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Dear Chess Friends,

Unfortunately i am sorry to announce:
-I am planning to cancel my new project ICCR

More details about why i am planning to stop working on the new ICCR project:
-I still strongly believe (in case of such list) that we will see high-quality games,played under super fast machines
-I plan to cancel this project is not due to there is no interest over it...
*For example,even in a very short time,ICCR has already 3 Testers,which are waiting instructions from me

The main reason of planning to not continue working over ICCR is that:
-There will be wrong Elo calculations,in case of using adapted time controls under different speed processors
-I mean,in case of creating a such adapted rating- all participant Elo standings will be effected...
-So far...I could not find any right solution for measuring the real Elo strength of the ICCR engines
-The biggest Elo calculation problem is appearing e.g 6c against 4c or 6c against 12c ...

*A simple example of wrong Elo calculation about in case of if we are not combing the mp engines in one version:
How can we calculate the game results played by:


-The right hardware Elo calculation (6c against 4c):should be done on two separate machines via Auto232 mode
*I mean for hardware speed test (6c against 4c):
-Engines should be tested with adapted time controls,on two separate machines via Auto232 mode
-Even if we combine ICCR played game results by Quads/Six-Cores... in one chess engine version
-Then is appearing another Elo calculation problem:as Clemens Keck stated...some buggy mp engines will be effected from that
In my opinion,combining in one chess engine version is the right way,but only for NON-buggy MP chess engines
-But in case of combining all mp participants,then it will lead to another wrong Elo calculation results

A little note more:
-For the first time in my Computerchess life, i could not complete a project with a success

And after all: I am sorry dear Chess Friends for all that i can not continue to work over this new project

But i have good news:
-I plan to start a new Rating list (15m+10s) based on only i7 Six-core machines
Note:more info coming soon...

BTW,i stopped the current hardware Elo speed test and the results are here:

Games:
http://www.sedatc...o_Test.rar

Best Wishes,
Sedat Canbaz