OpenChess

TCEC MATCH 4

Note: After a few bugs and problems arising the relay is now well underway after some maintenance.

http://www.tcec-chess.org/live.php

LIVE NOW!

For chat please visit http://chessbomb.com/
Note: Don't pay too much attention to their built-in computer analysis since it's running multi pv which slows it down considerably.

Misc:
Openings: PGN can be downloaded from the live page.
See the info page for more details.

Participants:
Rybka 4 64-bit 4CPU
Naum 4.2 64-bit 4CPU

Time Control:
120 Minutes for the first 40 moves - 60 minutes for the next 20 moves then
15 minutes for the rest + 30 seconds added per move from move 61

Graphical User Interface:
Type: ChessGUI 0.197c
Resign: 7.00 eval for 3 moves
Draw: After move 40 an eval of +0.05/-0.05 for 10 moves
Ponder: Off
Hash: 2048 MB
Nalimov Tablebases: "3 4 5 Men"

Match halted due to a time control bug (again). Sorry for the inconvenience, hopefully it will be resumed around noon.

And we're live. Hopefully for good this time!

What was the reason for you to switch from Deep Fritz 12 GUI to ChessGUI ?
For me Fritz GUI looks more stable than ChessGUI.
Less/No Time control bug's.

btw. great work you are doing

CarstenL wrote:What was the reason for you to switch from Deep Fritz 12 GUI to ChessGUI ?
For me Fritz GUI looks more stable than ChessGUI.
Less/No Time control bug's.

btw. great work you are doing

Thanks! Let me see:

DF 12 has no way of output anything else automatically than a html document with moves. At least not that I know of.
It can't send the "time left" comment and Chessbase has a near non-existing customer support. Their database system is
very unfriendly when it comes to modifications and it's very vulnerable if the GUI crashes.

Matthias of ChessGUI has, on the other hand, already implemented several things that I've suggested, like a LivePgn with evals from white point of view.
The fact that he has fixed the surfacing bugs within ~8 hours, sometimes within half an hour says it all.

Right now the version I am using isn't public (it shouldn't be long) and it's a very, very nice piece of software. It has no bugs that I know of, at least no bugs that are affecting the current match.

Hope this helps!

CarstenL wrote:What was the reason for you to switch from Deep Fritz 12 GUI to ChessGUI ?
For me Fritz GUI looks more stable than ChessGUI.
Less/No Time control bug's.

btw. great work you are doing

Here is a paradox:

the fastest way for a user to fix bugs in free software is to use the software.

Cheers,
Matthias.

The match has ended 20.5 to 11.5 in Rybka's favor.

Games can be found on the official site.

The next event, TCEC Tournament 3 will start soon, follow the news on the main site.