CCT-5


5th Programmer's
Computer Chess Tournament
Internet Chess Club


January 18-19 2003
ICC-Computer Chess Club

organized by Volker Richey
9 rounds swiss, 45min 10sec
CCT-1
CCT-2
CCT-3
CCT-4
CCT-6
CCT5-Forum
Replay zone (games)
Results
PGN-Download

The Winner Is RUFFIAN by Per-Ole Valfridson


January 12 2003 11:59pm (Server Time: New York)

The ICC Computer Chess Tournament CCT-5 will begin January 18 2003.

IM Schroer has agreed to provide commentary for all 9 rounds of CCT5.

CCT5 will be the account for this event and pairings/results will be found at this website
and in the fingernotes of CCT5-1 (round 1) CCT5-2 (round2 etc).

Here are a small FAQ and some additional informations regarding this tournament.

 Q: When does the tournament start?
Q: When will the single rounds be started?
A:
January 18 2003 9:00am 11:00am 2:00pm 4:00pm 6:00pm
January 19 2003 9:00am 11:00am 2:00pm 4:00pm
*) (6:00pm time for possible playoffs by point equality)
start times EDT (server time; New York time) Calculate Your Time!!
Q: Who is going to play if there are two or more than two programs tied for first?
Q: How is the color to be decided?

A: Result after round 9: two programs tied for the first place

Tiebreaks:
Two blitz games at 5 min. + 3 sec
(or 10 min per side if Fischer clocks not available)
After that: sudden death
1st Game:
The 1st after Bucholz has white
The 2nd after Bucholz has black		 2nd Game:
The 2nd after Bucholz has white
The 1st after Bucholz has black
If draw after two games:
Sudden death:
3rd Game:
The 1st after Bucholz has white
The 2nd after Bucholz has black 		4th Game:
The 2nd after Bucholz has white
The 1st after Bucholz has black
 ...and so on

A: Result after round 9: three programs tied for the first place
Six games 5 3 round robin

Tiebreaks:
Six blitz games at 5 min. + 3 sec
(or 10 min per side if Fischer clocks not available)
After that sudden death
1st Game:
The 1st after Bucholz has white
The 3rd after Bucholz has black 		2nd Game:
The 2nd after Bucholz has white
The 3rd after Bucholz has black 		3rd Game:
The 1st after Bucholz has white
The 2nd after Bucholz has black
4thGame:
The 3rd after Bucholz has black
The 1st after Bucholz has white 		5th Game:
The 3rd after Bucholz has black
The 2nd after Bucholz has white 		6th Game:
The 2nd after Bucholz has black
The 1st after Bucholz has white
If draw after six games, 3rd after Bucholz is out
Sudden death:
7th Game:
The 1st after Bucholz has white
The 2nd after Bucholz has black 		8th Game:
The 2nd after Bucholz has white
The 1st after Bucholz has black
 ...and so on

Q: Where?
A: The Internet Chess Club. http://www.chessclub.com

Q: What timecontrols will be used?
A: 45 minutes + 10 seconds increment.

Q: What kind of pairings will be used?
A: 9 round Swiss.

Q: Do I need to be a member?
A:


 Yes. Many author already has accounts for their programs. If you
don't have one and wish to join this tournament send me an email
and I will help you set one up.

Q: Who can play and what are the rules for entering/playing?
A: It is be open to all known programs, amateur as well as commercial.

Q: Are there manually playing allowed?
A: No. Only playing with an autoplayer-interface eg. winboard or other are allowed.
The following informations must be shown during the game: evaluation, depth and predicted moves .
Additionally, it will be nice if bookmoves or tablebasemoves will be shown.

Q: How can i join the CCT5?
A: Fill out the following information-items and send it to Volker Richey (Mail with template)

.

Item: Example:
Program
Comet B55
Author Dr. Ulrich Tuerke
Country Germany
ICC-ELO 2500
ICChandle cometXX
certified Operator Hans Mueller
HardwareProcessor Athlon XP2400+
HardwareSpeed 2,2GHz
HardwareMemorySize 512MB
Hashsize 64MB ore none
Tablebases 3-4-5-some 6 or none
Autoplay: YES, if no, sorry you can't join
Interface Winboard, XBoard

More informations:



  		•  In case there is a tie for first place a playoff round will be
    held sunday 19 of january and start 6:00PM server time.




  		• If a program disconnects he is giving reasonable time to connect
    again (a couple of minutes). If he fails to do this the game will
    be forfeited for the disconnected program. If a program disconnects
    more that three times during one game it might get forfeited.




  		• It is unfortunately impossible to guarantee that every program will
    get exactly four/five white and four/five black games. Therefore,
    no protests about one program getting more black than white games will be
    taken into consideration.



  		• Only the author (or co-author) or someone pointed out by the author
    is allowed to participate in this tournament. The author is
    responsible for the person pointed out.



  		• As for the hardware, you are free to use what ever you want.
    It would be impossible to try to get all participants use the
    same computer-power and to make sure that they do.






