FCP Tourney-2021, start January 04th, 2021

Hi there,

please be informed that FCP Tourney-2021 will be started January 04th, 2021 (00:30).

All information / links around the tourney can be found on:

Frank's Chess Page
https://www.amateurschach.de

41.000 games to play!
41 participate engines, 2.000 games per engine, 50 games each one against each other!
820 games per round x 50 rounds = 41.000 games.
One round need ~ 3 days!

One game without ponder / resign mode need ~ 45 minutes with the time control:
40/12, 40 moves in 12 minutes "repeatedly" on Intel i9-10900k with 4,9Ghz
5-man endgame bases if possible, 768Mb for hashtables, ponder = off, 1 core per engine!

To FCP Tourney-2020 = 28 changes (13x same engines / engine versions plays FCP Tourney-2020, started for a half year).
After the FCP Qualify Tourney-2021 a lot of new engines are on the start.

We offer:
- games in *.pgn / *.cbh format and a lot of other statistics files, will be uploaded round by round (all files included).
- statistics, generated with Excel by Klaus Wlotzka, will be uploaded round by round (all Excel files included).

- live mode: Current *.html cross-table file by Shredder 13 GUI will be uploaded each 30-minutes.
- live mode: Current *.pgn file from Shredder 13 GUI will be uploaded each 30-minutes
- live mode: Current *.sto result file from Shredder 13 GUI will be uploaded each 30-minutes

The tournament will run around 5 1/2 - 6 months!

Elo average of 41 engines = 3080 (for FCP Tourney-2020 = 3035 Elo).
My Elo calcuation for engines are around 15 points lesser (if you compare it with CEGT results).

13x "Neural Network" engines on start.
2x JAVA based engines on start.
1x xBoard based engine on start.
2x dev=development versions on start.

From TOP-20 engines Scorpio 3.011 missed only (not possible to use with Shredder 12 / 13 GUI and full Neural Network NN power).

I created in the last months a "configuration" site for around 100 TOP-Engines.
Here you can see the Shredder GUI configuration, error's engines produced or additional / important information.
Please click in menue system from my web site on: "Engine Configuration".

A new special FEOBOS opening book will be used.
Available in download file.

The detail page to the tournament have an own News-Ticker!
Now 22 news produced (most during the FCP Qualify Tourney-2021 are still running).

Have fun with the long time category XXXIV (34) chess tournament!
We wish all participate programmers good luck and hope with the own balanced FEOBOS opening book of an accurate draw-quote.

Best
Frank

Hi there,

the tournament started January 04th, 2021 (00:30).

Best
Frank