Breaking News (21.10.2023):   Current championship ended..congratulations and many thanks to all authors!   Finely SF-Poly lost the lead where Stockfish 220823 sl managed to be Champ!!   Yes..a great performance..and it seems the pre-learned EXP played some role..   E.g if comparing Stockfish sl No Exp vs Stockfish 220823 sl: 8 Elo difference..   Frankly, I'm impressed a lot by Stockfish 220823 sl' learning, stability influence...   E.g as far as I noticed its all learned moves are played in auto (as RapTora 2.2)   On other hand, if we check all the rest played new engines..we will notice that   Mostly of them are close in strength...so here under these cond. it is clear that   No much Elo progress (sure in latest months) and now I wonder: who will pay   My electricity bills ?)) just joking...you may know...over the past years.I do this   Job all for free..even donation I never requested..because I love Chess much,   The rest it does not matter at all... sure I respect and give understanding who   Work commercially etc. because the life is not so cheap..at least where I live )   Thank you for your interest...see you in next toıurs )
The Champion Stockfish 220823 sl Congratulations to Eduard Nemeth, SF team!
Rank Name                  Elo    +    - games score oppo. draws    1 Stockfish 220823 sl  3757    4    4  1600   59%  3713   79%    2 SF-Poly 220723       3755    4    4  1600   59%  3713   80%    3 Stockfish 141023     3754    4    4  1600   59%  3713   81%    4 Eman 9.51            3753    4    4  1600   58%  3713   79%    5 Tactical 041023      3752    4    4  1600   58%  3713   81%    6 Corchess 151023      3752    4    4  1600   58%  3713   80%    7 SpecTral 5.0         3752    4    4  1600   58%  3713   78%    8 Brainlearn 26        3751    4    4  1600   58%  3713   80%    9 ShashChess 34        3750    4    4  1600   58%  3713   78%   10 Patzer AI X 2560i    3750    4    4  1600   58%  3713   81%   11 Hazard 3             3750    4    4  1600   58%  3713   81%   12 Raid v278i X         3750    4    4  1600   58%  3713   80%   13 Swordfish 15.5       3749    4    5  1600   57%  3713   80%   14 Stockfish sl No Exp  3749    4    5  1600   57%  3713   80%   15 SunLight 3           3748    4    5  1600   57%  3713   81%   16 ProteusSF Aureo      3746    4    5  1600   57%  3714   79%   17 RapTora 2.2          3743    5    5  1600   56%  3714   81%   18 CiChess 040121       3693    5    5  1600   46%  3715   79%   19 Crystal 060622       3692    5    5  1600   46%  3715   78%   20 FatFritz 2           3691    5    5  1600   45%  3715   78%   21 KDragon 3.3 MCTS     3691    5    5  1600   45%  3715   78%   22 CF-EXT 161120        3686    5    4  1600   44%  3715   78%   23 KDragon 2.5          3686    5    4  1600   44%  3715   77%   24 Berserk 11           3686    5    4  1600   44%  3715   77%   25 Spectral T 1.21      3677    4    4  1600   42%  3716   69%   26 Stockfish 12         3676    4    4  1600   42%  3716   77%   27 Vafra 12.4           3676    4    4  1600   42%  3716   77%   28 C.S.Tal 2.00         3673    4    4  1600   41%  3716   76%   29 Zeus 9.4             3671    4    4  1600   41%  3716   75%   30 Koivisto 090223      3660    4    4  1600   38%  3716   69%   31 REBEL EAS            3659    4    4  1600   38%  3716   71%   32 Clover 6.0           3653    4    4  1600   36%  3716   67%   33 RubiChess 100423     3649    4    4  1600   35%  3717   66% 
       • Calculated by Bayeselo / Stockfish 12 is fixed to 3676  / Blue Name = Last Update
More Details• Almost all of NNUE engines are AVX2, tested via their default Evalfiles• All of current matches are played via Balsa and Unique opening suites       For more fair conditions: each of the opening line is repeated as twice• Sure where possible: all of engines are played via move overhead: 100   As far as I've noticed so far (as usually): no any game to be lost on time• The overall draw percentage (based on 26400 games) not so high: 78%• All the played tournament games are available (in PGN) NNUE XXXVIII
Meanwhile (for anyone missed) my previous postings regarding current tour:Just another new championship is started.. in similar testing way as  XXXVI Exc this time: plus Unique suite is used to play (in case of close to 3750 Elo) Just out of curiosity, two former Champs (RapTora and SF-Poly) played too! Btw, we can't expect much from RapTora 2.2, since it's already too old-dated.. But SF-Poly 220723 is managed to be Number One!! again with great score!! Yes.. via this tour: the strongest engines say as last word...no more.. no less! Frankly here I expected the newer to be Winner..but not always this happens.. At least under these cond. actually no BIG surprise.. because NNUE is dead.. In case of SF Elo improvements via strong opening suites...for more: Details By the way, the competition is still active..very soon more entries are coming.. E.g one of them: BrainLearn 26, Stockfish 230823 sl (other former Champion) Plus many other strong chess engines of 3750 Elo will be participated as well One thing more, this competition as NNUE enabled.. why I mention...because  Some may have confusions..(after checking the current produced draw-ratio) And who said that Balsa is Drawish?) as we see...it is all in our hands,  right? Ok friends..please stay tuned.. and soon as possible more updates coming !