💡📝Sam Trenholme wrote on Sat, Sep 19, 2009 03:54 PM UTC:
I think you have a legitimate point about tournament time controls and how it may handicap ChessV and Zillions.
However, my description of the Schoolbook rules have the standard 'The rules are otherwise as in FIDE chess' line in them; that includes FIDE tournament time controls. Just as I penalize an engine that can't recognize a castling move the opponent just made (Schoolbook allows the king to move two or three squares while castling, as well as four squares to the left) by resetting the board so the castling move can be done and docking time from the engine that didn't recognize the move, I feel it's fair to penalize engines that don't use FIDE tournament time controls (which have changed over the years, used to be 40 moves in two hours, and are currently 40 moves in 75 minutes, 30 seconds added per move, but because of some grumbling, 40 moves in two hours is still OK).
I might do Schoolbook 2010 as another 'quick chess' tournament (40 moves in 20 minutes, 30 seconds per move for older engines), or I might do it as 40 moves in two hours, or three minutes per move for the engines that can't handle tournament time controls. I haven't decided yet.
As for RTFM and WinBoard fairy, I think all you need to do is add a link to the manual.
Some other points: I have added a disclaimer to Schoolbook 2009 that Joker80's play in the tournament does not reflect its playing strength. In addition, I will have FairyMax be a contestant in Schoolbook 2010, so we can compare it to the other engines.
I hope Zillions gives me permission to enter their engine in to the contest. Or maybe I'll just enter some engines in to the contest without permission, as long as the maker does not object to having the engine in the contest. The reason why I followed the 'permission from the engine maker' rule for Schoolbook 2009 is because there have been issues with this in the past.
However, my description of the Schoolbook rules have the standard 'The rules are otherwise as in FIDE chess' line in them; that includes FIDE tournament time controls. Just as I penalize an engine that can't recognize a castling move the opponent just made (Schoolbook allows the king to move two or three squares while castling, as well as four squares to the left) by resetting the board so the castling move can be done and docking time from the engine that didn't recognize the move, I feel it's fair to penalize engines that don't use FIDE tournament time controls (which have changed over the years, used to be 40 moves in two hours, and are currently 40 moves in 75 minutes, 30 seconds added per move, but because of some grumbling, 40 moves in two hours is still OK).
I might do Schoolbook 2010 as another 'quick chess' tournament (40 moves in 20 minutes, 30 seconds per move for older engines), or I might do it as 40 moves in two hours, or three minutes per move for the engines that can't handle tournament time controls. I haven't decided yet.
As for RTFM and WinBoard fairy, I think all you need to do is add a link to the manual.
Some other points: I have added a disclaimer to Schoolbook 2009 that Joker80's play in the tournament does not reflect its playing strength. In addition, I will have FairyMax be a contestant in Schoolbook 2010, so we can compare it to the other engines.
I hope Zillions gives me permission to enter their engine in to the contest. Or maybe I'll just enter some engines in to the contest without permission, as long as the maker does not object to having the engine in the contest. The reason why I followed the 'permission from the engine maker' rule for Schoolbook 2009 is because there have been issues with this in the past.