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Incredible tournament, incredible work! On what game and when will be the next Championship? I think next year.Will try to get - ask for the availability of the programs Damy and TDKing. I will also ask the author of Maximus to be able to start next year. Hi Krzysztof, may be you can also ask Nicol...

Krzystof, without any doubt i will share the next version of the Damage engine. However my focus is to understand some results of the current version of Damage. The 2 draws within a won position, due to move repetition, is clear. As I mostly test against KR, the endgame is never played and the prog...

Jelle, as i struggle to replicate the tournament results with black, could you play a 158-games DXP match with SB against Damage. If you both want to use 6p DB, then change the 5 for the bb-cache into 1. bb-cache = 1 bb-size = 6 bb-preload = 6 Maybe with another program (as i normally use KR), some...

No problem, but considering the draw in the "Final standings - round 24" Scan should have 1 point less, and Tornado 1 point more. In my opinion everything is well. But I will check again just in case. Everything checked and it's fine. I invite you to tomorrow for the last two rounds. I probably mis...

No problem, but considering the draw in the "Final standings - round 24" Scan should have 1 point less, and Tornado 1 point more.

Hi Bert, 45. .... 1-6 is indeed wrong, when played properly it would have been a draw.

Begin this year I promised Krzysztof a new version for his tournament, gave it yesterday.
Considering some posts I saw I like to mention that Sjende Blyn is not based upon Scan, nor any other program.

Actually this means that it: Supports to play one game, either manually or via DXP. Takes risks to win a game against a weaker program / human. The drawback is that it will do the same against a top program, which increases the chance to loose against a top program. Utilizes the available processor ...

May be I should remind you guys that Sjende Blyn was set to play in a tournament, against different programs of varying strength, where each program runs on a seperate computer. It was not set to play blitz matches, against one program with excellent strength, on one computer. You asked Krzysztof to...

Because Krzysztof was having problems with playing 158 2-move ballot games with the tournament version of Sjende Blyn, I proposed to make several "quick & dirty" hacks in the program, he accepted, but now is demanding that I develop several other features too. Sorry, but this will not be developed i...

Krzysztof, thank you for running the match. I would like to point out what looks like a problem with your match configuration. You have sjende blyn set to use 16 search threads and pondering on, and kingsrow to use 8 search threads and pondering on. That means that both program are searching at the...

I am sorry to write so, but you have to ask the developer of the program Sjende Blyn. Krzysztof. Why didn't you ask him? You asked me. But all right: Jelle, can Krzysztof play a match Sjende Blyn vs Scan 3.1? Jan-Jaap Hi Jan-Jaap, You are right !!!! I think that all of the members of this forum are...

I fixed some bugs and applied changes to the handling of isolated man (geisoleerde schijven) and locks (opsluitingen).
Apparently, it worked

Krzysztof: Thank you for organizing this tournament! Playing this amount of games is quite an effort! Thank you Jan-Jaap for the congratulations. You, and Fabien, also my congratulations with the 3rd and 2nd place respectively! @Jan-Jaap Sjende Blyn is the only program in the top 5 of this tournamen...

Hi Krzysztof,
I think you made the right decision.
Jelle