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Permanent brain: The engines are allowed to think on the opponent's time. This
means each participant will use 50% of the processing power during the entire game.
Book learning: The openings books that are being used are modified and improved
in light of the games that are played. This means that the engines will start avoiding
lines that went badly for them, and try to force ones in which they scored well.
Round robin: In this tournament type, each player must play against all other
participants (“cycles” determines how many times).
Run the gauntlet: This allows engines to be included into a running tournament.
They will play against all other engines (which have already played against each
other), and will do so as often as specified in “cycles”.
Knockout: Players are eliminated in matches against each other; the winner goes
on to the next round.
Swiss: The engines play n rounds (determined by "cycles") against each other,
where n is less than the number of opponents in the tournament. In the Swiss system
the opponents are chosen according to their running scores, that is, those with
approximately equal scores are paired against each other.
Run/Continue: If you need to use your computer during a tournament you can
interrupt it and resume later. Click “File” – “Open” – “Tournament”, select the
tournament in the file selector and click the “Run/Continue” button in the tournament
dialog box.
Next human game: If you are participating in the tournament, click this when
you are ready to play your games. You can also do so in the menu “Game” –
“Tournament” – “Next human game”.

Tournament database
The program saves all engine tournaments automatically in a tournament database.
You will find this in the directory c:\My documents\ChessBase\CompBase\EngTourn,
unless specified otherwise during the installation of the program.
The tournament database is always shown in the history list of the database window.

3.8.13 Publish tournament on the Internet
Publish - T ourna m e nt dia log
With this function you can stage entire tournaments with many participants, human
and computer, fully automatic. These tournaments can be published live on the
Internet. The program will update the web pages automatically at regular intervals. It
will even include a Java script diagram of the current game, so that visitors can play
through it on their browsers.
When you start or resume a tournament, click the “Publish” button to get the following
dialog box:

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