FCP-Tourney-2024-MA, hardware

Operating system: Windows 10 Professional
GUI:              Shredder 12 by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
Processor:        AMD Ryzen™ 9 5950X / RTX 3070-Ti = 16 cores
Ghz, RAM:         4.0Ghz overclocked, DDR4 3200Mhz
Bench:            Total time= 87,18 seconds, nodes= 126164000, nps= 1447112
                  Bench results by Wasp 6.50 NN with 1 core, 768Mb hashtables
TalkChess:        U.S. Forum, thread 83065



FCP-Tourney-2024-MA, parameters / statistics

Start of tourney: December 27th, 2023 (20:00)
Break:            February 25th, 2024 - ~2 months
End of tourney:   unclear

HTML/FTP updates: Every 10 minutes, "Replay-Zone" is updated with Fling Plus 5.04.
                  Games from the current round are displayed.
pgn4web:          https://www.amateurschach.de/fling/index.html

FTP updates:      Every 10 minutes, the current cross-table is updated with Fling Plus 5.04.
Cross-table:      https://www.amateurschach.de/fling/fcp-tourney-2024.html

FTP updates:      Every 10 minutes, the current game-plan is updated with Fling Plus 5.04.
Game-plan:        https://www.amateurschach.de/fling/fcp-tourney-2024.sto

*.html overview:  https://www.amateurschach.de/main/_ma.htm

HTTPS updates:    After every round. If I work on it more often (irregular)
Games & Stats:    https://www.amateurschach.de/download/_fcp-tourney-2024.zip

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                  * Current statistics after round 10 (Feb. 25th, 2024)     *
                  * Move-average: 176.17 ( 88,08 moves )                    *
                  * Draws: 59.45%                                           *
                  * ~166 games per day                                      *
                  ***********************************************************

Elo:              ~3305 (avg. of 44 participate engines) setting for Shredder 12 GUI
                  SlowChess Blitz 2.9 NN is playing with ~3380 Elo (reference)

Tournament type:  Everyone against everyone, 44 engines, 20 games per match,
                  860 games per engine, 946 games per round, 20 x 946 = 18.920 games total

Engine-Updates:   Possible for Wasp development versions only
                  Updates are possible during the first round: January 02nd, 2024

Time control:     66 Minutes/Game + 6 Seconds/Move

Endgame 6-man:    syzygy
Endgame 5-6-man:  gaviotabases & 6-man syzygy for Texel 1.10 NN
                  gaviotabases & 6-man syzygy for Chiron 5.01
Endgame 5-man:    gaviotabases & egbb for DanaSah 9.1 NN
Endgame 5-man:    shredderbases for Shredder 13

Opening book:     feobos-6m-v2.1.bkt for Shredder GUI
                  based on 3.698 lines
                  *.pgn and *.epd can be found in this download file!

Cores:            1 core, Hyperthreading = off, Large-Pages = off
Hashtables:       1Gb
Contempt:         Default engine settings changed to contempt = 0
Other settings:   resign = off, ponder = off, learning = off

Replay games:     Every draw less than 20 moves



FCP-Tourney-2024-MA, this and that

dev:              Developer builds from available engines are allowed.
Derivat:          Derived engines are not allowed.



Frank Quisinsky, Germany / Gutweiler