  		• Only original programs are allowed and ABSOLUTELY NO CLONES. Most
    programs are pretty well know by the Computer Chess community and
    therefore if brand new, unknown program appears I will consult
    other people to decide its entry in the tournament.
    ICC reserves the right to decline any application for this
    tourney.


    Q: How can i kibitz the tournament?
    A:




    		 at ICC channel 64 little hints for kibitzer:
    1. download blitzin2
    2. install and start blitzin2
    3. login as a guest
    4. enter '+ch 64' at the mainconsole


    Q: Which programs will play?
    A:

    CCT-5 Participants

      Program
    Interface    		 Author Country ICC ELO ICC handle Hardware
    Processor
    Speed
    Memorysize    		 Configurations
    Tablebases
    Hashtablesize
    1. Yace*
    Winboard    		 Dieter Buerssner Germany 2606 Yace Athlon XP2200+
    1,9GHz
    256MB    		 3-4-5 stone tb
    ??MB hash
    2. Ferret
    Winboard    		 Bruce Moreland USA 2593 Ferret Athlon
    1,8GHz
    1GB    		 3-4-(most) 5 stone tb
    128MB hash
    3. Searcher
    XBoard    		 Frank Phillips England 2540 SearcherX Athlon XP2400+
    2,0GHz
    1GB    		 3-4-5 stone tb
    512MB hash
    4. Ruffian
    XBoard    		 Perola Valfridsson Sweden 2525 Ruffian Athlon XP2400+
    2GHz
    512GB    		 3-4-5 stone tb
    256MB hash
    5. Comet B55*
    Winboard    		 Uli Tuerke Germany 2523 CometXX Athlon XP2400+
    2GHz
    1GB    		 3-4-5 stone tb
    256MB hash
    6. monsoon
    Winboard    		 Scott Gasch USA 2509 Monsoon Athlon XP1800+
    1,533GHz
    512MB    		 3-4-5 stone tb
    350MB hash
    7. Quark*
    Winboard    		 Thomas Mayer Germany 2509 QuarkX Athlon XP2700+
    2,166GHz
    1GB    		 3-4-5 stone tb
    360MB hash
    8. Pharaon*
    Winboard    		 Franck Zibi France 2500 Pharaon Athlon XP2000+
    1,67GHz
    256MB    		 3-4-5 stone tb
    64MB hash
    9. Pepito*
    Winboard    		 Carlos del Cacho Spain 2500 XXPepitoXX Xeon
    1,7GHz
    1GB RamBus    		 3-4-5 stone tb
    32MB hash
    10. XiniX
    Winboard    		 Tony van Roon-Werten Netherlands 2500 XiniXXX Athlon XP2000+
    1,67GHz
    512MB    		 3-4-5 stone tb
    400MB hash
    11. Crafty*
    XBoard    		 Robert Hyatt USA 2489 Crafty Dual Xeon
    2,8GHz
    1GB    		 3-4-5-some 6 st. tb
    (250GB disks)
    384MB hash
    12. Bringer*
    Winboard    		 Gerrit Reubold Germany 2485 BringerXX Athlon XP2600+
    2,083GHz
    512MB    		 3-4-5 stone tb
    310MB hash
    13. Amateur
    Winboard    		 Will Singleton USA 2448 Amateur Pentium 4
    2,8GHz
    512MB    		 no tb
    128MB hash
    14. The Baron
    Winboard    		 Richard Pijl Netherlands 2442 TheBaron Athlon MP2000+
    1,67GHz
    1GB    		 3-4-5 stone tb
    700MB hash
    15. Diep
    XBoard    		 Vincent Diepeveen
    book: Boris Kreiman (USA)
    + Arturo Ochoa (Venezuela)     		Netherlands 2440 Diep Dual Athlon MP1600+
    1,4GHz
    512MB    		 3-4-5 stone tb
    400MB hash
    16. Aristarch
    Winboard    		 Stefan Zipproth Germany 2397 Aristarch Athlon XP1600+
    1,4GHz
    512MB    		 3-4-5 stone tb
    128MB hash
    17. Chezzz 1.0a*
    Winboard    		 David Rasmussen Denmark 2394 Chezzz Athlon XP1800+
    1,533GHz
    512MB    		 3-4-5 stones tb
    96MB hash
    18. Post Modernist
    XBoard    		 Andrew Williams United Kingdom 2393 postmodernist Athlon
    1,2GHz
    768MB    		 3-4-5 stones tb
    400MB hash
    19. Terra 3.0*
    Winboard    		 Peter Fendrich Sweden 2391 TerraPi Pentium 4
    2,53GHz
    512MB    		 3-4-5 stones tb
    350MB hash
    20. Arasan 6.3*
    Winboard    		 Jon Dart USA 2390 ArasanX Athlon
    1,3GHz
    256MB    		 3-4-5 stone tb
    80MB hash
    21. Butcher*
    Winboard    		 Marek Kolacz Poland 2384 ButcherCeleron
    1,61GHz
