Edition 10

• started around Juli 2009
• Time control: 40 moves in 5 minutes and reating
• Arena-GUI (only)
• Book: all engine use their own book, for engines without a book, “Arena little mainbook” by Harry Schnapp is used.
• not a full liga system … more Conditions

• Added are new versions
  • Stockfish
  • Protector
  • Critter
  • Booot

• order of starting
  • from Division 1 no 01-20 (last edition): Alaric, Booot, Bright, Colossus, Crafty, Cyrano, Delfi, ET, Frenzee, Fruit, Glaurung, Grapefruit, Naum, Rybka, Scorpio, Slow, Spark, Spike, Stockfish, Thinker, TwistedLogic, WildCat
  • Replaced:
    • Spark instead of Bright (one engine each author)
    • Stockfish instead of Glaurung (one engine each author)
    • Grapefruit instead of Toga and Fruit (best of Fruit/Toga family)
  • New as Joker: Protector
  • promoted from Division 2 no 01-04 (this edition): …

• results
  • demoted: no 13-24 go to Division 2

• order of starting
  • demoted from Division 1 no 21-24 (last edition): Alfil, Bug, Hamsters, ProDeo
  • from Division 3 no 08-20 (last edition): Aristarch, Garbo, Jonny, Ktulu, List, Movei, Petir, Pharaon, Pseudo, Ruffian, Sloppy, Trace, Zappa
  • promoted from Division 3 no 01-04 (this edition): AnMon, Amyan, Chronos, Ufim
  • promoted from Division 7 no 01-02 (this edition): Bison, Critter
  • New as Joker: Komodo
• results
  • promoted to Division 1: no 01-04: Bison, Bug, Critter, Komodo
  • demoted: due to new structur of next edition decision is made when Edition 11 starts

• order of starting
  • demoted from Division 2 no 21-24 (last edition): AnMon, SOS, Tao, Ufim
  • from Division 3 no 04-18 (last edition): Amyan, Anatoli, Arasan, Baron, Bruja, Chronos, Danasah, FrancescaMad, GreenLight, Gromit (retreated), KnightDreamer, LGEvolution, Nejmet, Pepito, SmarThink, Yace
  • promoted from Division 4 no 01-04 (this edition):
  • promoted from Division 7 no 03 (this edition): N2
• results
  • promoted to Division 2: no 01-04
  • demoted: due to new structur of next edition decision is made when Edition 11 starts

• order of starting
  • demoted from Division 3 no 21-24 (last edition): Abrok, Dragon, Gosu, Quark
  • from Division 4 no 04-20 (last edition): Betsy, Comet, Diablo, Djinn, Hermann, KingOfKings, LamChop, Matacz, Phalanx, Postmodernist, Pupsi, Queen, Rotor, Sjeng, Snitch, TCB, Typhoon
  • promoted from Division 5 no 01-02 (this edition): Nanoszachy, Tornado
  • promoted from Division 7 no 04 (this edition): Brutus
• results
  • promoted to Division 3: no 01-04 Hermann, Pupsi, Rotor, Tornado
  • demoted: due to new structur of next edition decision is made when Edition 11 starts

• order of starting
  • demoted from Division 4 no 20-24 (last edition): Amy, Delphil, Horizon, Patzer
  • from Division 5 no 03-20: Aice, Amateur, Arion, BB, Bringer, Cerebro, Counter, Eeyore, Gaia, Greko, Homer, Leila, Muse, Natwarlal, Romi, ThorsHammer, Tytan,
  • “retreated engine” according to Ron´s list is taken out: Chezzz
    • see here: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list#retreated_engine_list
  • promoters from Division 6 (this edition): no 01-02 Tornado, Xpdnt
  • promoter from Division 7 (this edition): no 04 Brutus
• results
  • promoted to Division 4: no 01-02 Nanoszachy, Tornado
  • demoted: due to new structur of next edition decision is made when Edition 11 starts

• order of starting
  • demoted from Division 5 no 21-25 (last edition): Averno, Chispa, GES, KnightX, Resp
  • from Division 6 no 03-14 (last edition): Asterisk, Butcher, Cheese, CyberPagno, Esc, Ex, Flux, Gnu4, Joker, OliThink, Porucznik, Tornado
  • “retreated engine” according to Ron´s list is taken out: Esc
    • see here: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list#retreated_engine_list
  • demoted to PlayOff to Division 6 (reasons look at these Division): Ex, Gnu4
  • demoted to Division 7 cause being no 117-128 of ratinglist: no 117: Cyber Pagno, no 118: Butcher
• promoters from Division 7: no 06-14 Ayito, Butcher, Dirty, Glass, OBender, Philou, Sage, Scid, Xpdnt
• promoters from PlayOff to Division 6 (this edition): no 01-04 Atlas, Asterisk, DayDreamer, Sorgenkind
• results
• promoted to Division 5: no 01-02 Tornado, Xpdnt
• demoted: due to new structur of next edition decision is made when Edition 11 starts

