chesswar

Rules

  • Swiss system tournaments: 11 rounds (Group A: 15 rounds)
  • Tie-breaks: Buchholz, Progressive, Performance
  • Time controls:
    — Group A: 40 moves in 40 minutes
    — Group B: 40 moves in 30 minutes
    — Group C: 40 moves in 20 minutes
    — Group D: 40 moves in 20 minutes
    — Group E: 40 moves in 20 minutes
    — Group F: 40 moves in 20 minutes
    — Promotion: 40 moves in 20 minutes
  • Default main hashtables size: 128Mb (authors may request more ...up to 1024Mb)
  • Nalimov tablebases (all 3, 4 and 5 men, some 6 men)...cache set to 32Mb
  • Scorpio egbb (all 3, 4 and 5 men)...cache set to 32Mb
  • Learning on, ponder on, resign set to -9 (3 fold)
  • Engines are allowed to use only 1 CPU
  • Engines use their own book
  • UCI engines with no book may use my custom tournament PolyGlot book
  • WB engines with no book may use my custom tournament BookThinker book
  • Promotion tournament: external opening books are not allowed
  • French rules are used for ELO calculation (ELO ratings are not rounded)
  • All winboard debug are saved and available upon request
  • Engine upgrades are allowed at anytime
  • Private engines can register, but I will take them in only if I feel they are an original work. Please don't send me clones!