(Y)et (A)nother (T)ournament
Second edition.
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
Start tournament at February 1, 2016 so you can make preparations. If you are interested subscribe using the contact form. Subscription will close January 28, 2016
Review YAT first edition
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Participants
Program | Version | Author | Start ELO | Country | Book positions | Book learning | Position learning | Opponent learning | |
1. | 7 | Engin Üstün | 2808 | Germany | |||||
2. | 0.85 | Daniel José Queraltó | 3070 | Andorra | |||||
3. | 3.0 | Thomas Petzke | 3041 | Germany | 500.000 | ||||
4. | Maarten Claessens | 2928 | Netherlands | 81.000 | yes | yes | yes | ||
5. | 2.2 | Marco Belli | 2922 | Italy | |||||
6. | 1.x | Miguel Ballicora | 2861 | Argentina | |||||
7. | 18.3 | Jon Dart | 2885 | USA | 500.000 | yes | yes | ||
8. | 2.1a | Ed Schröder | 2681 | Netherlands | 150 million | yes | not used | yes | |
9. | Geneva | Alexandru Moșoi | 2480 | Romania |
Initial ELO ratings are 40/40 CCRL (13 Februari 2016) based.
WaDuuttie is a private engine which gained an elo rating of 2928 in YAT-1.
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 | 28½ - 1½ |
iCE | ProDeo | 24½ - 5½ |
WaDuuttie | Arasan | 16½-13½ |
Vajolet | Gaviota | 16½-13½ |
Tornado | bye |
Round 4 | ||
ProDeo | Gaviota | 14 - 16 |
Zurichess | Vajolet | 2 - 28 |
Tornado | WaDuuttie | 9 - 21 |
Andscacs | iCE | 18 - 12 |
Arasan | bye |
Round 7 | ||
Vajolet | iCE | 10½-19½ |
Gaviota | Andscacs | 6 - 24 |
Arasan | Tornado | 17½-12½ |
ProDeo | Zurichess | 23 - 7 |
WaDuuttie | bye |
Round 2 | 30 games | |
Arasan | Vajolet | 18 - 12 |
ProDeo | WaDuuttie | 3½ - 26½ |
Zurichess | iCE | ½ - 29½ |
Tornado | Andscacs | 4 - 26 |
Gaviota | bye |
Round 5 | ||
WaDuuttie | Andscacs | 11 - 19 |
Vajolet | Tornado | 19 - 11 |
Gaviota | Zurichess | 26 - 4 |
Arasan | ProDeo | 25 - 5 |
iCE | bye |
Round 8 | ||
Tornado | ProDeo | 13 - 17 |
Andscacs | Arasan | 20½-9½ |
iCE | Gaviota | 22½-7½ |
WaDuuttie | Vajolet | 14½-15½ |
Zurichess | bye |
Round 3 | 30 games | |
iCE | Tornado | 26 - 4 |
WaDuuttie | Zurichess | 29½ - ½ |
Vajolet | ProDeo | 21½ - 8½ |
Gaviota | Arasan | 15 - 15 |
Andscacs | bye |
Round 6 | ||
Zurichess | Arasan | 1½ - 28½ |
Tornado | Gaviota | 9½ - 20½ |
Andscacs | Vajolet | 22 - 8 |
iCE | WaDuuttie | 20 - 10 |
ProDeo | bye |
Round 9 | ||
Gaviota | WaDuuttie | 9½ - 20½ |
Arasan | iCE | 10½-19½ |
ProDeo | Andscacs | 7 - 23 |
Zurichess | Tornado | 4½ - 25½ |
Vajolet | bye |
Because the most likely scenario is that the battle for the tournament victory will be
