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