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The main Battle of the Goths event was the General 10x8 Championship 2008, where the engines had to combat each other in a full round robin over 5 different opening positions: Gothic, Bird, Embassy, Capablanca, and Carrera Chess. Some exceptions to this were made: engines not licensed for Gothic Chess played a substitute in stead. TSCP Gothic, which is unable to play Embassy, Capablanca and Carrera was allowed to play its games from three different fantasy setups in stead.

Results of General 10x8 Championship 2008:

                              Joker TJche Smirf Smirf TSCP  Fairy BigLi ArcBi 
 1. Joker80 n                 ##### 11110 11010 10010 11111 11111 11111 11111 
                              ##### 10010 01110 11011 11011 11011 11111 11111   80%  56.0 

 2. TJchess10x8               00001 ##### 0=001 11101 11111 11101 11111 01111 
                              01101 ##### 11110 =0101 =1101 11111 01011 11111   72%  50.5 

 3. Smirf 1.73h               00101 1=110 ##### 10111 10100 11110 01111 11111 
                              10001 00001 ##### 11101 00111 111== 11011 11111   68%  47.5 

 4. Smirf Donation            01101 00010 01000 ##### 10001 =0110 101=1 11101 
                              00100 =1010 00010 ##### 01010 1=11= 1111= 11111   53%  37.0 

 5. TSCP Gothic               00000 00000 01011 01110 ##### 10=10 10=11 111=1 
                              00100 =0010 11000 10101 ##### 01111 01011 11111   51%  36.0 

 6. Fairy-Max 4.8 v           00000 00010 00001 =1001 01=01 ##### 11111 100=0 
                              00100 00000 000== 0=00= 10000 ##### 00=11 01111   34%  24.0 

 7. BigLion80 4apr            00000 00000 10000 010=0 01=00 00000 ##### 0110= 
                              00000 10100 00100 0000= 10100 11=00 ##### 10111   26%  18.5 

 8. ArcBishop80 1.00          00000 10000 00000 00010 000=0 011=1 1001= ##### 
                              00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 10000 01000 #####   15%  10.5

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Derived performance ratings:

Rank Name               Elo    +    - games score oppo. draws 
   1 Joker80 n         2432   96   83    70   80%  2110    0% 
   2 TJchess10x8       2346   83   76    70   72%  2122    4% 
   3 Smirf 1.73h       2304   80   75    70   68%  2128    4% 
   4 Smirf Donation    2165   73   73    70   53%  2148    9% 
   5 TSCP Gothic       2160   73   73    70   51%  2149    6% 
   6 Fairy-Max 4.8 v   2027   72   77    70   34%  2168   11% 
   7 BigLion80 4apr    1945   76   84    70   26%  2179    7% 
   8 ArcBishop80 1.00  1822   86  103    70   15%  2197    4%

Conditions

Round robin with 10 games per pairing
Core 2 Duo, 2.4GHz, 128MB hash
time control 55'+5"
Windows Vista, WinBoard 4.3.13 (Smirf using the Smirfoglot WB adapter).
Games started from 5 different positions, each played with black and white, taken from the following set:
rnbqckabnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNBQCKABNR w KQkq - 0 1 (Gothic)
rnbcqkabnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNBCQKABNR w KQkq - 0 1 (Bird)
rnbackqbnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNBACKQBNR w KQkq - 0 1 (Embassy)
rnabqkbcnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNABQKBCNR w KQkq - 0 1 (Capablanca)
ranbqkbnar/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RANBQKBNCR w KQkq - 0 1 (Carrera)
rnbqakcbnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNBQAKCBNR w KQkq - 0 1 (Gothic substitute)
rnbaqkcbnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNBAQKCBNR w KQkq - 0 1 (Embassy substitute)
rabnqknbcr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RABNQKNBCR w KQkq - 0 1 (Capablanca substitute)
rcbnqknbar/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RCBNQKNBAR w KQkq - 0 1 (Carrera substitute)

These initial positions wer set up in the engines by using 'setboard' or 'edit' to load a position, or feeding them moves from the Gothic position (a kludge to accomodate TSCP-G). The ChessLive! viewer does not show any such loaded moves, but they do appear in the PGN file. So ignore all moves in the PGN that don't have annotations: they were not made by the engines, but part of the setup procedure.