    320MB    		 no tb
    225MB hash
    22. Grok
    Custom    		 Peter Kappler USA 2377 Grok Athlon
    1,4GHz
    512MB    		 3-4-5 stones tb
    240MB hash
    23. Averno*
    Winboard    		 José Carlos
    Martínez Galán    		 Spain 2360 AvernoX Athlon
    1.3GHz
    1GB    		 3-4-5 stone tb
    100MB hash
    24. Tao 5.4
    Winboard    		 Bas Hamstra Netherlands 2350 TaoXX Athlon XP1600+
    1,4GHz
    256MB    		 3-4 stone tb
    128MB hash
    25. CyberPagno
    Winboard    		 Marco Pagnocelli Italy 2342 CyberPagno Duron K7
    800MHz
    256MB    		 no tb
    32MB hash
    26. Dorky
    Winboard    		 Matt McKnight USA 2341 Dorky Celeron
    450MHz
    256MB    		 no tb
    32MB hash
    27. Alarm
    Winboard    		 Benny Antonsson
    Erik Robertsson    		 Sweden 2333 Alarm Pentium 3
    533MHz
    128MB    		 no tb
    32MB hash
    28. Plywood
    Winboard    		 Jim Bumgardner USA 2314 plywood Pentium 4
    1,8GHz
    256MB    		 no tb
    32MB hash
    29. Amyan*
    Winboard    		 Antonio Dieguez Chile 2278 Amyan Celeron
    1,3GHz
    256MB    		 no tb
    70MB hash
    30. Hossa
    Xboard    		 Steffen Jakob Germany 2256 Hossa Pentium 4
    2,8GHz
    2GB    		 3-4-5 stone tb
    128MB hash
    31. WildCat*
    Winboard    		 Igor Korshunov Bela Russia 2250 WildCatXX Duron
    950MHz
    256MB    		 3-4 stone tb
    128MB hash
    32. Tinker
    Winboard    		 Brian Richardson USA 2249 Tinker Athlon MP1900
    1,6GHz
    1GB    		 3-4-5 stone tb
    512MB hash
    33. Frenzee*
    Winboard    		 Sune Fischer
    Ian Bredahl    		 Denmark 2241 Frenzee Athlon XP2400+
    2GHz
    512MB    		 3-4-5 stone tb
    300MB hash
    34. Qalat
    Winboard    		 Carlos Andrade Spain 2233 Qalat Athlon
    1,5GHz
    512MB    		 3-4-5 tb
    64MB hash
    35. Zappa
    XBoard    		 Anthony Cozzi USA 2233 Zappa Athlon XP1700+
    1,5GHz
    512MB    		 no tb
    256MB hash
    36. Matacz
    Winboard    		 Maciej Pestka Poland 2212 Matacz Duron
    700MHz
    512MB    		 no tb
    132MB hash
    37. Movei
    Winboard    		 Uri Blass Israel 2200 MoveiXX Duron
    1GHz
    178MB    		 no stone tb
    64MB hash
    38. 31337/Celes*
    Winboard    		 Johan Hutting Netherlands 2200 Celes Athlon XP1700+
    1,466GHz
    512MB    		 no tb
    384MB hash
    39. Phark
    Custom    		 Tim Smith Australia 2194 Phark Pentium 2
    233MHz
    64MB    		 no tb
    no hash
    40. Chompster
    Custom    		 Scott Farrell Australia 2158 ChompsterX Celeron
    1,5GHz
    512MB    		 3-4-5 stone tb
    300MB hash
    41. PolarChess 2.0*
    Winboard    		 Odd Gunnar Malin Norway 2146 PolarChess Athlon XP1600
    1,4GHz
    512MB    		 no tb
    256MB/0MB hash
    42. Czolgista 1.3
    Custom    		 Tomasz Kazimierski Poland 2141 Czolgista Pentium 3
    900MHz
    256MB    		 no tb
    64MB hash
    43. Armageddon
    Winboard    		 Grzegorz Sidorowicz Poland 2113 Armageddon Athlon XP1700+
    1,466GHz
    256MB    		 3-4-5 stone tb
    140MB hash
    44. Nullmover
    Winboard    		 Michel Langeveld Netherlands 2103 nullmover Pentium 3
    800MHz
    512MB    		 no tb
    384MB hash
    45. messchess
    Winboard    		 Mridul Muralidharan India 2091 messchess Pentium 4
    1,6GHz
    512MB    		 no tb
    128MB hash
    46. Robin
    Winboard    		 Piotr Dachtera Poland 2086 RobinX Pentium 4
    1,8GHz
    512MB    		 no tb
    300MB hash
    47. NoonianChess*
    XBoard    		 Charles Roberson USA 2000 NoonianChess Athlon XP2000+
    1,67GHz
    1GB    		 no tb
    24MB hash
    *) Winboard-Engines (Thomas Mayer)

    Program Operator Country
    Yace José Luis Jiménez Spain
    Bringer Peter Berger Germany
    Pepito Nolan Denson USA
    Diep Ezekiel Smigel USA
    Comet B55 Volker Richey Germany

    last update at 01/18/2003 6:08am EDT