 20.5 22.5 20.0 25.5 29.5 170.5 / 240 (71.0%) 2 Texel 1.06a 11.5 xxxx 19.0 18.5 20.0 22.5 21.0 22.0 30.0 164.5 / 240 (68.5%) 3 WaDuuttie 11.5 11.0 xxxx 20.0 17.5 12.0 16.0 19.0 29.0 136.0 / 240 (56.6%) 4 Gaviota 14.5 11.5 10.0 xxxx 15.0 13.5 16.0 23.5 29.0 133.0 / 240 (55.4%) 5 Vajolet2 2.0 9.5 10.0 12.5 15.0 xxxx 16.0 20.0 21.0 29.0 133.0 / 240 (55.4%) 6 Arasan 18.2 7.5 7.5 18.0 16.5 14.0 xxxx 17.0 22.0 28.5 131.0 / 240 (54.5%) 7 iCE 2 10.0 9.0 14.0 14.0 10.0 13.0 xxxx 23.5 28.0 121.5 / 240 (50.6%) 8 ProDeo 2.0 4.5 8.0 11.0 6.5 9.0 8.0 6.5 xxxx 28.0 81.5 / 240 (33.9%) 9 Zurichess 0.5 0.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.0 xxxx 9.0 / 240 (3.7%)
Initial ratings
created with ORDO
# ENGINE : RATING POINTS PLAYED (%) 1 Texel 1.06a : 3044.0 0.0 0 0.0% 2 Andscacsn 0.83 : 3029.0 0.0 0 0.0% 3 Ice2 : 2923.0 0.0 0 0.0% 4 WaDuuttie : 2921.0 0.0 0 0.0% 5 Vajolet2 2.0 : 2905.0 0.0 0 0.0% 6 Gaviota 1.0 : 2883.0 0.0 0 0.0% 7 Arasan 18.1 : 2863.0 0.0 0 0.0% 8 ProDeo 2.0 : 2702.0 0.0 0 0.0% 9 Zurichess : 2440.0 0.0 0 0.0%
# PLAYER : RATING POINTS PLAYED (%) ELO 1 Andscacs : 3035.5 170.5 240 71.0% +6 2 Texel 1.06a : 3016.0 164.5 240 68.5% -28 3 WaDuuttie : 2928.0 136.0 240 56.7% +7 4 Gaviota : 2918.9 133.0 240 55.4% +35 5 Vajolet2 2.0 : 2918.9 133.0 240 55.4% +13 6 Arasan 18.2 : 2912.9 131.0 240 54.6% +49 7 iCE 2 : 2884.2 121.5 240 50.6% -39 8 ProDeo 2.0 : 2755.0 81.5 240 34.0% +53 9 Zurichess : 2334.6 9.0 240 3.8% -106 Total games 1080 - White wins 384 - Draws 396 - Black wins 300
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Tournament Statistics
Depths, Time control, Book
created with ProTools
Engine Depth Time Games Moves Average Forfeit Book Zurichess 14.50 89:41:36 240 8702 37.11 84 1544 (6.43) Gaviota 17.27 152:16:24 240 16307 33.62 0 3034 (12.64) Texel 1.06a 17.91 127:10:59 240 14618 31.32 0 2020 (8.42) WaDuuttie 21.55 137:36:53 240 16726 29.62 0 2326 (9.69) Andscacs 23.19 128:45:26 240 15704 29.52 0 2344 (9.77) Arasan 18.2 23.47 132:51:02 240 16258 29.42 0 2702 (11.26) iCE 2 18.36 131:45:39 240 16850 28.15 0 2584 (10.77) ProDeo 2.0 14.73 104:09:02 240 13863 27.05 0 2714 (11.31) Vajolet2 2.0 23.02 121:49:05 240 16482 26.61 0 2199 (9.16)
Time control comparison between engines
Depth : Average search depth
Time : Total time engine used
Moves : Total moves engine played
Average : Average time per move in centi-seconds
Forfeit : Games engine lost due to time forfeit
Book : The engine that profited most of its book
List is sorted on Average Time indicating the engine that used the most time tops.
Programmer stuff on a separate page.
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YAT
Medal Competition
No | Program | Author | Country | Total | |||
1 | Andscacs | Daniel José Queraltó | Andorra | 1 | 1 | ||
2 | Texel | Peter Österlund | Sweden | 1 | 1 | ||
3 | Waduuttie | Maarten Claessens | Netherlands | 1 | 1 | ||
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PGN