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Table of Contents
FACE How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History
History Prehistoric 1 Prehistoric 2 Prehistoric 3 Prehistoric 4 Prehistoric 5

Prehistoric 5

  • started in January 2004
  • Time Control: Blitz 2+4
  • Arena-GUI (Main-GUI)
  • Fritz-GUI (only when necessary)
  • Book 2600 draw (Arena-GUI)
  • Short-Book (Fritz-GUI)
  • all commerical Fritz-Natives are taken out
  • full liga system
  • the crosstables in these edition could not be recovered in full part

Division 1

  • order of starting:
  • taken out: 4 commericials with Fritz-Native-Engines
  • promoted from Pre 4 Division 2 : ELChinito, Commercial, SmarThink, AnMon
  • results:
  • red marked engines are taken out (in next edition)
  • dark red marked engine is taken out cause clone-code (in next edition)

Division 2

  • order of starting:
  • desended from Pre 4 Division 1: Ruffian, Yace, Ikarus, Pharaon
  • promoted from Pre 4 Division 3: Private, Ktulu, Private, Slow
  • Ikarus games are played with Fritz-GUI
  • results:
  • green marked engines go to Division 1 (in next edition)
  • red marked engines are taken out (in next edition)

Division 3

  • order of starting:
  • desended from Pre 4 Division 2: WildCat, Phalanx, Patzer, TCB
  • results:
  • green marked engines go to Division 2 (in next edition)
  • red marked engines go to Division 4 (in next edition)

Division 4 - 8 general

  • order of starting:
  • If you want to know why is the buildup of Division 4 - 8 like this, so please look at the former edition - worse tricky PlayOffs -
  • due to a totally new start of tournament with next edition the desicion wheater an engine stay in one Division or not or is taken out, is done in some cases by tournament-master not only looking at the results

Division 4

  • results:
  • green marked engines go to Division 3 (in next edition)
  • red marked engines go to Division 5 (in next edition)
  • dark red marked engines are taken out (in next edition)

Division 5

  • results:
  • red marked engines go to Division 6 (in next edition)
  • dark red marked engines are taken out (in next edition)

Division 6

  • results:
  • red marked engines go to Division 7 (in next edition)
  • dark red marked engines are taken out (in next edition)

Division 7

  • results:
  • green marked engine goes a joker to Division 5 (in next edition)
  • red marked engines go to Division 8 (in next edition)
  • dark red marked engines are taken out (in next edition)

Division 8

  • order of starting:
  • new entries: Mr, Alex, Armageddon
  • results:
  • dark red marked engines are taken out (in next edition)

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