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Blitz: The tournament is carried out with blitz games.
Long game: The tournament is carried out with games that use classical time
controls.
Permanent Brain: Use opponent’s time: The engines are allowed to think while it is
the opponent’s turn. This uses 50% of the processor time.

Dialog Tournament Type

Cycles: This specifies how many games each player should play against each
opponent. This is the number of rounds in the Swiss system.
Round robin: Every engine plays as many games against each opponent as are
specified by the cycles.
Run the gauntlet: The first engine in the list plays as many games against each
opponent as are specified by the cycles. This is useful for testing individual engines.
Knockout: Engines play against each other in pairs. The winner advances to the
next round.
Swiss System: In each round engines with approximately the same point score play
against one another. After a few rounds the strongest engines are playing one
another and the weakest engines are playing against one another. As many rounds
are played as there are cycles.

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