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FACE Tournament

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Edition 11

  • started around May 2010
  • 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 7

  • results
    • promoted to Division 6: no 01-04:
    • demoted to Division 8: no 13-16:

Division 8

  • order of starting
  • engines > 5 years are allowed
  • from Division 5 no 04-16 (last edition): BB/Umko, Cerebro, Leila, Amy, Delphil, Counter, Gaia, Homer, Amateur, Aice, Muse, Bringer, Greko
  • Hint: Umko 0.90 is another Derivate of Fruit/Toga - See Winboard forum http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=50830 - so its taken out
  • promoted from Division 9 no 01-04 (this edition): Deuterium, DayDreamer, Dirty, Resp
  • results
    • promoted to Division 7: no 01-05: DayDreamer, Deuterium, Dirty, Cerebro, Delphil
    • demoted to Division 9: no 13-16: Leila, Amy, Greko, Aice

Division 9

  • Average BElo 2.382
  • order of starting
  • no engines > 5 years
  • from Division 5 no 16-24 (last edition): Tytan, ThorsHammer, Romi, Arion, Patzer, Horizon, Natwarlal
  • from Division 6 no 03-07 (last edition): Dirty, Poruznik , Philou, Resp, Cheese
  • promoted from Division 10 no 01-04 (this edition): DayDreamer, Deuterium, Gaviota, Glass
  • results
    • promoted to Division 8: no 01-04: Deuterium, DayDreamer, Dirty, Resp
    • demoted to Division 10: no 13-16: Arion, Horizon, Gaviota, Natwarlal

Division 10

  • order of starting
    • no engines > 5 years
    • from old Division 6 no 08-21 (last edition): Ayito, DayDreamer, Flux, Glass, Joker, Sage, Scid, Sorgenkind
    • promoted from Division 11 no 01-08 (this edition): Amundsen, Ares, Deuterium, Gaviota, Little Thought, OliThink, Rattate, Rodin
  • results
    • promoted to Division 9: no 01-04: DayDreamer, Deuterium, Gaviota, Glass
    • demoted to Division 11: no 13-16: Ares, OliThink, Rattate, Scid

Division 11

  • order of starting
    • no engines > 5 years
    • new entries or new versions
      • Alex, Amundsen, Ares, Deuterium, Gaviota, KMT, Little Thought, Magnum, Myrddin, OBender, OliThink, Pawny, Rattate, Rodin, Sungorus, Waxman
  • results
    • promoted to Division 10: no 01-08: Amundsen, Ares, Deuterium, Gaviota, Little Thought, OliThink, Rattate, Rodin
    • demoted and taken out: no 13-16: Alex, Magnum, Myrddin, Waxman

Changes

  • new 1st Division = last Division 1 no 01-12
    • Booot, Critter, Delfi, Grapefruit, Komodo, Protector, Rybka, Spark, Spike, Stockfish, Thinker, TwistedLogic
  • new 2nd Division = last Division 1 no 13-24
    • Alaric, Bison, Bug, Colossus, Crafty, Cyrano, ET, Frenzee, Naum, Scorpio, SlowBlitz, WildCat
  • new 3rd Division = last Division 2 no 05-16
    • Alfil, Amyan, AnMon, Aristarch, Chronos, List, Movei, Pharaon, ProDeo, Pseudo, Ruffian, Sloppy
  • new 4th Division
    • 01-08 = last Division 2 no 17-24
      • Garbo, Hamsters, Jonny, Ktulu, Petir, Trace, Ufim, Zappa
    • 09-12 = last Division 3 no 05-08
      • Hermann, SmarThink, Arasan, SOS
  • new 5th Division = last Division 3 no 09-21
    • Baron, Pepito, Rotor, GreenLight, Yace, Nejmet, Tornado, Tao, Pupsi, Bruja, N2, LGEvolution, Anatoli
    • Hint: Tornado firsty was retreated by author, but little time later it come back !! - so these Division got only 3 Promoters from 6th Division
  • new 6th Division
    • 01-04 = last Division 3 no 22-24
      • FrancescaMad, KnightDreamer, Danasah
    • 05-12 = last Division 4 no 05-13
      • LambChop, Brutus, Matacz, Postmodernist, KingOfKings, NanoSzachy, Quark, Dragon, Queen
  • new Division 9 (no engines > 5 years)
    • old Division 5 no 16-24 and Division 6 no 03-07
      • 01 Tytan 2007/06/26
      • 02 ThorsHammer-ja 2009/05/24
      • 03 Romi 2008/01/31
      • 04 Arion 2006/03/07
      • – Eeyore 2004/12/01 (taken out)
      • 05 Patzer 2006/08/28
      • 06 Horizon 2008/02/01
      • 07 Natwarlal 2007/03/04
      • 08 Dirty 2010/03/15
      • 09 Poruznik 2009/01/25
      • 10 Philou 2010/02/19
      • 11 Resp-ja 2008/02/14
      • 12 Cheese 2008/11/02
  • new Division 10 (no engines > 5 years)
  • new Division 11 (no engines > 5 years)
    • new entries or new versions - must run under Arena 1.10
      • 01 Alex
      • 02 Amundsen
      • 03 Ares
      • 04 Deuterium
      • 05 Gaviota
      • 06 KMT
      • 07 Little Thought
      • 08 Magnum
      • 09 Myrddin
      • 10 OBender
      • 11 OliThink
      • 12 Pawny
      • 13 Rattate
      • 14 Rodin
      • 15 Sungorus
      • 16 Waxman

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): …
  • 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: Bisin, 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, Rozor, 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 = 2227 (Score after Div 7)
    • 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 - 2241
      • Div 8 no 13: Atlas 2.20 - 2245
      • Div 8 no 14: Feuerstein 0.461 - 2229
      • Joker: DayDreamer 1.50
    • old ones:
      • no 116: Sorgenkind 0.40 - 2227
      • no 114: Ex 5.03beta-ja - none
      • no 113: Gnu 4x-ja - none
      • no 112: Asterisk 0.60 - 2250
      • 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 (last average of division in brackets)- Hint: in each Division at least 2 promotion-places must remain
      • promoted to Div 2 (2584): Bison, Critter
      • promoted to Div 3 (2478): N2
      • promoted to Div 4 (2409): Brutus
      • promoted to Div 5 (2332): 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 - scored better than no 116 (best of 128) from ratinglist: Sorgenkind 0.40 2227
    • 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

Edition 1 to Edition 9


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