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Group C in the ongoing 2013 chess tournament between UCI and XBoard engines for Android just completed a five seconds-per-move tournament played from both sides of all positions in the Silversuite gambit opening suite. Congratulations to Toga II for its promotion to Group B. Games available at the tournament site .                                                  1 Toga II 1.4.1SE *         30.0-20.0 33.5-16.5 36.0-14.0 37.5-12.5 137.0/200 => B 2 Arasan 15.2 JA  20.0-30.0 *         27.0-23.0 27.5-22.5 35.0-15.0 109.5/200 3 Texel 1.01      16.5-33.5 23.0-27.0 *         29.5-20.5 35.0-15.0 104.0/200 4 crafty-235      14.0-36.0 22.5-27.5 20.5-29.5 *         30.0-20.0  87.0/200 5 Rotor 0.8       12.5-37.5 15.0-35.0 15.0-35.0 20.0-30.0 *          62.5/200

Group D in the ongoing 2013 chess tournament between UCI and XBoard engines for Android just completed a five seconds-per-move tournament played from both sides of all positions in the Silversuite gambit opening suite . Congratulations to Crafty its promotion to Group C. Games available at the tournament site .                                                  1 crafty-235      *         31.0-19.0 34.5-15.5 31.5-18.5 37.5-12.5 134.5/200 = > C 2 cheng3 1.07 JA  19.0-31.0 *         25.0-25.0 30.5-19.5 33.0-17.0 107.5/200 3 Daydreamer 1.75 15.5-34.5 25.0-25.0 *         26.5-23.5 30.0-20.0  97.0/200 4 scorpio-27-ja   18.5-31.5 19.5-30.5 23.5-26.5 *         29.0-21.0  90.5/200 5 GarboChess 3    12.5-37.5 17.0-33.0 20.0-30.0 21.0-29.0 *          70.5/200

Group E in my 2013 chess tournament between UCI and XBoard engines for Android just completed a five seconds-per-move tournament played from both sides of all positions in the Silversuite gambit opening suite . Congratulations to Garbochess 3 for its promotion to Group D. Games available at the tournament site .                      1 GarboChess     *         26.5-23.5 32.5-17.5 32.5-17.5 33.5-16.5 125.0/200 => D 2 sloppy-023-ja  23.5-26.5 *         25.0-25.0 31.0-19.0 23.0-27.0 102.5/200 3 danasah-488-ja 17.5-32.5 25.0-25.0 *         23.0-27.0 29.5-20.5  95.0/200 4 tucano104-ab   17.5-32.5 19.0-31.0 27.0-23.0 *         25.5-24.5  89.0/200 5 betsabe-II-130 16.5-33.5 27.0-23.0 20.5-29.5 24.5-25.5 *          88.5/200

The test and qualification rounds of my 2013 chess tournament between UCI and XBoard engines for Android are over and the group tournaments have started. Group F just completed a five seconds-per-move tournament in Group F played from both sides of all positions in the Silversuite gambit opening suite . Congratulations to betsabe-II-130-android-ja for its promotion to Group E. Games available at the tournament site . 1 betsabe-II-130     *         26.0-24.0 31.0-19.0 36.0-14.0 37.5-12.5 130.5/200 => E 2 phalanx-xxii-ja    24.0-26.0 *         21.5-28.5 33.5-16.5 37.0-13.0 116.0/200 3 typhoon-android-ja 19.0-31.0 28.5-21.5 *         28.0-22.0 35.0-15.0 110.5/200 4 TJchess 1.01U      14.0-36.0 16.5-33.5 22.0-28.0 *         27.0-23.0  79.5/200 5 kmtchess-121-ja    12.5-37.5 13.0-37.0 15.0-35.0 23.0-27.0 *          63.5/200

I have completed the initial tests for the 2013 tournament between engines for Android (compiled for ARMv5TE) using Chess for Android on a Nexus 7 (1.3 GHz quad-core Cortex-A9). The qualified and disqualified engines are shown below.  Next to follow is a qualification tournament which will place the top 25 engines in six groups, like I did in the 2011 tournament . However, I will wait a few days to see whether engine authors want to appeal the disqualification with an improved binary. Updates of qualified engines are of course also welcome. Qualified: AdroitChess 0.3      Arasan 14.0.1 betsabe-II-130-android-ja BikJump v2.1P (32-bit) cheng3 1.07 JA crafty-235-android-ja Critter 1.6a 32-bit danasah-488-ja Daydreamer 1.75 JA Diablo 0.5.1       DiscoCheck 4.0.1   exchess-054-beta-ja fairymax48l-ab    GarboChess 3 (32-bit) Gaviota v0.86     gk-090-ja    GNU Chess 6.0.2 greko98-ab    Jazz 6.40 JA kmtchess-121-ja  myrddin0.85j      natwarlal-014-ja      olithink-531-ja Pepito v1.