(Y)et (A)nother (T)ournament
Third 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 April 1, 2016 so you can make preparations. If you are interested subscribe using the contact form. Subscription will close March 28, 2016
Review YAT first edition | YAT second edition
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Participants
Program | Version | Author | Start ELO | Country | Book positions | Book learning | Position learning | Opponent learning | |
1. | 1.06 | Peter Österlund | 3049 | Sweden | |||||
2. | 0.86 | Daniel José Queraltó | 3058 | Andorra | |||||
3. | 3.0 | Thomas Petzke | 3080 | Germany | 500.000 | ||||
4. | Maarten Claessens | 2953 | Netherlands | 4.766.723 | yes | yes | yes | ||
5. | 2.2 | Marco Belli | 2906 | Italy | |||||
6. | 2.x | Pawel Koziol | 2819 | Poland | |||||
7. | 18.3 | Jon Dart | 2901 | USA | 500.000 | yes | yes | ||
8. | Geneva | Alexandru Moșoi | 2498 | Romania | 114 million |
Initial ELO ratings are 40/40 CCRL (31 Marchi 2016) based.
WaDuuttie is a private engine which gained an elo rating of 2953 in YAT-2.
Bottom line of this tournament is if the initial elo
ratings will change much.
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Pairing
created with stChess
With 8 engines we will play 40 rounds producing 1120 x 40/20 games all together, thus each engine will play 280 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 40 (instead of 1) games in 7 rounds against each other. So the complete paring for this third edition of YAT will be:
Round 1 | 40 games | |
Texel | Rodent | 32 - 8 |
iCE | Zurichess | 38 - 2 |
Andscacs | Arasan | 32 - 8 |
Vajolet | WaDuuttie | 18.5-21.5 |
Round 4 | ||
Arasan | Vajolet | 23 - 17 |
Zurichess | Rodent | 10 - 30 |
Texel | WaDuuttie | 22.5-17.5 |
Andscacs | iCE | 21.5-18.5 |
Round 7 | ||
Vajolet | iCE | 12.5-27.5 |
Zurichess | Andscacs | 1.5 - 38.5 |
Arasan | Texel | 13 - 27 |
WaDuuttie | Rodent | 29.5-10.5 |
Round 2 | 40 games | |
Rodent | Vajolet | 16 - 24 |
Zurichess | WaDuuttie | 2 - 38 |
Arasan | iCE | 18.5-21.5 |
Texel | Andscacs | 18 - 22 |
Round 5 | ||
WaDuuttie | Andscacs | 13 - 27 |
Vajolet | Texel | 14 - 26 |
Arasan | Zurichess | 36.5 - 3.5 |
iCE | Rodent | 28.5-11.5 |
Round 3 | 40 games | |
iCE | Texel | 16.5-23.5 |
WaDuuttie | Arasan | 19 - 21 |
Vajolet | Zurichess | 32.5 - 7.5 |
Andscacs | Rodent | 33 - 7 |
Round 6 | ||
Rodent | Arasan | 12 - 28 |
Texel | Zurichess | 37 - 3 |
Andscacs | Vajolet | 29.5-10.5 |
iCE | WaDuuttie | 23 - 17 |
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Live Support
using TLCV
broadcasting all 1120 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 Score -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Andscacs 0.86 xxxx 22.0 21.5 27.0 32.0 29.5 33.0 38.5 203.5 / 280 (72.6%) 2 Texel 1.06a45 18.0 xxxx 23.5 22.5 27.0 26.0 32.0 37.0 186.0 / 280 (66.4%) 3 iCE 3.0 18.5 16.5 xxxx 23.0 21.5 27.5 28.5 38.0 173.5 / 280 (61.9%) 4 WaDuuttie 13.0 17.5 17.0 xxxx 19.0 21.5 29.5 38.0 155.5 / 280 (55.5%) 5 Arasan 18.3 8.0 13.0 18.5 21.0 xxxx 23.0 28.0 36.5 148.0 / 280 (52.8%) 6 Vajolet2 2.2 10.5 14.0 12.5 18.5 17.0 xxxx 24.0 32.5 129.0 / 280 (46.0%) 7 Rodent_II 7.0 8.0 11.5 10.5 12.0 16.0 xxxx 30.0 95.0 / 280 (33.9%) 8 Zurichess 1.5 3.0 2.0 2.0 3.5 7.5 10.0 xxxx 29.5 / 280 (10.5%)
# PLAYER : RATING POINTS PLAYED (%) ELO 1 Andscacs 0.86 : 3085.0 203.5 280 72.7% +27 2 Texel 1.06a45 : 3036.3 186.0 280 66.4% -13 3 iCE 3.0 : 3003.8 173.5 280 62.0% -77 4 WaDuuttie : 2956.9 155.5 280 55.5% +3 5 Arasan 18.3 : 2937.3 148.0 280 52.9% +36 6 Vajolet2 2.2 : 2888.6 129.0 280 46.1% -18 7 Rodent_II : 2796.8 95.0 280 33.9% -23 8 Zurichess : 2559.4 29.5 280 10.5% +61 White advantage = 44.53 Draw rate (equal opponents) = 46.86%
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Tournament Statistics
Depths, Time control, Book
created with ProTools
Engine Depth Time Games Moves Average Forfeit Book Zurichess 18.71 151:18:34 280 17738 30.71 0 3145 (11.23) Texel 1.06a45 21.33 168:59:43 280 20004 30.41 0 2611 (9.32) WaDuuttie 25.94 166:31:52 280 20462 29.30 0 3890 (13.89) Arasan 18.3 30.25 155:21:33 280 19721 28.36 0 3300 (11.79) Andscacs 0.86 28.76 153:43:15 280 19735 28.04 0 1736 (6.20) iCE 3.0 32.24 141:51:32 280 18465 27.66 0 2542 (9.08) Rodent_II 26.19 147:24:05 280 20155 26.33 0 3161 (11.29) Vajolet2 2.2 26.42 144:29:16 280 19898 26.14 0 2528 (9.03)
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
No | Program | Author | Country | Total | |||
1 | Andscacs | Daniel José Queraltó | Andorra | 3 | 3 | ||
2 | Texel | Peter Österlund | Sweden | 2 | 2 | ||
3 | iCE | Thomas Petzke | Germany | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
4 | Waduuttie | Maarten Claessens | Netherlands | 2 | 2 | ||
PGN