Breaking News - 06.01.2025: Just another new tour organized..where this time the Winner: Stockfish, yes, it's a      Mother of many engines, fully deserves to be on Top, congrats and well-done to all       On other hand, in almost all of the tournament duration's time, I expected Kayra to            Be the current Champion..since was as Leader, with highest gained points..but till       To the moment of latest strongest entry (Stockfish) but however Kayra is oldest e.g      Released in 2022, you may know..time is everything to become better / stronger !!      Sure I admit too..if your newest NNUE data contains on weaker moves then not 3       Years older one, but much older versions (in years)... may gain more points easily!      Btw, I switched to other constant weaker engines, due to Blitz + MP+ Ponder ON:      I noticed serious influences (in favor for constants of 3300+) so later, after running      Some tests (Blitz, MP, Ponder ON, 10.000+ beta games) about determining which       Constant engines are suitable for these cond and only after that I realized to start       Running the official championship and just a few examples: Gull 3 suffered here or      Fritz 16 performed better than expected, plus I may count more..but unfortunately       No much fee time for all...but there is one true: you will never know...until you try!      About PlentyChess: it seems to be a buggy one, if Blitz+ Ponder ON.. e.g I saw      Time management problem such as half of time control is not used properly, very      Likely Ponder ON issue is played as negative role...that's why, I preferred the tour       To be played under safer cond. (Blitz, 1 Core and Ponder OFF)  Ok chess friends..      That's all for now exc. there will be a new Rapid tour, where as players will be only      Current Top 3 engines (Kayra, PlentyChess and Stockfish) and wishing good luck! And here are general stats (based on 2520 games) White Wins: 45%, Black Wins:  36% Draw Ratio 19%, as we see here again: no strange or unusual stats numbers.. But I can't say same words for all other suites, which are created by other authors! Meanwhile, for more detailed info about current competition on: OpenChess forum
      HC CS VII's Blitz Champion Stockfish - Congratulations to Stockfish team!     Note: Exactly the same Stockfish 240223 vers. is the Champion of:  CS XXVII Rank Name                Elo   +    -  games score oppo. draws    1 Stockfish 240223   3211   28   28   420   56%  3174   23%    2 Kayra 1.7          3200   28   28   420   54%  3174   18%    3 PlentyChess 3.0.1  3196   29   28   420   53%  3174   17%    4 RapTora 2.2        3187   28   28   420   52%  3174   17%    5 Kookaburra 1.03a   3175   28   28   420   50%  3174   20%    6 Polyfish 260423    3173   28   28   420   50%  3174   20% 
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Rank Name                Elo    +    - games score oppo. draws    1 Critter 1.4        3248   37   36   252   58%  3190   19%    2 Andscacs 091       3210   36   36   252   53%  3190   20%    3 Arasan 21.1        3188   35   35   252   50%  3190   25%    4 Laser 1.6          3175   36   36   252   48%  3190   20%   5 Elektro 2.0        3166   37   37   252   46%  3190   15%    6 IvanHoe 270813     3162   38   38   252   46%  3190    8%    7 Altair 5.0.0       3153   36   37   252   45%  3190   18%    8 Ginkgo 1.2         3150   36   37   252   44%  3190   18%    9 Booot 6.1          3146   36   36   252   43%  3190   25%   10 Nirvana 2.5        3143   36   36   252   43%  3190   22% 
   • Constants (Non-Handicapped) contain: 252 games / In Handicapped mode: 420 
    More Details:   • In this Blitz tour, as Top players picked, which performed one of best: Results   • For better /  stable performance, Hyper Threading and Large Pages disabled    • All (which capable to learn) are played with Learning OFF (for more fair cond)   • And as usual, all of NNUE engines are participated via theirs default Evalfiles   • The tour's overall draw percentage (based on 2520 games) is very low: 26%   • As usually, current used handicapped suite + games are available: Download
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