Breaking News (23.06.2024):     1st of all, thanks to all authors..without you: these tours would not exist !!     Yes another new CS is organized...and as players of 3770+ participated..     What is new (via current tour)? only 1 (one) engine per author/s allowed     And instead of Balsa this time Unique openings are used..and as we see,     Any engine performance depends on our used cond e.g via Balsa suite LI      If we are looking for eng improvements... the situation is 'piteous' for sure,     Where via Unique suite, it's clear that there is serious improvement, right?     And in same time that means via strong openings is 'worthless' to organize      3770+ tours, because the electricity is not cheap in my area, where I live..)     And without to not mention this I can not as well, some people prefer to say     Such as Perfect, Balsa openings are Drawish Btw, maybe Top engines are    Too Drawish? Who knows ?) However they suggest to be used other books     Suites..usually, they suggest the very weak suites..sure no problem..anyone     Is free to run, to use any opening, engine as he wish...But however, these     'Clever' experts are missing one small point, if via handicapped, weak suite:     1st They always forget to mention that these opening suites are very weak!     2nd for right, correct Elo measurements are required thousands of games     Per player..that's it..no more no less and 3rd I hope my postings will be useful..     On other hand, Skynet's engine is as 'BEAST' under these tournament cond!     And frankly soımetimes I wonder...(since SF-PB is based/derived from SF)     How can be possible that SF-PB is performing better than its mother (SF) ?     Sure I'm not a programmer, but looks like SF-PB is came from other planet..     And destroyed everything on field..reality is reality..!! Btw for anyone missed,     SF-PB has tiny size, capable to use BIN, in short, what we can need more?)     Where its real mother (SF) has no such great futures...sad...but very old SF      Vers. were capable to use BIN...(if I'm not wrong up to SF5 were capable...)     In other words, actually the wheel goes forward, not backward, but whatever..     And more strange, mostly Top ones which are considering as original (sure      I  mean for NON-SF based engines), they are not capable to use BIN too ))     And my 6th strong sense says if SF will start to use BIN, they will start too )     Meanwhile, for detailed information about current tour OpenChess and Goi
     The Champion: SF-PB 120624 - My Congratulations to Skynet, SF Team!     I congratulate the authors of D. Blue for 2nd place /  SF-PRO for 3rd too!
Rank Name               Elo    +    - games score oppo. draws   1 SF-PB 120624      3785    5    5  1848   51%  3778   86%    2 D.Blue 180524     3782    5    5  1848   51%  3778   87%    3 SF-PRO 160624     3781    5    5  1848   50%  3778   86%    4 LittleBeast 15    3780    5    5  1848   50%  3778   86%    5 Stockfish 150624  3780    5    5  1848   50%  3778   87%    6 Private 19Sf      3779    5    5  1848   50%  3778   88%    7 Brainlearn 28.1   3779    5    5  1848   50%  3778   86%    8 Corchess 180624   3779    5    5  1848   50%  3778   87%    9 Polyfish 140124   3777    5    5  1848   50%  3778   87%   10 Killfish 150624   3775    5    5  1848   49%  3779   87%   11 Kookaburra 2      3773    5    5  1848   49%  3779   86%   12 SFNNv6 16.1       3770    5    5  1848   49%  3779   86% 
       • Calculated by Bayeselo / SFNNv6 is fixed to 3770  / Blue Name = Last Update
More Details:• For better, stable performance: HT (SMT) + Large Pages are OFFPlayed as Concurrent games: 64 that means with 50% CPU usage  • All NNUE engines are AVX2 and tested via theirs default Evalfiles• Against time loses, any Engine's move overhead is increased to 250   Except SF-PRO, which comes without move overhead options, sad..   Very likely for these reasons, SF-PRO lost 3 (three) games on time (   Anyhow here is Screenshot, so you can check which are lost on time   I hope these engines which are not stable..will be fixed..if not simply   They will be out.. sure if future tours... thanks for your understanding,   Because 'Stability' is one of most important parts at least for my side!   In short, for fair..we have to fight against gaining very easy points...• All games played with newer Unique ver (based on 500+ openings)  For more fair cond.,each of used opening line is repeated as twiceBesides, Engine Learning is disabled (such as exp files not allowed)Stockfish 150624 = Author: FauziAkram, Timestamp: 1718446439Draw-ratio of official contest (based on 11080 games): not high 87%  Btw, Candidate tour's draw ratio (based on 3600 games) is same too 87%• As usually, all the played games are available (in PGN): NNUE LII