Chess960 computer chess world championship: The strongest chess tournament ever
Written by content team
23 July 2008
This is the first time we’ll have a Fide-category 29 tournament, in other words, the strongest tournament in the history of chess! For the fourth time during the Chess Classic in Mainz, the Livingston Chess960 computer chess world championship will be held. Last, year we saw a four-program round robin with the strong participants Rybka, Shredder, Jonny and Spike.
Rybka, developed by Vasik Rajlich won the final against the German top program Shredder to clinch home the title. Both programs will play in Mainz again this year and from 31st July to 2nd August.
They will be challenged by two top chess programs, the qualifiers from the ICC online tournament: Naum, made by Alexander Naumov and Deep Sjeng, the brainchild of Belgian programmer Gian-Carlo Pascutto. The engines that will battle it out in Mainz are the numbers 1-4 on the Chess960 computer rating list.
Arbiter Hans Secelle calculated that the average rating of Rybka, Shredder, Naum and Deep Sjeng adds up to (3052 + 2970 + 2956 + 2947) = 2981. This means that we’ll have a Fide-category 29 (!) tournament or, in other words, the strongest tournament in the history of chess….
Source: http://latestchess.com/showNews.php?id=165
Where’s Zappa?
Haha, good question.
(Must be sick, or in bad shape lately.)
Give the chess engines one FRC-chess960 setup a year in advance (not the traditional setup).
Let them build up opening books for 12 months, then…
The engines compete in Mainz the next year with all computer FRC games being in that one non-traditional setup.
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I think Zappa cannot play Chess960. Every engine which supports “setup” can play shuffle chess, but I think these tournaments require that the engine knows the Chess960 castling rules.
The article refers to the CCRL FRC engine rankings which are based on 30,000 40/4m games. But the numbers level is arbitrary and has no mathematitcal or statistical relation to FIDE Elos and categories. So, instead of covering a range from 2346 to 3052, it could be 1346 to 2052 or 3346 to 4052 as well, for example. I think they chose a level which looks realistic (more or less).
(3052 + 2970 + 2956 + 2947) = 2981
Must be some new math. I always thought it is
3052 + 2970 + 2956 + 2947 = 11925
Where did I go wrong?
Rybka really pushes up the average- the others are category 27 or 28, but Rybka is category 32 strength.
These ratings neither are FIDE ratings, nor are they a result from games against FIDE rated players.
I think the remark about the category was made with “tongue in cheek”.
(3052 + 2970 + 2956 + 2947)/4 = 2981
Yes! Zappa did beat Rybka in their match! Why is it not in the championship?!
(3052 + 2970 + 2956 + 2947)/4 = 2981
1) It’s not what it says.
2) It’s not EQUAL 2981 (that what the = sign means), it’s APPROXIMATELY 2981.
3)
(3052 + 2970 + 2956 + 2947)/4 = 2981.25
would be correct.
no 2981.25 is not correct, as rating are always whole number, no decimal places. hence 2981.25 gets rounded down.
So 2981 is correct !
(3052 + 2970 + 2956 + 2947)/4 = 2981
IS NOT correct!
(3052 + 2970 + 2956 + 2947)/4 = 2981.25
IS correct!
(3052 + 2970 + 2956 + 2947) = 2981
is a complete non-sence.
“strongest chess tournament ever”? That’s ridiculous – it’s not even chess.