Sedat's Computer Chess Tournament ( SCCT- Knockout 40/120 ) Antalya 2006

Tournament Conditions:

Processors                 Main Memory              O/S                             Used GUI                     Tournament Type       Time Control               HashTable Size          Ponder                       Opening Book            Tablebases                TB Cache                   All Games are available Tournament Director

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ 2400 MHz 2048 MB DDRAM Windows XP Professional x64 ChessProgram9,Arena 1.99b3,DeepShredder10,ChessPartner5.4 Knockout - 1 cycle 40 moves in 120 min,40 moves in 60 min,Rest in 30 min 512 MB ON / OFF OFF OFF OFF at DOWNLOAD area ! Sedat Canbaz

General Rules:

* Its not allowed different: - Slower,faster hardwares;adapted time controls * All Participants must be own original work (its not allowed clones) * Its allowed only 1 Participant per Author * In case of seriously Engine's bugs (loose on time,crashes...) GUI / Engine will be changed   or the game will be replayed

TOP 26's Detailed Information

Chess Tiger 15.0 - C.Theron (F)/32 Bit/CB/SP CM10th Paralyse -J.de Koning (NL)/32 Bit/WB/SP Deep Frenzee 3.0-S. Fischer (DEN)/ 64 Bit/WB/SMP Deep Junior 10 - A.Ban (ISR)/32 Bit/CB/SMP Deep Pharaon 3.5.1 -F.ZIBI(F)/32 Bit/UCI/SMP Deep Shredder 10 -S.Meyer-Kahlen(D)/64 Bit/UCI/SMP Deep Sjeng 1.6 -G.C.Pascutto (B)/32 Bit/UCI/SMP Deep Fritz 8 -F.Morsch (NL)/32 Bit/CB/SMP Toga II 1.2.1 -Gaksch/Letouzey /32 Bit/UCI/SP Gandalf 6.01 -S.Suurballe (DEN)/32 Bit/UCI/SP  Glaurung 1.2.1 -T.Romstad (NOR)/ 64 Bit/UCI/SMP Hiarcs X54 64bit UCI -M.Uniacke (GB)/64 Bit/UCI/SP Jonny 2.89 -J.Zwanzger (D)/32 Bit/WB/SP Ktulu 8 - R.Paidar (IR)/32 Bit/UCI/SP   ListMP 11.64 -F.Reul (D)/64 Bit/UCI/SMP  Naum 2.0 -A.Naumov (CAN)/64 Bit/UCI/SP Ruffian 2.1.0 -P.Valfridsson (SWE)/32 Bit/UCI/SP Rybka 2.2 - V.Rajlich (CZ)/64 Bit/UCI/SMP Scorpio 1.8 -D.Shawul (ETH)/32 Bit/WB/SMP SlowChess Blitz WV2.1 -J. Kreuzer(USA)/32 Bit/WB/SP SmarThink 1.00 - S.Markoff (RUS)/64 Bit/UCI/SP  Spike 1.2 Turin -Schäfer,Böhm(D)/32 Bit/UCI/SP The Baron 2.3 - R.Piji (NL)64 Bit/WB/SP Zap!Chess Paderborn -A.Cozzie (USA)/64 Bit/CB/SMP 64 Bit =  Windows x64 bit 32 Bit =  Windows x32 bit CB =  ChessBase Native Engine WB =  Winboard Engine UCI = UCI Engine SMP = Multi-Processor Engine SP =  Single-Processor Engine t2 =  Engine uses 2CPU

Hardware Information:

-Running on 2 equal computers - AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ 2400 MHz -Axon Benchmark of all PC's: (00:00:26.3 sec.)   [3501806 pps.]   PowX= 10.910 -Internet connections are disabled as protecting from viruses,sparms,warms... -The computers are daily minimum 1 time ShutDown or Restarted -The Threads,Hashtables,Pondering of each engine are oftenly checked by Task Manager Program

Chess GUI Configurations:

-For all GUI's are setuped separately folder of engines (each GUI uses different engine.exe) -ChessProgram9 (Fritz) : 05.07.2006 - UCI.dll: 2.0.1.0 ;  Game Options - Draw ''Early'' , Resign ''Early'' -Arena 1.99b3:Restart Arena after 8 games;Adjudicate as a loss below -500 centipawns;Adjudicate as a draw when 180 moves played;Always use UCI Filter;Extended 'level' command for WB engines;Autoflag ON -Deep Shredder 10 GUI :Shredderbases are not activited

Engine Configurations:

To run the engines at full performance and strength: -As far as possible the critacal engines will be played  under best suitable chess gui -All Multi-Processor Engines (SMP) are playing with ''Ponder off'' -Pondering is enable when the match is going : Single-Processor Engine against Single-Processor Engine -All engines are used the default settings,exception for CM10th Paralyse (its playing with a setting by G.Banks)

Opening Book / DB Configurations:

-All participants will play without opening books,just only if the both games will be finish as a draw, then the third... game will be started from a opening position(to avoid repeating of double games)