between iCE and Andscacs we will play round 4 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 0.85 xxxx 18.0 19.0 20.5 22.0 24.0 26.0 23.0 28.5 181.0 / 240 (75.4%) 2 iCE 3.0 12.0 xxxx 20.0 19.5 19.5 22.5 26.0 24.5 29.5 173.5 / 240 (72.2%) 3 WaDuuttie 11.0 10.0 xxxx 16.5 14.5 20.5 21.0 26.5 29.5 149.5 / 240 (62.2%) 4 Arasan 18.3 9.5 10.5 13.5 xxxx 18.0 15.0 17.5 25.0 28.5 137.5 / 240 (57.2%) 5 Vajolet2 2.2 8.0 10.5 15.5 12.0 xxxx 16.5 19.0 21.5 28.0 131.0 / 240 (54.5%) 6 Gaviota 6.0 7.5 9.5 15.0 13.5 xxxx 20.5 16.0 26.0 114.0 / 240 (47.5%) 7 Tornado 7 4.0 4.0 9.0 12.5 11.0 9.5 xxxx 13.0 25.5 88.5 / 240 (36.8%) 8 ProDeo 2.0 7.0 5.5 3.5 5.0 8.5 14.0 17.0 xxxx 23.0 83.5 / 240 (34.8%) 9 Zurichess 1.5 0.5 0.5 1.5 2.0 4.0 4.5 7.0 xxxx 21.5 / 240 (9.0%)
Initial ratings
created with ORDO
# ENGINE : RATING POINTS PLAYED (%) 1 Andscacsn 0.85 : 3070.0 0.0 0 0.0% 2 Ice 3.0 : 3041.0 0.0 0 0.0% 3 WaDuuttie : 2928.0 0.0 0 0.0% 4 Vajolet2 2.2 : 2922.0 0.0 0 0.0% 5 Arasan 18.3 : 2885.0 0.0 0 0.0% 6 Gaviota : 2861.0 0.0 0 0.0% 7 Tornado 7 : 2808.0 0.0 0 0.0% 8 ProDeo 2.0 : 2681.0 0.0 0 0.0% 9 Zurichess : 2480.0 0.0 0 0.0%
# PLAYER : RATING POINTS PLAYED (%) ELO 1 Andscacs 0.85 : 3058.6 181.0 240 75.4% -12 2 iCE 3.0 : 3032.0 173.5 240 72.3% -9 3 WaDuuttie : 2953.3 149.5 240 62.3% +25 4 Arasan 18.3 : 2916.0 137.5 240 57.3% +31 5 Vajolet2 2.2 : 2896.1 131.0 240 54.6% -26 6 Gaviota : 2843.9 114.0 240 47.5% -18 7 Tornado 7 : 2762.6 88.5 240 36.9% -46 8 ProDeo 2.0 : 2745.8 83.5 240 34.8% +64 9 Zurichess : 2468.6 21.5 240 9.0% -12 White advantage = 55.84 Draw rate (equal opponents) = 47.66 %
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.
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YAT
Medal Competition
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Tournament Statistics
Depths, Time control, Book
created with ProTools
Engine Depth Time Games Moves Average Forfeit Book Tornado 7 26.58 154:06:25 240 15307 36.24 0 1512 (6.30) Andscacs 0.85 24.72 153:51:01 240 15393 35.98 0 1464 (6.13) Zurichess 14.32 115:55:36 240 11852 35.21 32 2071 (8.67) Gaviota 16.55 158:58:04 240 16823 34.02 0 3033 (12.64) Arasan 18.3 24.69 136:12:37 240 16674 29.41 0 2672 (11.13) WaDuuttie 21.46 128:43:53 240 15979 29.00 0 2488 (10.37) iCE 3.0 26.82 110:42:26 240 14712 27.09 0 1995 (8.31) ProDeo 2.0 14.62 114:18:48 240 15272 26.95 0 3377 (14.07) Vajolet2 2.2 22.97 118:33:16 240 17430 24.49 0 2234 (9.31)
No | Program | Author | Country | Total | |||
1 | Andscacs | Daniel José Queraltó | Andorra | 2 | 2 | ||
2-3 | Texel | Peter Österlund | Sweden | 1 | 1 | ||
iCE | Thomas Petzke | Germany | 1 | 1 | |||
4 | Waduuttie | Maarten Claessens | Netherlands | 2 | 2 | ||
PGN