09 August 2009

OpenWar broadcasted chess tournaments

One of the nicest places for following live tournament computer games is Olivier Deville's Openwar tournaments. You may see the actual running game using Tim McBurney's TLCV free software, while chatting with a nice group of computer afficionados. In the evening (european hours) there are most often a dozen of people chatting there, and sometimes a couple dozen ones, with always some of the most famous people in the computer chess scene discussing a variety of topics in a light friendly atmosphere.
Explanations and links are available here : http://www.open-aurec.com/chesswar/broadcast.html.
The OpenWar series of tournaments is a most interesting one, with all best free engines playing together with some of the best commercial ones and quite a few private or experimental engines. In the present 6th edition, after 39 of 91 rounds Naum 4 leads (38/39) ahead of Fruit 2.3.5m (37.5), Rybka 3 (36) and Bright 0.5a (35). Present edition is a 92 players single round robin played at 15' + 5'' Fisher-type time control. Up-to-date standings are here .

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