June Online Blitz, Saturday, 6th June

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On-line engine blitz tourney June
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Post Wed Jun 01, 2022 2:53 pm

The monthly on-line engine blitz tourney for June will take place on:

Saturday June 4, 2:00 PM EST (Boston time), 20:00 CET (Amsterdam time)

To connect:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz -keepAlive 30

(for UCI engines, add -fUCI)

People without account can submit a request for an account to admin@nightmare-chess.nl

Our tournament manager will be: Eendje (Lisebeth at ICC)

The format will be: 9 rounds Swiss 5/1

Lisebeth likes to start the tournament on top of the hour, please try to be on-line 15 minutes prior to tournament start, late joins are not supported.
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Krzysztof Grzelak
Re: On-line engine blitz tourney June
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Post Wed Jun 01, 2022 3:06 pm

Sorry to ask if this tournament can be watched live.
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Joost Buijs
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Post Thu Jun 02, 2022 8:58 am

Yes, this is possible.

You just need a FICS GUI and login as a guest. For instance with Thief you can watch many games at once.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/thief/
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