In Poland, in the town Kórnik will be held from 01.09.2020 to 13.09.2020 tournament " The Unofficial World Championships Of Computer Programs In International Draughts Blitz 2020 ". The tournament will be played on the system "round - robin" consisting of twenty six rounds, about the place in the tournament to decide the score Sonneborn - Berger, time for a game 5 minutes + 6 second for 85 moves - all programs are set to 5 minutes for 85 moves, an additional 6 seconds was added to make movements on the DGT Draughts E-Board. During the tournament I will use the program DraughtsArbiter Pro. The tournament is played on two identical computers with the following hardware parameters:
- processor - AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 3.4GHz
- hard drive - Samsung 860 Pro SSD 1 TB
- memory ram - Kingston HyperX Fury 128 GB DDR4 2400MHz CL15
- monitor - Nec MultiSync EA245WMi
- keyboard - Genesis Thor 200 RGB
- mouse - Razer DeathAdder Essential
- operating system - Microsoft Windows 10 Professional 64 bit PL
In tournament will be attended by the following programs.
- Aurora Borealis Professional - Alexander Svirin - Russia
- Cerberus - Leo Nagels - Netherlands
- Damage - Bert Tuyt - Netherlands
- Dragon - Michel Grimminck - Netherlands
- Dream - Saïd Koudache - France
- Edeon Sport - Alexey Odnoklubov, Vasily Naumik, Victor Naumik - Belarus
- Flits - Adri Vermeulen - Netherlands
- Kingsrow - Edgar Gilbert - United States of America
- Moby Dam - Harm Jetten - Netherlands
- Plus 500 - Serge Startsev - Russia
- Scan - Fabien Letouzey - France
- Sjende Blyn - Jelle Wiersma - Netherlands
- Tornado - Frank Mesander - Netherlands
- Truus voor Windows - Stef Keetman - Netherlands
A huge and heartfelt thank you to Hendrik Veenstra.
Special thanks
Adam Curyło
Special thanks for programmers
Edgar Gilbert, Jelle Wiersma, Bert Tuyt, Michel Grimminck, Vasily Naumik, Alexey Odnoklubov, Victor Naumik, Harm Jetten,
Gerard Taille, Frank Mesander, Ton Tillemans, Adri Vermeulen, Fabien Letouzey, Stef Keetman, Jan-Jaap van Horssen, Klaas Bor, Alexander
Svirin, Leo Nagels, Serge Startsev, Saïd Koudache, Gijsbert Wiesenekker, Alexander Presman, Maurits Meijer, Chris Jurriëns, Rein Halbersma, and other programmers I have not mentioned.