http://computer-chess.org/ 2010-09-09T23:30:52-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/ http://computer-chess.org/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2009-08-25T06:31:41-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:conditions&rev=1251196301&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History Conditions ---------- Time-control: 40 moves in 5 minutes, repeating Ponder: Off Chess GUI: ARENA CPU: Intel Pentium M 1.73 GHz OS: MS Windows XP SP2 Hash Tables: All engines up to 64 MB (Edition 1 to Edition 6 there was 64 MB for Division A to C, 32 MB otherwise) Pawn Hash: 4 MB (pawn hash settings are changed by request of author) EGTB: No. In the German chess magazine “CSS” (paper edit… text/html 2010-06-21T04:36:01-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:division_1&rev=1277109361&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History Division 1 Division 2 Division 3 Division 4 Division 5 Division 6 Division 7 Division 8 Division 9 Division 10 Division 11 Division 12 * order of starting * from Division 1 no 01-12 (last edition): Booot, Critter, Delfi, Grapefruit, Komodo, Protector, Rybka, Spark, Spike, Stockfish, Thinker, Toga, TwistedLogic * Hint: for “Fruit-family” Toga comes instead Grapefruit, cause Vadim Demichev ent… text/html 2010-09-09T11:58:38-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:division_10&rev=1284047918&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History Division 1 Division 2 Division 3 Division 4 Division 5 Division 6 Division 7 Division 8 Division 9 Division 10 Division 11 Division 12 ---------- * order of starting * no engines > 3 years * retired: Arion, Ayito, Natwarlal text/html 2010-09-09T11:54:26-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:division_11&rev=1284047666&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History Division 1 Division 2 Division 3 Division 4 Division 5 Division 6 Division 7 Division 8 Division 9 Division 10 Division 11 Division 12 * order of starting * no engines > 3 years * demoted from Division 10 no 13-16 (last edition): Ares, OliThink, Rattate, Scid * from Division 11 no 09-12 (last edition): KMT, OBender, Pawny, Sungorus * new entries or promoted from Division 12 no 01-08 … text/html 2010-09-09T11:44:53-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:division_12&rev=1284047093&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History Division 1 Division 2 Division 3 Division 4 Division 5 Division 6 Division 7 Division 8 Division 9 Division 10 Division 11 Division 12 * order of starting * new entries: * 01 Chaturanga 2010/02/07 * 02 Darmenios 2010/04/05 * 03 Eeyore 2010/07/04 * 04 Ghost 2010/06/29 * 05 Plisk 2010/06/17 * 06 Alex 2010/08/30 * 07 Beowulf 2010/08/24 * 08 Eeyore 2010/07/04 * 09 Ifrit… text/html 2010-05-21T04:06:35-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:division_2&rev=1274429195&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History Division 1 Division 2 Division 3 Division 4 Division 5 Division 6 Division 7 Division 8 Division 9 Division 10 Division 11 Division 12 * order of starting * from Division 1 no 13-24 (last edition): Alaric, Bison, Bug, Colossus, Crafty, Cyrano, ET, Frenzee, Naum, Scorpio, SlowBlitz, WildCat * promoted from Division 3 no 01-04 (this edition): ... text/html 2010-05-21T04:10:38-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:division_3&rev=1274429438&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History Division 1 Division 2 Division 3 Division 4 Division 5 Division 6 Division 7 Division 8 Division 9 Division 10 Division 11 Division 12 * order of starting * from Division 2 no 05-16 (last edition): Alfil, Amyan, AnMon, Aristarch, Chronos, Loop, Movei, Pharaon, ProDeo, Pseudo, Ruffian, Sloppy * promoted from Division 4 no 01-04 (this edition): ... text/html 2010-05-21T04:15:40-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:division_4&rev=1274429740&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History Division 1 Division 2 Division 3 Division 4 Division 5 Division 6 Division 7 Division 8 Division 9 Division 10 Division 11 Division 12 * order of starting * from Division 2 no 17-24 (last edition): Garbo, Hamsters, Jonny, Ktulu, Petir, Trace, Ufim, Zappa * from Division 3 no 05-08 (last edition): Hermann, SmarThink, Arasan, SOS * promoted from Division 5 no 01-04 (this edition): ... text/html 2010-05-21T04:19:49-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:division_5&rev=1274429989&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History Division 1 Division 2 Division 3 Division 4 Division 5 Division 6 Division 7 Division 8 Division 9 Division 10 Division 11 Division 12 * order of starting * from Division 3 no 09-21 (last edition): Baron, Pepito, Rotor, GreenLight, Yace, Nejmet, Tornado, Tao, Pupsi, Bruja, N2, LGEvolution, Anatoli * promoted from Division 6 no 01-03 (this edition): ... text/html 2010-05-21T04:25:00-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:division_6&rev=1274430300&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History Division 1 Division 2 Division 3 Division 4 Division 5 Division 6 Division 7 Division 8 Division 9 Division 10 Division 11 Division 12 * order of starting * from Division 3 no 22-24 (last edition): FrancescaMad, KnightDreamer, Danasah * from Division 4 no 05-13 (last edition): LambChop, Brutus, Matacz, Postmodernist, KingOfKings, NanoSzachy, Quark, Dragon, Queen * promoted from Division … text/html 2010-09-09T12:09:01-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:division_7&rev=1284048541&do=diff FACE 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2010-04-27T16:58:50-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:edition_1&rev=1272401930&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History Prehistoric Edition 1 Edition 2 Edition 3 Edition 4 Edition 5 Edition 6 Edition 7 Edition 8 Edition 9 Edition 10 Edition 11 * 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 