Tournaments Rules

INTRODUCTION:

All tournaments are my personal private tournaments, you can't watch them live. I organize them in my free time. This blog just shows the results of them.

PARTICIPANTS:

I use my own collection of chess engines downloaded from many different websites. The full list can be found in Participants secion of this blog. The name of chess engine in most cases is the name of .exe file which runs the engine. Chess engines are updated regularly, but they can't be upgraded during tournament that they are playing. They must finish tournament in the version that they started it and then can be updated to the latest version.

TYPE OF CHESS:

Bullet 1|0 - for tournaments played in Arena 3.5.1

SEASON SCHEDULE:

Stage 1: Mini Cups
for all participants (each cup for randomly chosen 32 chess engines, except the last Mini Cup of the season which is played just by the remaining chess engines from my collection. During one season, one chess engine can take part in one Mini Cup only)

Stage 2: Swiss Tournament
7 rounds Swiss tournament for chess engines that won their Mini Cup

Stage 3: Losers Cups
10 single elimination tournaments for chess engines that lost their Mini Cups matches in 1st round

Stage 4: Consolation Cups
10 single elimination tournaments for chess engines that lost their Mini Cups matches in 2nd or 3rd round

Stage 5: Season Leagues 
League 10 - for 20 chess engines that achieved 3rd or 4th place in Losers Cup
League 9 - for 20 chess engines that achieved final in Losers Cup
League 8 - for 20 chess engines that lost their quarter finals in Consolation Cups 6-10
League 7 - for 20 chess engines that lost their quarter finals in Consolation Cups 1-5
League 6 - for 20 chess engines that achieved 3rd or 4th place in Consolation Cup
League 5 - for 20 chess engines that achieved final in Consolation Cup
League 4 - for 20 chess engines that achieved 4th place in their Mini Cup
League 3 - for 20 chess engines that achieved 3rd place in their Mini Cup
League 2 - for 20 chess engines that achieved 2nd place in their Mini Cup
League 1 - for 20 chess engines that won their Mini Cup

5 best chess engines from each league advance to the higher league
5 worst chess engines from each league are relegated to lower league
5 worst chess engines from League 10 will be relegated from Season Leagues

Stage 6: Elite Cup
single elimination tournament for 8 best chess engines from League 1

Stage 7: Super Cup
single elimination tournament for 200 chess engines from all leagues

Stage 8: Super League
special league for winners of each league

Stage 8: Season Grand Final
10 rounds game between winner of Super League and winner of Super Cup (in case of the same winner in both tournaments, it will be chess engine that achieved 2nd place in Super Cup)

Additional tournaments: "New Chess Engines" Cups
at the beginning of each month there will be special single elimination tournament for chess engines that were released previous month (for example at the beginning of February, for chess engines released in January)

INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS:

in case of all knockout games: game won in first round - 1:0, in case when more rounds is needed - 1:1 for each draw (example: in case of 3 rounds game the result will be 3:2)

in case of leagues, Swiss Tournament and group stage in Super Cup: each draw 1:1, won game 2:0 

in case of Season Grand Final: each draw 0.5:0.5, won round 1:0

TECHNICAL ISSUES:

Software: Arena 3.5.1 (http://www.playwitharena.de/)
Hardware: i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.8GHz, 8192MB RAM, Windows 10 64bit

Update: 17.02.2021