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Table of Contents
FACE | How it works | Conditions | Ratings | Download | History |
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Prehistoric | Edition 1 | Edition 2 | Edition 3 | Edition 4 | Edition 5 | Edition 6 | Edition 7 | Edition 8 | Edition 9 | Edition 10 | Edition 11 and later |
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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
Division 1 Addon
Division 1
- 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): Bison, Bug, Critter, Komodo
- results
- demoted: no 13-24 go to Division 2
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
Division 3
- 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
Division 4
- 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
Division 5
- 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
- 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
Division 6
- 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
- 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 Division 6
- 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
Division 7
- 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
Division 8
- 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
Changes
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