Debian testing chess engines tournament of 2007/1/23

These are the results of the chess engines found in "Debian testing" of 2007/1/23.

Engines used

package nameversionbook package name + version
fruit2.1.dfsg-1
gnuchess5.07-4gnuchess-book 1.00-2
hoichess0.5.1-1
crafty20.14-1crafty-books-medium 1.0-2

Settings

  • DEFAULT settings (of the installation package) were used, with the following changes
  • the largest openingbook available (as a Debian package) was used
  • random was switched off
  • 50 moves were played in 15 minutes, after one of these was reached, the match was considered a draw
  • each engine plays 5 rounds
  • pondering (thinking in the opponents time) was switched ON

Hardware/software used

  • Dell PowerEdge 2400
  • 2 x 860MHz Pentium-III (256KB cache)
  • 512MB ram
  • hardware mirrored system disks of 9GB
  • Linux kernel version 2.6.17-2-686 (standerd Debian package)
  • libc6-i686 version 2.3.6.ds1-8
  • AutoPlay v0.7
  • Chess engines using the UCI protocol were interfaced to autoplay using the 'polyglot' (1.4-2) package

Results

Results matrix

Black engines on horizontal line, white engines in vertical column.
Round: 1
craftyfruitgnuchesshoichess
crafty---0-11-01-0
fruit1-0---0.5-0.51-0
gnuchess0-10-1---1-0
hoichess0-10-10-1---
Round: 2
craftyfruitgnuchesshoichess
crafty---0-11-01-0
fruit0.5-0.5---1-01-0
gnuchess0-10.5-0.5---1-0
hoichess0-10-10-1---
Round: 3
craftyfruitgnuchesshoichess
crafty---1-01-01-0
fruit0-1---1-01-0
gnuchess0-10-1---0-1
hoichess0-10-10-1---
Round: 4
craftyfruitgnuchesshoichess
crafty---0.5-0.51-01-0
fruit1-0---1-01-0
gnuchess0-10-1---1-0
hoichess0-10-11-0---
Round: 5
craftyfruitgnuchesshoichess
crafty---0-11-01-0
fruit0.5-0.5---1-01-0
gnuchess0-10-1---1-0
hoichess0-10-11-0---

Total number of points

engineresult
crafty23.5
fruit25.5
gnuchess8
hoichess3

ELO rating for this tournament

These ratings where calculated with Bayesian-Elo.
Rank Name       Elo    +    - games score oppo. draws
   1 fruit      248  112   98    30   85%   -83   17%
   2 crafty     213  109   97    30   78%   -71   10%
   3 gnuchess  -129  100  112    29   28%    56    7%
   4 hoichess  -332  118  167    29    7%   119    0%

PGN file

To see the moves for each game, please download this PGN-file. It can be viewed with software like xboard/winboard.





 
 
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