http://computer-chess.org/ 2025-12-15T00:32:32-05:00 http://computer-chess.org/ http://computer-chess.org/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2021-03-06T14:32:22-05:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:conditions&rev=1615059142&do=diff FACE How it works Conditions Ratings Download History ---------- Book: all engine use generic book “ProDeo.bin”-converted for Arena NNUE-Engines: * will follow TCEC ... <https://wiki.chessdom.org/TCEC_Season_20_Rules> Guidelines for use of NNUE at TCEC: text/html 2020-12-10T11:47:30-05:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:download&rev=1607618850&do=diff FACE How it works Conditions Ratings Download History PGN-Files are available under: * FACE Blitz Download text/html 2020-10-07T08:45:38-05:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:edition_1&rev=1602074738&do=diff 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 * started around July 2004 * Time Control: 40 moves in 5 minutes and reating * Arena-GUI (only) * Book: own book for Division A to C, others use Arena little mainbook 1.0 from Harry Schnapp * not a fully liga system … more Conditions text/html 2020-10-07T08:38:03-05:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:edition_10&rev=1602074283&do=diff 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 * 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… text/html 2020-10-07T08:37:04-05:00 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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 Division 1 Bonus No. Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Score Games Perc Moves --------------… text/html 2021-11-08T14:38:02-05:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:face&rev=1636400282&do=diff FACE How it works Conditions Ratings Download History ---------- * Time to say goodbye - I gave up this hobby !! * Many THANKS to RON for giving this content a place for so a very long time period * Stay healthy ---------- Edition 22 * started 2020-08 text/html 2020-09-17T16:07:55-05:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:history&rev=1600373275&do=diff FACE How it works Conditions Ratings Download History History Prehistoric Edition 1 to 10 Edition 11 to 20 Edition 21 to 30 select edition you want to see above text/html 2018-04-25T02:29:45-05:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:how_it_works&rev=1524637785&do=diff FACE How it works Conditions Ratings Download History ---------- How It Works Here is why the FACE tournament works the way it does: * The starting order of Edition 1 was the result of former tournaments (mostly with blitz 2 + 4) which were not published. 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Prehistoric text/html 2021-11-08T14:38:49-05:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:index&rev=1636400329&do=diff Tournaments ---------- * FACE Tournament - Freely Available Chess Engines * Blitz 40 moves in 4 min repeating (since Division 16) - adapted to TC that CCRL do til end of 2019 * Blitz 40 moves in 5 min, repeating (up to Division 15) ---------- * Time to say goodbye - I gave up this hobby !! * Many THANKS to RON for giving this content a place for so a very long time period * Stay healthy text/html 2018-04-25T02:28:53-05:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:participants&rev=1524637733&do=diff text/html 2020-09-17T16:08:26-05:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:prehistoric&rev=1600373306&do=diff FACE How it works Conditions Ratings Download History History Prehistoric Prehistoric 1 Prehistoric 2 Prehistoric 3 Prehistoric 4 Prehistoric 5 Edition 1 to 10 Edition 11 to 20 Edition 21 to 30 * Same people asked why is the starting order of Edition 1 like this, so there was a try to recover these older editions which got partly lost cause data-crash * The games of “Prehistoric Editions” are of course not taken for calculation the ratinglist text/html 2020-09-17T16:13:50-05:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:prehistoric_1&rev=1600373630&do=diff FACE How it works Conditions Ratings Download History History Prehistoric 1 Prehistoric 2 Prehistoric 3 Prehistoric 4 Prehistoric 5 Edition 1 to 10 Edition 11 to 20 Edition 21 to 30 * start in January 2003 * starting order of divisions is due to elo-tables printed in the german chess engine paper magazin “CSS” * Time Control: Blitz 10+10 * Fritz-GUI * Short-Book (CSS) * full liga system text/html 2018-10-26T06:26:51-05:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:prehistoric_2&rev=1540549611&do=diff FACE How it works Conditions Ratings Download History History Prehistoric 1 Prehistoric 2 Prehistoric 3 Prehistoric 4 Prehistoric 5 Edition 1 to 10 Edition 11 to 20 Edition 21 to 30 * started in April 2003 * Time Control: Blitz 10+10 * Fritz-GUI * Short-Book (CSS) * full liga system text/html 2018-10-26T06:27:07-05:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:prehistoric_3&rev=1540549627&do=diff FACE How it works Conditions Ratings Download History History Prehistoric 1 Prehistoric 2 Prehistoric 3 Prehistoric 4 Prehistoric 5 Edition 1 to 10 Edition 11 to 20 Edition 21 to 30 * started in July 2003 * Time Control: Blitz 2+4 * Fritz-GUI * Short-Book (CSS) * full liga system * number of participants are increased for each Division text/html 2018-10-26T06:27:22-05:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:prehistoric_4&rev=1540549642&do=diff FACE How it works Conditions Ratings Download History History Prehistoric 1 Prehistoric 2 Prehistoric 3 Prehistoric 4 Prehistoric 5 Edition 1 to 10 Edition 11 to 20 Edition 21 to 30 * started in Oktober 2003 * Time Control: Blitz 2+4 * Arena-GUI (main-GUI) * Fritz-GUI (only when necessary) * Book 2600 draw (Arena-GUI) * Short-Book (Fritz-GUI) * full liga system for Division 1-2 * not a full liga-system for Division 3-7 (the higher Division is waiting for the pr… text/html 2018-10-26T06:27:37-05:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:prehistoric_5&rev=1540549657&do=diff FACE How it works Conditions Ratings Download History History Prehistoric 1 Prehistoric 2 Prehistoric 3 Prehistoric 4 Prehistoric 5 Edition 1 to 10 Edition 11 to 20 Edition 21 to 30 * 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 recover… text/html 2020-12-10T11:45:13-05:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:ratings&rev=1607618713&do=diff FACE How it works Conditions Ratings Download History ---------- Ratinglist is available under: * FACE Blitz Ratinglist ----------