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Group B has finished a complete thirty seconds-per-move tournament in Chess for Android , played from both sides of all positions in the Nunn opening suite under the conditions described earlier. Regrettably I found that Crafty was put at a slight disadvantage (not something that would have changed the outcome though) due to a misinterpretation of XBoard's resign plus move command, causing a resign by illegal move in the next game. This issue has been fixed now. Congratulations to IvanHoe for its promotion to Group A. All games can be downloaded from the tournament page . The games of the final group A have started!                        1        2        3         4        5                     1 IvanHoe-Beta 999947c    *     15.0-5.0 17.0-3.0  19.0-1.0 19.0-1.0 70.0/80 2 scorpio              5.0-15.0     *     7.5-12.5 17.5-2.5 14.5-5.5 44.5/80  3 Toga II 1.4.1SE      3.0-17.0 12.5-7.5     *     12.0-8.0 13.0-7.0 40.5/80  4 crafty               1.0-19.0  2.5-17.5 8

Jim Ablett very kindly posted an Android Chess Engine Bundle with various UCI and XBoard engines that can be imported in Chess for Android . UCI: daydreamer-175-ja  greko-82-ja    redqueen-098-ja  stockfish-211-ja diablo-051b-ja     jazz-501-ja    rotor-04-ja      sungorus-14-ja doublecheck-21-ja  komodo-13-ja   simplex-098-ja garbochess-3-ja    pepito-159-ja  sissa-20-ja XBOARD: uzz-os-11-27-08          kmtchess-121-ja   scidlet-361-b2-ja chess-one-201-ja         knightcap-36-ja   sjeng-112-ja crafty-234-ja            mizar-030-ja      sloppy-023-ja exchess-054-beta-ja      mskcp-145-ja      surprise-43-beta13-ja gfc-08-rev5-ja           natwarlal-014-ja  toledo-nanochess-2010-ja gk-090-ja                olithink-530-ja   zzzzzz-351-ja gullydeckel-215-pl10-ja  phalanx-xxii-ja

Group C has just finished a complete thirty seconds-per-move tournament in Chess for Android , played from both sides of all positions in the Nunn opening suite under the conditions described earlier. Congratulations to Gary Linscott for GarboChess' promotion to Group B. All games can be downloaded from the tournament page .                            1        2         3         4        5                     1 GarboChess3                 *     10.5-9.5   9.5-10.5 15.0-5.0 16.0-4.0  51.0/80 2 Daydreamer 1.75 JA        9.5-10.5    *     12.0-8.0  14.5-5.5 13.0-7.0  49.0/80 3 GNU Chess 5.07.153.3b-32 10.5-9.5  8.0-12.0     *     11.0-9.0 16.0-4.0  45.5/80 4 Pepito v1.59              5.0-15.0 5.5-14.5  9.0-11.0     *     9.0-11.0 28.5/80 5 Rotor 0.6a                4.0-16.0 7.0-13.0  4.0-16.0 11.0-9.0     *     26.0/80

After many more cycles on my Nexus One, Group D has just finished a complete thirty seconds-per-move tournament in Chess for Android , played from both sides of all positions in the Nunn opening suite under the conditions described earlier. Quite a shuffle-up in the results this time compared to the qualification tournament. Congratulations to Aaron Becker for Daydreamer's promotion to Group C. All games can be downloaded from the tournament page .                       1        2         3         4        5 1 Daydreamer 1.75 JA     *     12.0-8.0  11.0-9.0  14.5-5.5 16.0-4.0  53.5/80 2 sloppy              8.0-12.0     *     14.0-6.0  10.5-9.5 16.0-4.0  48.5/80 3 RedQueen 0.9.8 JA   9.0-11.0  6.0-14.0     *     11.5-8.5 14.0-6.0  40.5/80 4 gaviota v0.84       5.5-14.5  9.5-10.5  8.5-11.5     *    15.0-5.0  38.5/80 5 Diablo 0.5.1b JA    4.0-16.0  4.0-16.0  6.0-14.0  5.0-15.0    *     19.0/80

The Micro-KIM arrived today! I did some initial experimentation with my 6502 cross-assembler and was happy that the paper tape format l recently added could be uploaded to the device without any problems. What better first program to write than "HELLO WORLD" (except only HELLO fits on the display)? It was fun figuring out how to control the display using low level 6502 programming.