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FACE Tournament
| FACE | How it works | Conditions | Ratings | Download | History | 
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Changed conditions for Edition 22
Book: all engine use generic book “FEOBOS 20.1c3” by Frank Quisinsky (http://www.amateurschach.de)  - converted for Arena 
other items remain the same 
 
Changed conditions for Edition 20
Time-control: 40 moves in 4 minutes and repeating - adapted to TC that CCRL do til end of 2019 
Real time: 1 min (CPU i7 8750H) 
Download PGN: Download of the pgn-files will be possible when Division is finished 
 
other items remain the same 
 
Conditions for Edition 16 to 19
Time-control: 40 moves in 4 minutes and repeating (adapted to CCRL) 
Real time: 2 min (CPU i7 3630QM) 
Chess-Gui: Arena-GUI (mainly), in some case if an engine is not running under Arena CUTE-GUI is taken 
CPU used: Each engine use only 1 Core 
Pondering: OFF 
Hash: max 256 MB 
Book: all engine use generic book “gm2001.bin” by Olivier Deville (http://www.open-aurec.com/chesswar/download.html) - converted for Arena 
length of Book: limited to 12 moves per side maximum 
Booklearning: OFF 
Endgame tablebases: 5 piece tablebases 
EGTB hash: 32 MB 
Download PGN: Download of the pgn-files will be possible when Edition is finished 
 
Conditions up to Edition 15
Time-control: 40 moves in 5 minutes, repeating 
Ponder: Off
 
Chess GUI:  ARENA
 
CPU: Intel 3,8 GHz 4 cores (for tournaments only 1 core was used)
  
OS: MS Windows 7 x64 
 
Hash Tables: up to 128 MB
 
Pawn Hash: 16 MB 
  
EGTB: No. 
- In the German chess magazine “CSS” (paper edition - year 2004/2005) the EGTB controversy was discussed.
- Those test-results said it is better to do without (the speed of an engine is slowed by 30 per cent when using them).
- Furthermore, not all engines use tablebases.
 
OpeningBook:
- All Engines use their own book if available (For Edition 6 there was own book only for Division A to C, others used Arena mainbook.
- Since Edition 7 all engine use their own book, for engines without a book, Arena mainbook is used.
 
Download PGN: Download of the pgn-files is possible
  
Periods of Editions: 
- For Edition 1 to Edition 6 there were two editions per year.
- Starting with Edition 7 it will be different - I will hold tournaments when I have free time and have fun
 









