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Test tourney TT5 was the first event I conducted here that was not corrupted by unfair CPU alotment. In previous tourneys there are strong indications the latter occurred due to engine processes that kept hanging after the game, heavily loading the CPU. My OS does not seem very good at fairly distributing the CPU time when there is more demand than processing power: in the task manager I saw that some processes then get 25% CPU time, while others have 50%, for extended periods of time. For TT5 I repaired the bug in Smirfoglot that made Smirf hang after the opponent resigned, and added Fairy-Max to the kill list, which solved all problems with hanging processes.

Results of Test Tourney #5:

 1. Joker80 1.1.14e           ##### 10110 11010 11101 11111 11111 11111 11111
    (H.G.Muller)              ##### 11=00 11111 11111 10111 11111 11111 11111   88%  61.5 (2185.0, 1773.5)

 2. TJchess10x8 0.109         01001 ##### 10111 01100 1=11= 11111 11111 11111
    (Tony Hecker)             00=11 ##### 01000 11111 1=001 11011 11111 11111   74%  52.0 (2280.0, 1420.5)

 3. Smirf 1.71d               00101 01000 ##### =1110 11110 11111 11111 11111
    (Reinhard Scharnagl)      00000 10111 ##### 10000 10101 11011 11111 11111   68%  47.5 (2325.0, 1204.5)

 4. TSCP Gothic               00010 10011 =0001 ##### =11=1 11111 11111 11111
    (M.Langeveld/T.Kerrigan)  00000 00000 01111 ##### 0=001 00111 11111 11011   60%  42.0 (2380.0, 1024.5)

 5. Fairy-Max 4.8 t           00000 0=00= 00001 =00=0 ##### 11111 1=111 11110
    (H.G.Muller)              01000 0=110 01010 1=110 ##### 11111 11111 11111   58%  40.5 (2395.0, 924.8)

 6. ArcBishop80 1.00          00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 ##### 11101 10=01
    (Matthias Gemuh)          00000 00100 00100 11000 00000 ##### 10001 =1011   23%  16.0 (2640.0, 306.5)

 7. BigLion80 2.23x           00000 00000 00000 00000 0=000 00010 ##### 10100
    (Matthias Gemuh)          00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 01110 ##### 11101   15%  10.5 (2695.0, 144.3)

 8. Chancellor 1.00d          00000 00000 00000 00000 00001 01=10 01011 #####
    (Matthias Gemuh)          00000 00000 00000 00100 00000 =0100 00010 #####   14%  10.0 (2700.0, 188.5)

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Derived performance ratings:

Rank Name               Elo    +    - games score oppo. draws
   1 Joker80 1.1.14e   2402  119   96    70   88%  1885    1%
   2 TJchess10x8 0.109 2224   91   86    70   74%  1911    6%
   3 Smirf 1.71d       2155   89   87    70   68%  1921    1%
   4 TSCP Gothic       2073   84   85    70   60%  1932    6%
   5 Fairy-Max 4.8 t   2050   82   83    70   58%  1936   10%
   6 ArcBishop80 1.00  1636   96  103    70   23%  1995    3%
   7 BigLion80 2.23    1541  103  117    70   15%  2008    1%
   8 Chancellor 1.00d  1519  103  117    70   14%  2012    3%

Conditions

Round robin with 10 games per pairing
time control 10'+0
Games started from 5 different positions, each played with black and white:
rnbcqkabnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNBCQKABNR w KQkq - 0 1
rnbaqkcbnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNBAQKCBNR w KQkq - 0 1
rnbqakcbnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNBQAKCBNR w KQkq - 0 1
rcbnqknbar/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RCBNQKNBAR w KQkq - 0 1
rabnqknbcr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RABNQKNBCR w KQkq - 0 1

These initial positions was set up in the engines by feeding them moves from the Gothic position (a kludge to accomodate TSCP-G). The ChessLive! viewer does not show that, 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.