Conditions:

GUI:              Shredder 12 by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

System Wasp-1:    Intel® Core™ i9-10900k = 10 cores, 4.4Ghz overclocked
Time control:     4 Minutes/Game + 2 Seconds/Move
Operating system: Windows 10

System Wasp-2:    Intel® Core™ i7-1185g7 =  4 cores, 3.0Ghz overclocked
Time control:     6 Minutes/Game + 3 Seconds/Move
Operating system: Windows 11
                  Dell Ultrabook is rather rarely used

Start of tourney: January 08th, 2024
End of tourney:   ~ end of February 2024 (break for ~ 2 months)

Elo:              SlowChess Blitz 2.9 NN is playing with ~3380 Elo (reference)

Tournament type:  Everyone against everyone, 50 games per match
                  Max. 41 engines = 2.000 games per engine
                  If more as 41 engine = A new engine replaces the last place.
                  An engine should reach approx. 3200 Elo

Endgame 5-man:    syzygy
Opening book:     feobos-6m-v2.1.bkt for Shredder GUI, based on 3.698 lines (balanced)
Cores:            1 core, Hyperthreading = off, Large-Pages = off
Hashtables:       128Mb
Contempt:         Default engine settings changed to contempt = 0 (if possible)
Other settings:   resign = off, ponder = off, learning = off

Replay games:     Every draw less than 20 moves



Frank Quisinsky, Germany / Gutweiler