• PlayOff is played cause rating of not qualified engines played in Division 7-8 is higher than no 116 of ratinglist from Top128 at end of edition 9
  • no 116 Sorgenkind 0.40
  • those engines play 4 RR versus the same amount of engines start with no 116, no 115, no 114 … and so on,

• order of starting
  • new ones:
    • Div 7 no 15: Merlin 2.31
    • Div 8 no 13: Atlas 2.20
    • Div 8 no 14: Feuerstein 0.461
    • Joker: DayDreamer 1.50
  • old ones:
    • no 116: Sorgenkind 0.40
    • no 114: Ex 5.03beta-ja
    • no 113: Gnu 4x-ja
    • no 112: Asterisk 0.60
    • hint: no 115: Esc is retreated
• results
  • promoted to Division 6: no 01-04 Asterisk, Atlas, DayDreamer, Sorgenkind
  • demoted: due to new structur of next edition decision is made when Edition 11 starts

• order of starting
  • no 01-12 = current ratinglist no 117 to 128 (last edition)
    • already listed in tournament
      • 01 = no 117: Cyber Pagno (Div6 no12)
      • 02 = no 118: Butcher (Div6 no14)
    • not listed in tournament
      • 03 = no 119: Anechka
      • 04 = no 120: Ant
      • 05 = no 121: Dorky
      • 06 = no 122: Scid
      • 07 = no 123: LittleThought
      • 08 = no 124: Gnu5
      • 09 = no 125: Merlin
      • 10 = no 126: Inmi
      • 11 = no 127: Madeleine
      • 12 = no 128: Beowulf
  • no 13-24 = promoted from Division 8 no 1-12 (this edition)
    • 13 = Div8 No01: Critter
    • 14 = Div8 No02: Bison
    • 15 = Div8 No03: N2
    • 16 = Div8 No04: Philou
    • 17 = Div8 No05: NanoSzachy
    • 18 = Div8 No06: Brutus
    • 19 = Div8 No07: Xpdnt
    • 20 = Div8 No08: Glass
    • 21 = Div8 No09: Ayito
    • 22 = Div8 No10: Sage
    • 23 = Div8 No11: OBender
    • 24 = Div8 No12: Dirty

• results
  • Jumpers to higher Divisions - Hint: in each Division at least 2 promotion-places must remain
    • promoted to Div 2: Bison, Critter
    • promoted to Div 3: N2
    • promoted to Div 4: Brutus
    • promoted to Div 5: NanoSzachy
  • promoted to Div 6: No 06-14: Ayito, Butcher, Dirty, Glass, OBender, Philou, Sage, Scid, Xpdnt,
  • promoted to PlayOff to Div 6: No 15 - is higher rated than no 116 (best of 128) from ratinglist: Sorgenkind 0.40
  • others are taken out

• order of starting
  • new entries: Alex, Alf, Atlas, Ayito, Bison, Brutus, Critter, Dirty, Feuerstein, Gibbon, Glass, Lime, Mediocre, N2, OBender, NanoSzachy, Philou, Popochin, Sage, Sungorus, Uralochka, Xpdnt, Zeus (Rodin 2.10h make illegal moves under Arena-Gui 1.10 and was taken out)
• results
  • promoted to Division 7: no 01-12 Ayito, Bison, Brutus, Critter, Dirty, Glass, N2, NanoSzachy, OBender, Philou, Sage, Xpdnt

Going

• due to the very high amount of engines furtheron tournament is limited for the best current top 128 engines
• the following engines are taken out cause of this
  • from Division Junior
    • Alderon, EveAnn, Gk, Monarch, St.Andersen, Sunsetter
  • from Division Senior
    • Alarm, Ax, Bestia, Bodo, Celes, DelphiMax, Faile, Fortress, Gaviota, Gerbil, Ghost, LaDameBlance, Matheus, MiniMax, MSCP, Requiem, Storm, TSCP

• the Division Junior and Senior are closed