Bin book tournament
📣 Official Announcement: IJCCRL Bin Book Tournament – First Edition
We are pleased to announce the IJCCRL Bin Book Tournament, a specialised event dedicated to opening books in .bin format, played under the high-speed and demanding format of Bullet 60+2 (60 seconds plus 2-second increment per move).
🧠 Engine: Cool Iris v17 SSE3
🎮 GUI: Fritz 19
🕛 Tournament Start: 00:00 AM (Madrid/Lisbon time) on Monday, 12 May
📆 Registration Deadline: Sunday, 11 May
Each bin book will compete in 500 games, after which the leading book will be declared winner of this inaugural edition. Rankings will be calculated using BayesElo, ensuring accurate and fair assessment.
📺 All games will be broadcast live every night on our official YouTube channel, aligned with the Madrid/Lisbon time zone.
⚙️ Technical Specifications:
- Hardware: HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8
- CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2, 24 cores / 48 threads
- RAM: 256 GB DDR3
- Drives: 2 SATA III SSDs
- Hash Size: 512 MB
- Cores Assigned: 4
- Endgame Tablebases: Complete six-piece set
📦 Submission Guidelines:
- Only .7z compressed format will be accepted
- Maximum file size (compressed): 500 MB
- WinRAR and WinZIP formats will not be accepted
- Please send your opening books to the following email addresses:
✉️ info@ijccrl.com
✉️ jordiruizcentelles@gmail.com
We warmly invite all bin book creators and enthusiasts to take part in this celebration of precision, theory, and lightning-fast strategy. Submit your book, rise through the rankings, and make your mark in the first edition of the IJCCRL Bin Book Tournament.