2010-04-28T05:48:11-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:edition_10&rev=1272448091&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History Prehistoric Edition 1 Edition 2 Edition 3 Edition 4 Edition 5 Edition 6 Edition 7 Edition 8 Edition 9 Edition 10 Edition 11 * started around Juli 2009 * Time control: 40 moves in 5 minutes and reating * Arena-GUI (only) * Book: 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Edition 11 * started around July 2007 * 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 1.00 by Harry Schnapp is used. * not a full liga system … more Conditions text/html 2010-04-27T16:56:29-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:edition_8&rev=1272401789&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History Prehistoric Edition 1 Edition 2 Edition 3 Edition 4 Edition 5 Edition 6 Edition 7 Edition 8 Edition 9 Edition 10 Edition 11 * started around January 2008 * 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 1.00 by Harry Schnapp is used. * not a full liga system … more Conditions text/html 2010-04-27T16:56:09-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:edition_9&rev=1272401769&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History Prehistoric Edition 1 Edition 2 Edition 3 Edition 4 Edition 5 Edition 6 Edition 7 Edition 8 Edition 9 Edition 10 Edition 11 Division 1 Add On * Derivates of Interest including guests * Grapefruit 1.00ap (Fruit/Toga derivate) * download <http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discussion-board/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4543&sid=dd217b6255f57863b7de2db808f45f53> text/html 2010-09-08T04:53:10-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:face&rev=1283935990&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History * 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 text/html 2010-04-27T16:59:14-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:history&rev=1272401954&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History Prehistoric Edition 1 Edition 2 Edition 3 Edition 4 Edition 5 Edition 6 Edition 7 Edition 8 Edition 9 Edition 10 Edition 11 select edition you want to see above text/html 2010-04-28T06:15:34-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:how_it_works&rev=1272449734&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants 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. Some people have requested results and games, but all records were lost in a data-crash when the hardware system was changed. Recovery attempts were made - see here: ... Prehistoric text/html 2010-07-09T05:24:49-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:index&rev=1278667489&do=diff Tournaments FACE Tournaments ---------- * FACE Tournament - Freely Available Chess Engines ---------- * Blitz 40 moves in 5 min - and repeating * current result-table of running Division: look at CCW Forum * Contact: text/html 2010-05-25T05:01:23-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:participants&rev=1274778083&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History * for date of release and last used version please check * <http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list#chess_engine_list> text/html 2009-10-07T10:17:44-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:playoff_div_8&rev=1254925064&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History Division 1 Division 2 Division 3 Division 4 Division 5 Division 6 Division 7 Division 8 Promotion Div 8 Qualify A Qualify B PreQualify * order of starting * no 01-08: 8 best engines from Qualify A * no 09-16: 8 best engines from Qualify B * results * promoted to Division 8 (or higher): no 01-04: * engine having a fitting score to a higher Division is set in there * at least 2 place… text/html 2010-07-15T10:00:59-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:prehistoric&rev=1279202459&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History History Prehistoric 1 Prehistoric 2 Prehistoric 3 Prehistoric 4 Prehistoric 5 * 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 2010-07-15T10:02:06-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:prehistoric_1&rev=1279202526&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History History Prehistoric 1 Prehistoric 2 Prehistoric 3 Prehistoric 4 Prehistoric 5 * 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 2010-07-15T10:02:43-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:prehistoric_2&rev=1279202563&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History History Prehistoric 1 Prehistoric 2 Prehistoric 3 Prehistoric 4 Prehistoric 5 * started in April 2003 * Time Control: Blitz 10+10 * Fritz-GUI * Short-Book (CSS) * full liga system text/html 2010-07-15T10:03:05-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:prehistoric_3&rev=1279202585&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History History Prehistoric 1 Prehistoric 2 Prehistoric 3 Prehistoric 4 Prehistoric 5 * 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 2010-07-15T10:03:28-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:prehistoric_4&rev=1279202608&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History History Prehistoric 1 Prehistoric 2 Prehistoric 3 Prehistoric 4 Prehistoric 5 * 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 promoters of lower Division … text/html 2010-07-15T10:04:00-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:prehistoric_5&rev=1279202640&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History History Prehistoric 1 Prehistoric 2 Prehistoric 3 Prehistoric 4 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 text/html 2010-09-09T12:17:41-04:00 http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:ratings&rev=1284049061&do=diff FACE Divisions How it works Conditions Participants Ratings Download History * Reference * since Edition 11 its gauged with Offset 2.400 * former Editions were gauged with Fruit 2.10 at Elo 2.700 (Offset 2.377) * the rating list is calculated with Bayeselo (prior 2.0) * only engines > 50 games are counted * elo is also shown in tournament-tables