RULES: Blitz Tournament
Site: The Free Internet Chess Server (FICS)
Tournament Director: Peter Skinner (Iwonone on FICS)
Date: 2011
Registration Deadlines: 2011
Time controls: 5 + 3
Rounds: 9 Round Swiss.
Round Times: All games to be played after the Main Tournament
In the event of a tie situation, all participants tied,
will face off in a playoff. (Format to be determined)
Registration:
1. FICS has agreed to facilitate computer
accounts for the CCT tournament. Authors should sign up a human account
first, then contact the Tournament Director with their desired engine
account name to register their program account. The Tournament Director
will then get the account registered, and an email will be dispatched to
the participating author with their account password. This usually will
take no longer than 24 hours. (Registration form will handle the above
if properly filled out)
1a. It is preferred that your computer
account name be the same as your engine name. If this is not possible,
please contact the Tournament Director.
2. Only the original
author, Operator or a team member of the original program may enter and
operate. The definition of a team member is as follows:
An
individual who has internal knowledge of the program and is recognized
by the author as a member of the development team.. i.e. Developer, book
maker. This person must have advanced knowledge of the program, such as
how the program is designed, hashing schemes, book making procedures..
2a. Operators will only be allowed under the following conditions:
i. The author must
be online during the tournament to participate in discussions in channel
64, and in the event there is an issue with their program they can
provide real time support to their operator.
ii. The operator must
use the account that the author has signed up. No exceptions will be
made.
iii. No operator can operate more than one program. No
exceptions will be made.
iv. In the event the author can not attend
the event, but has a reliable operator, the Tournament Director may
allow the program to participate.
*** This rule was added under
the premise that we would rather have the program participate than not
at all. There was sufficient support prior to CCT12 for the inclusion of
this rule. ***
3. Book authors will be required to enter with
only one team. Two teams (entrants) will not be able to use the same
book author. Books can be as unique as a chess program, thus should
follow the same rules as one program per author.
4. To enter, you
need to be an established author. This means that a program of yours
must have a track record in some public environment such as previous
official tournaments participation. If your program has not competed in
a previous CCT tournament, or in live events like the WCCC, IPCCC,
Leiden, then you must take one of the steps below before registration
will be accepted.
4a. Ways to establish yourself as a recognized
author are:
i. If Private, your engine should have an history of
official tournament participation (WCCC, ACCA, CCT, Chesswar, Paderborn
etc)
ii. If private, send the engine to the testing team to get their
approval or release of the engine to the public.
iii. Send your
engine to be tested with the CCRL.
**All new engine authors undergo
this screening test, so this is normal.
Clone/Derivatives Rules
1. Each participant (engine) must be an
original work. No entry can contain code from another program, or be a
"clone" of another program. This includes any "personality" settings of
an originating program. This includes opening books.
2. Any
engine that is found to be "clone" of another program or close to it
(e.g. engine output, pondering information, analysis of positions) will
be declared void by the Tournament Director after seeking advice from
notable sources. The notable sources will be individuals that have no
active standing in other projects, and are respected within the computer
chess community.
3. The Tournament Director can ask for the
compiled executable and corresponding source to the participating
version of an engine to let it be examined by the previous mentioned
notable sources. If the author of the engine that is suspect were to
refuse to confirm the originality of his own work, the engine and the
author will be disqualified from the CCT, and will no longer be able to
participate in future events.
Rules:
1. Registration will
be limited to one entry per author. The registrant engine must also have
a verifiable author. If an author has two programs, they must choose
which one to enter. This is now extended to book authors, which must
decide to enter with one team only. There will be no exceptions.
2. No manually operated programs, and all programs must kibitz their
evaluation, and book moves/TB hits if possible. Providing as much
information as possible for the viewers and participants is key. It
should also be noted that 1-3 lines of text is sufficient. Whispering is
not the same as kibitzing, as the opponent can not see your evaluation.
If your program is found to be whispering instead of kibitzing, you will
be asked to correct the issue. For this reason, you may need to
disconnect and return. One disconnection towards rule 5 will be counted,
whether you need to disconnect or not.
3. Participants can use
any hardware they can attain. Participants choosing to use remotely
located hardware are recommended to have a suitable back up solution in
the event of an uncorrectable malfunction.
4. In the event that
there is a late withdrawal or uneven amounts of players, the TD can
substitute a program in place of the departing entrant to keep the
numbered entries the same. And to avoid a bye round.
5. In the
event that the wrong colors are played, the programs will have 5 minutes
to make the correction, or the program that issued the match request
will forfeit the game.
Disconnection/Forfeit Rules
1.
In the event of a disconnection, the party will be given 10 minutes to
return to complete the game; and no more than 2 disconnections per game
will be allowed. On the third time, the game will be a forfeit. This is
absolute.
1a. The Tournament Director will keep track of
disconnections, and responsibility is his alone to enforce this rule.
The opponent will not have the ability to choose to continue or to claim
the win. The Tournament Director's decision will be final.
2. In
the event that a program can not continue a game due to interface or
program issues, it will forfeit the game. Under no circumstances will a
new game be formed or the game restarted.
3. If a program is not
open for matches or arrives late for a scheduled round, after 20 minutes
the game will be considered a forfeit. This is to eliminate one game
holding up the tournament.
Seeding Criteria
1.
Seeding will be based on the FICS Standard rating, as there is no way of
manually seeding.