Last Update: 19.12.2024
Hello Dear Friends,
As usually, I am very pleased to announce that,Another CS (in handicapped mode) organized!In short, it's similar as recent organized: CS 3Meanwhile (for anyone missed) for older tours:CS 2  /  CS 1  /  2019  /  2018  /  2011
UPDATE 4Via final update. 31 chess engines are entered! actually (in overall stats)In latest 2 days.. I've managed to test 87 engines and hope you like it ?)Yes..via this update too..Top 3 ranks are as before..really impressive !!But I admit also that via latest eng entries, Now the ranking includes more strong engines e.g CatroPOLY, SF FS ...Also now is more clear that the older SF Evalfiles are stronger than latestNew ones...at least it seems so if running tests under handicapped cond.Anyhow, Kayra is Kayra..if we'll talk about which is strongest of SF ones..Because via same net...(that Kayra used) a lot of other ones played too!!I wonder also: What is Top secret that contains in Mr. Mehmet's engine?!Sure as same words are going for the Winner: Clover/PlentyChess too!!Ok friends that's all for now..congrats and many thanks to all eng authors!
UPDATE 3Via this update, a lot of chess engines are entered, mostly of them SF-Family ones..many of engines are performed below than expected butSome really managed to archive, to succeed as 'unbelievable' records!
Meanwhile,Current Top 3 ranks: 1st: Clover, 2nd: Kayra, 3rd: PlentyChess! plusVery good performance comes by RapTora, Raubfish SC, Zeus... and No doubt too that these great engines have 'brilliancy' with piece odds! As 'real' genius Paul Morphy, who was a true Legend in piece odds too!No any other explanation about their extremely powerful moves, right?
Btw, now again I remembered the days, when Kayra engine was released:How Kayra is underestimated, even Kayra's played games were prohibited..But all these bad actions are happened on Outskirts papers/during: ResultsBut on 'reality' the situation is different and as usual: 'best' ones are on Top!
Actually everyone has a target: to get better, to be succeed, right?But not so many people have the courage/talent to go through with it.. And what a ptty: these clever guys prefer the easiest way: 'attacks'But via cheap papers, if not so clear: What about on 'real' Arena ??Yes on real Arena..they are really invisible or losers.. one thing more:Why I was on Playchess server (during Engine Room 2008 / 2009)?:Because on those old times, my tournaments, opening books, work etc.Much underestimated..Btw, forget everything: What we noticed in 2024?Only ones which belonging to 2015-2017 are performed better than P16!Btw, right now imagine...if I'll start to work over a new Perfect 17 book ?)
Continuing...
Actually this is not as 1st... unfortunately we will see attacks, jealous to ourFree work...Exception to stop them (for a solution): we've to stop work too!Yes people who are knowledgeable, skilled and successful in their jobs areOften envied, criticized and made difficult to do their jobs...sad, but true!
Btw, let Me add also please, someone once said:“The tree that bears fruit, unfortunately will be stoned”“If nobody hates you, you are doing something wrong”
     HC CS IV's Champion  Clover 8.1 - My Congratulations to Luca Metehau!     Note: Exactly same Clover ver. is the Champion of recent Blitz+Rapid too: CS III
Rank Name                 Elo    +    -  games score oppo. draws    1 Clover 8.1           2906   30   29   450   60%  2833   18%    2 Kayra 1.7            2897   29   29   450   59%  2833   20%    3 PlentyChess 3.0.1    2892   30   30   450   58%  2833   16%    4 CatroPOLY 310723     2891   30   29   450   58%  2833   16%    5 SF FS 050423         2889   30   29   450   58%  2833   18%    6 RapTora 3.0          2887   30   29   450   58%  2833   16%    7 Raubfisch SC         2886   30   30   450   58%  2833   16%    8 SF PB 170922         2881   29   29   450   57%  2833   19%    9 Swordfish 15.5       2880   30   29   450   57%  2833   17%   10 XTD 010723           2879   29   29   450   57%  2833   18%   11 Zeus 26.5            2878   29   29   450   56%  2833   17%   12 AWOL Z11             2877   30   29   450   56%  2833   16%   13 Nebula Vortex        2872   30   30   450   55%  2833   14%   14 Fruit R._2.1         2871   14   14  2160   56%  2824   15%   15 ProteusSF Aureo      2870   29   29   450   55%  2833   18%   16 Yuliirma 2.1         2870   30   30   450   55%  2833   12%   17 SolistaAttack v2     2870   30   30   450   55%  2833   14%   18 SpecTral 1.0         2867   30   29   450   55%  2833   15%   19 AI 28.0              2865   30   30   450   54%  2833   14%   20 SF POLY 220723       2864   30   29   450   54%  2833   15%   21 SF Polyglot 15.1     2863   30   29   450   54%  2833   16%   22 Tactical 111223      2862   30   30   450   54%  2833   14%   23 Honey 14.1.01        2861   29   29   450   54%  2833   16%   24 SFS 100224           2861   29   29   450   54%  2833   18%   25 FatFritz 2           2861   29   29   450   54%  2833   18%   26 Seer