Computerchess Tournament


Mate in 3. White moves...

1b6/r2p3p/n7/2pPp3/1p2R2p/8/2R4K/5k2 w - - 0 1 wKh2,Rc2,e4,Pd5/bKf1,Na6,Bb8,Ra7,Pb4,c5,d7,e5,h4,h7

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Facts:

Surak's Trophy: The Trophy is an ongoing engine vs. engine tournament, played on several computers (Athlon 2100+; Athlon 2600+ Laptop, Pentum 4 2400).
Games played so far: #177.343 ! (at 14.Aug.05)
GUI's: The tournament is played within the following GUI's: Fritz, Arena.
Engines: All chess-engines, that are compatible AND stable with the aforementioned GUI's can participate. All programmers are encouraged to send their newest engine-versions (binary).
Number of Engine-versions: #1543 (at 14.Aug.05)
Time-controls: Mixed. Mostly Blitz (5m+1s).
Books:Most with Kurzbuch, (Short-book; max depth 4-8 ply) & Draw-book.
Updates: Infrequently. Just bookmark :-)

Here you can find all the data of the tournament:

TOP 50 Freeware Engines
(Last updated 14.Aug.2005)

Best engines (only best version number/engine (394),, updated 14.Aug.05).

Ranking of ALL engine-versions (1532, txt; last updated 14.Aug.05.)

Ranking of Chessmaster-Settings (140, last updated 08.Jan.05).

Ranking of all engine-versions, listed by name( 1532, txtlast updated 14.Aug.05).

View some interesting or strange games.

Statistics (last updated 26.Dec.03).

Man vs. Machine.(last updated 26.Dec.03) Dr. Axel Schumacher vs. the evil engines (tournament time-control)


  
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