In the cold winter with not much sports going on, I've decided to conduct a chess computer tournament. In the hope that it will be more useful to the Schachcomputer community, I decided the time control to be Game in 30 minutes so it should be a good fit for the Aktiv Liste. There are 8 computers playing a double round robin, for a total of 56 games. Unfortunately, the tourney is heavy on Mephisto/Novag models since the only Fidelity models I have are too far below the top entries in strength (Elite A/S & Excellence 3 MHz). I also wanted to stick to most of the entrants being already on the Aktiv Liste so the results might be more relevant.

Anyway, here are the tournament entries, their number of games on current Aktiv Liste, and their ELO on the same list:

Novag Emerald Classic (not the Classic Plus) ----
Saitek GK 2000 75 1887
Novag Sapphire 109 2176
Mephitso Lyon 68000 Not listed ----
Novag Star Diamond 86 2154
Mephisto Polgar 69 1982
Mephisto Atlanta 181 2232
Mephisto Berlin Pro 73 2264

I will post the first round results soon under this same thread. Any comments, let me know, I will consider changes that benefit the Schachcomputer forum.


Lets get it on!

Chuck