Bullet Tournament on New PC
I ran a bullet chess tournament on my new PC, organized into four divisions of 12 chess engines of similar strength. Within each division, the engines played a round-robin tournament of 100 games against each engine (50 rounds, play each opening twice). In addition to these four round-robin tournaments, I ran three cross-divisional tournaments (1-2, 2-3, 3-4), pitting the three weakest engines from the higher division against the three strongest engines from the lower division. The cross-divisional tournaments are necessary to eliminate isolated engine groups and enable Ordo to converge on estimated ratings. MadChess 2.2 is rated 2439 at bullet… Continue Reading