Breaking News (21.09.2024): Small Size CS (up to 15 MB) is over, thanks and congratulations to all authors! SENTINEL 2409 is the latest entry...which performed on same level as Geralt!! Yes despite on thunderstorm winds, these Warriors are tireless, they have only One mission: to destroy the opponent! and they proved to be so...not once not Twice...many many times..Note also that both Top books are titled as Champs! Yes..they are with equal points, but there will be no Tie-Break match as reason: Geralt is publicly available, where SENTINEL is private..otherwise, just in case Of organizing a such Duel match... it will be not fair at all...right? You may know, via SCCT tours: I'm doing my best for more fair test conditions! Forget everything, even there are such testers, who still prefer: NN vs NON-NN (Btw, I'm one of them) but at least I say: my used engines are close in strength )) And this is not all..there are also such testers who prefer Learning EXP vs NON Learning BIN books, sad indeed...maybe more time is required to take lessons ) What is more strange..there are CTG books too, which have learning future..but Unfortunately they are staying far...really I have no much idea about why? but it Seems they are not aware of CTG + Fritz GUIs... anyhow all right on the night !) Meanwhile, Medium Size CS is started as well, wishing good luck to all players!
The Champions: Geralt / SENTINEL- Congrats to Hurnavich / Constantinesco !
Rank Name Elo + - games score oppo. draws 1 Geralt 3652 11 11 1050 55% 3620 70% 2 SENTINEL 2409 3652 11 11 1050 55% 3620 66% 3 Castigo 3649 11 11 1050 54% 3620 72% 4 Rodent Z 3646 11 11 1050 54% 3620 69% 5 Hazel Upd3 3643 11 11 1050 53% 3620 70% 6 Skynet 180724 3640 11 11 1050 53% 3620 71% 7 C-Attack 3638 11 11 1050 53% 3620 73% 8 SappHire 3637 11 11 1050 52% 3620 68% 9 CaterpillaR v1.0 3637 11 11 1050 52% 3620 70% 10 AbbyStein v2.0 3636 11 11 1050 52% 3620 72% 11 Balaklava 3632 11 11 1050 52% 3620 73% 12 HuckleBerry v11 3632 11 11 1050 52% 3620 73% 13 Pampa 3 3631 11 11 1050 51% 3620 72% 14 Book-Keeper 3630 11 11 1050 51% 3620 73% 15 OldScool 3628 11 11 1050 51% 3620 70% 16 Cevdet 2024 3625 11 11 1050 51% 3621 70% 17 Turkey 2024 3623 11 11 1050 50% 3621 73% 18 Flavo R5 3621 11 11 1050 50% 3621 70% 19 Oran 3621 11 11 1050 50% 3621 72% 20 GM Champs 3618 11 11 1050 50% 3621 70% 21 Africaata 290224 3617 11 11 1050 49% 3621 70% 22 Balsa 3700 3616 11 11 1050 49% 3621 70% 23 Balsa 3800 3615 11 11 1050 49% 3621 68% 24 Yoruba 230824 3613 11 11 1050 49% 3621 66% 25 Best 260824 3613 11 11 1050 49% 3621 70% 26 SCCT + BS 3608 12 12 1050 48% 3621 57% 27 Unique3800 + KV 3608 12 12 1050 48% 3621 58% 28 SSDF/CEDR 3606 11 11 1050 48% 3621 70% 29 Balsa3600 + Eman 3606 11 11 1050 48% 3621 70% 30 TestBook + Slow 3599 11 11 1050 47% 3621 68% 31 CCRL+ ES 3597 11 11 1050 47% 3621 61% 32 FGRL/FCP 3595 11 11 1050 46% 3621 66% 33 Unique3700 + SF 3594 11 11 1050 46% 3621 67% 34 TCEC/SPCC 3594 11 11 1050 46% 3621 68% 35 SCCT 20/23 + BF 3591 11 11 1050 45% 3622 67% 36 CEGT + Slow 3579 11 11 1050 44% 3622 64%
• Calculated by Bayeselo / Balsa 3800 is fixed to 3615 // Blue Name = Last Entry
More Details (when the tour was active): • Mostly of opening books are played by 9-times Champion: Cfish 030820 C40 Exc. some (non-hand tuned) via other Top engines (close in strength to Cfish..) Such as CCRL, CEGT, SCCT etc, reason: to stress the latest TREND books! And via this test system: it's much more clear about strongest ones in overall.. Note also that all of participated books are based / belonging this year (2024)• In this new championship: BIN books allowed (Private plus Public books too)• In case of interest to submit BIN book/s: registrations are acceptable Contact• By unknown required minimum: 100 games (played on Playchess, Lichess..) This rule can be called as VISA, it's simply against cheating, for more Details• As bonus. frequent authors are free to submit several new opening books but To be more clear, each other... have to be 'different' in opening/playing styles And once more, max. size limit rule: Up to 15 MB (uncompressed) is allowed• Main Settings (for all Participants): Book Depth:100 / Best Move as Disabled Exc. some of the book entries are participated by Authors suggested settings• Current Overall draw ratio (based on 18900 games) 69% in short: just great! And to be honest, I can not remember similar low draw values by Top 3600+ Where the lowest draw records are belonging to my work: SCCT + BS with 57%, moreover plus Unique3800+ KV book has very low draw-ratio too 58%• Any Book Leader (after 1000 games per player..) will be titled as Champion!• As usual, all the played games will be available after the end of tournament Exc. in active tours.. only authors (via request) can get theirs played games• For more detailed information about current competition: OpenChess + Goi35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 LXVIII LXVII 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 LXVI 17