v2.8            2859   29   29   450   54%  2833   18%   27 Steel Fighter 3      2856   30   30   450   53%  2833   14%   28 Hiarcs_11            2856   14   14  2160   55%  2824   16%   29 Obsidian 14.13       2856   29   29   450   53%  2833   18%   30 Doch_09.980          2854   14   14  2160   54%  2824   16%   31 Sun Light 3          2853   29   29   450   53%  2833   18%   32 Genko 1.1            2851   30   30   450   52%  2833   15%   33 Zappa_Mexico         2850   14   14  2160   54%  2824   20%   34 Stockfish 220823 sl  2850   29   29   450   52%  2833   16%   35 Vajolet2_1.45        2849   14   14  2160   53%  2824   14%   36 YuliGM PrO 5.0       2849   29   29   450   52%  2833   17%   37 Octochess_55         2845   14   14  2160   53%  2824   15%   38 Shredder_10          2844   14   14  2160   53%  2824   14%   39 FisherovMonk 1.2     2843   30   30   450   51%  2833   14%   40 Arasan_17.5          2840   14   14  2160   52%  2824   15%   41 Rems 011224          2839   30   30   450   51%  2833   15%   42 Gaviota_0.86         2838   14   14  2160   52%  2824   15%   43 SF SCCT 250122       2836   30   30   450   51%  2833   15%   44 Incognito 8.2        2835   29   29   450   50%  2833   17%   45 BlueMarlin 15.7      2831   29   29   450   50%  2833   16%   46 Kookaburra 3         2830   30   30   450   50%  2833   14%   47 Hannibal_1.0a        2830   14   14  2160   51%  2824   15%   48 Ditto 130221         2828   29   29   450   49%  2833   18%   49 Texel_1.02           2812   14   14  2160   48%  2824   12%   50 OliThink_5.9.2       2811   14   14  2160   48%  2824   14%   51 Sawfish 1.0          2811   30   30   450   47%  2833   13%   52 Glaurung_2008        2811   14   14  2160   48%  2824   13%   53 Fat Titz 2           2811   30   30   450   47%  2833   13%   54 DeepBlue 180524      2809   29   29   450   46%  2833   17%   55 Cool Iris 13.97      2808   30   30   450   46%  2833   14%   56 Eman 9.90            2808   30   30   450   46%  2833   13%   57 Stockfish 17         2807   30   30   450   46%  2833   10%   58 SF PRO 201024        2804   30   30   450   46%  2833   13%   59 Cfish 030820         2803   29   29   450   45%  2833   22%   60 Dark SisTer 8        2801   30   30   450   46%  2833   12%   61 BigBallz 010922      2800   30   30   450   45%  2833   14%   62 asmFish 9            2800   28   28   450   45%  2833   27%   63 Redfish 240122       2797   30   30   450   45%  2833   14%   64 Deuterium_4.3        2796   14   14  2160   46%  2824   15%   65 Crystal 8            2795   30   30   450   45%  2833   14%   66 Booot_5.1.0          2794   14   14  2160   46%  2824   12%   67 Brainlearn 30        2792   30   30   450   44%  2833   14%   68 Cfish 120821         2792   30   30   450   44%  2833   14%   69 Corchess 221124      2791   30   30   450   44%  2833   10%   70 Polyfish 140124      2791   30   30   450   44%  2833   12%   71 Raid 36 TR           2786   30   30   450   43%  2833   14%   72 Tetra 2.1            2784   30   30   450   43%  2833   15%   73 SF Ivec 221124       2782   30   30   450   43%  2833   11%   74 Marauders 4          2778   30   30   450   42%  2833   11%   75 K.Dragon 3.3         2777   30   30   450   42%  2833   14%   76 SFNNv6 16.1          2777   30   30   450   42%  2833   13%   77 JigSaw 6.0           2775   30   31   450   42%  2833   11%   78 ShashChess 37        2772   30   30   450   42%  2833   13%   79 Killfish 021224      2757   30   31   450   40%  2833   11%   80 SF PB 131124         2755   30   31   450   39%  2833   10%   81 Houdini 6.03         2748   30   30   450   38%  2833   18%   82 Sailfish 4.0         2745   31   31   450   38%  2833    9%   83 Solidor 180924       2741   31   31   450   38%  2833    8%   84 Fidelio 17 MPV       2738   30   31   450   37%  2833   12%   85 MagicKnight          2737   30   31   450   37%  2833   12%   86 Alexander S.         2737   30   30   450   36%  2833   17%   87 C Dragon v3          2698   32   33   450   32%  2833    7% 
    • Constant engines (in non-handicapped mode) are named as: _ moreover,       They contain 2160 games, where the engines in handicapped mode: 450
    More Details:   • All engines are used to play via CuteChess GUI's concurrent games: 72   • For better / stable performance, Hyper Threading+Large Pages disabled    • All (which capable to learn) played via Learning OFF (for more fair cond)   • As usual, all of NNUE engines are participated via theirs default Evalfiles     Plus each engine's move overhead is played via 100 (against time loses)      Btw, only Booot 5.1.0 lost 5 games (on time), but rest it seems all stable!!   • Classical entries (NON-NNUE): Alexander S. asmFish, Cfish and Houdini   • Almost all tested chess engines are 64 bit (AVX2 is used where available)    • So far overall draw percentage (based on 32400 games) is very low: 14%   • Current used handicapped suite plus games are available too: Download   • For more detailed information regarding the competition OpenChess forum