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Table of Contents
FACE How it works Conditions Ratings Download History
History Prehistoric Edition 1 Edition 2 Edition 3 Edition 4 Edition 5 Edition 6 Edition 7 Edition 8 Edition 9 Edition 10 Edition 11 to 20 Edition 21 to 30

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

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

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

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