Breaking News (28.01.2025):New series of tours are organized...Congrats and BIG thanks to all Authors!Today I realized to test many more engines which are close to 3800+, whereCorChess is CorChess, managed successfully to defend his Champion title!!But I admit that SF-PRO2 was a serious Champ candidate! but unfortunatelyLost but not due to strength or needed more luck etc. simply lost due not soStable..e.g there are 9 games lost on time by SF-PRO2..sad, we are in 2025 But..actually I'm doing my best such as increasing move overhead to 200.. but APOCALYPSE's engine comes with poor settings e.g no way to increase..andJust if again SF-PRO eng series will lost on time.I'll will not test them anymore.. Because 'stability' is most important part! I assume for your side too!? Btw,SF PRO author is informed (in past) about over these instability issues, butIt seems he is not capable to fix the mentioned time management problems...While I'm mentioning about time management, mostly of chess engines are Are stable..no many time loses but some (including latest SF dev. series) play Too fast..there is unbalanced TC issue.. such as half of time control not used..Strange, right ? I am not a programmer, but according to my experience, min80%-90% overall time should be used (in game play, in long moves matches)However, I'm grateful from all authors since all these Top engines are for free!Besides, no anyone's work is perfect. including mine.., even machines makeMistake..Ah pardon, we've perfect fools who love to criticize others but theirsWork is so limited and it's not worth, it will be waste of time to talk more over..Ok, friends that's all for now..see you later and have fun with latest results !)Meanwhile, for my previous postings (about current tour) OpenChess forum
LVI's GRAND Champion CorChess - Congratulations to I. Ivec & SF team!
Yes...my favorite openings may not be faultless, but this is also true that They rarely make mistakes and proved not once, not twice, many times! Btw, as reference (for anyone missed...) here is one of tourneys: Results
Update: Latest Overall Ranking (by Balsa + Unique): Corchess 190125
Rank Name Elo + - games score oppo. draws 1 Corchess 190125 3819 3 4 3616 52% 3804 89% 2 SF-PRO2 250125 3818 5 5 1850 52% 3806 89% 3 Contact 10 SE 3817 4 4 3616 52% 3804 89% 4 Killfish 021224 3815 4 4 3350 51% 3806 89% 5 Kookaburra 3 3815 4 4 3616 52% 3804 88% 6 Stockfish 17 3814 5 5 1850 51% 3806 90% 7 SF-PB 221124 3812 4 4 3616 51% 3804 89% 8 Brainlearn 30 3811 4 4 3616 51% 3805 89% 9 Private 19Sf 3810 5 5 1850 51% 3806 90% 10 SpecTral v2 3810 5 5 1850 51% 3806 90% 11 Solidor 180924 3809 5 5 1850 50% 3806 89% 12 Sun 15 3809 5 5 2050 51% 3805 88% 13 ShashChess 37 3808 5 5 1850 50% 3806 89% 14 Tactical Titan 3807 5 5 1850 50% 3806 88% 15 Stockfish 190125 3807 5 5 2016 50% 3804 88% 16 Stockfish 260125 3806 5 5 1850 50% 3806 89% 17 SF-POLY 210924a 3806 5 5 1850 50% 3806 91% 18 Artemis 7 TR 3806 5 5 1850 50% 3806 88% 19 Magic Knight 3806 5 5 1850 50% 3806 89% 20 Fidelio 17 3805 5 5 1850 50% 3806 90% 21 Incognito 8.2 3805 5 5 1850 50% 3806 90% 22 Steel Fighter 3 3805 5 5 1850 50% 3806 89% 23 C-Dragon v3 3805 5 5 1850 50% 3806 90% 24 DarkSeid 5.3 3804 5 5 2166 50% 3804 88% 25 SF-PB 280924 SC 3804 5 5 1850 50% 3806 89% 26 Polyfish 140124 3804 5 5 1850 50% 3806 88% 27 Artemis 6 TR 3804 5 5 2016 50% 3805 88% 28 Eman 9.90 3804 5 5 1850 50% 3806 87% 29 Deep Ripper 3803 5 5 1850 50% 3806 87% 30 Troubadour 1.5 3803 5 5 2050 50% 3805 90% 31 JigSaw v5.9 3803 5 5 1850 49% 3806 88% 32 Dark SisTer v2 3802 5 5 2166 50% 3805 89% 33 RapTora 3.0 3801 5 5 1850 49% 3806 88% 34 DeepBlue 0524 3801 5 5 1850 49% 3806 89% 35 Sailfish 4.0 3801 5 5 1850 49% 3806 88% 36 Aoda 17 3800 5 5 1850 49% 3806 89% 37 Beast M 010125 3800 5 5 2166 49% 3805 87% 38 SF-Ivec 180125 3800 5 5 2050 49% 3805 89% 39 Raid 36 TR 3800 5 5 1850 49% 3806 90% 40 Marauders 4 3798 5 5 1850 49% 3806 89% 41 HypnoS++ 1.01 3796 5 5 2166 49% 3805 88% 42 SFNNv6 16.1 3796 5 5 1850 48% 3806 86% 43 SF-PRO 311224 3787 5 5 2016 47% 3806 85% 44 JudaS++ 1.01 3783 4 4 2166 46% 3806 85% 45 Cool Iris 13.97 3782 5 5 1600 46% 3805 85%
• On Date 27.01.2025: A lot of Top players are entered / Draw Ratio: 88%
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Ranking on 25.01.2025 (by Balsa openings): Corchess 190125
Rank Name Elo + - games score oppo. draws 1 Corchess 190125 3819 6 6 1008 52% 3804 90% 2 Contact 10 SE 3816 6 6 1008 52% 3804 90% 3 Kookaburra 3 3815 6 6 1008 52% 3804 88% 4 SF-PB 221124 3813 6 6 1008 51% 3804 90% 5 Brainlearn 30 3809 6 6 1008 51% 3805 90% 6 Stockfish 190125 3808 6 6 1008 50% 3805 91% 7 DarkSeid 5.3 3806 6 6 1008 50% 3805 90% 8 Dark SisTer v2 3803 6 6 1008 50% 3805 91% 9 Artemis 6 TR 3801 6 6 1008 49% 3805 90% 10 HypnoS++ 1.01 3799 6 6 1008 49% 3806 91% 11 Beast M 010125 3799 6 6 1008 49% 3806 87% 12 SF-PRO 311224 3790 6 6 1008 47% 3806 89% 13 JudaS++ 1.01 3788 6 6 1008 47% 3806 88%
• Balsa's Draw Ratio is normal: 89%------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ranking on 25.01.2025 (by Unique openings): Corchess 190125
Rank Name Elo + - games score oppo. draws 1 Corchess 190125 3826 7 7 1008 53% 3807 87% 2 Brainlearn 30 3821 7 7 1008 52% 3807 86% 3 Contact 10 SE 3821 7 7 1008 52% 3807 86% 4 SF-PB 221124 3817 7 7 1008 51% 3808 86% 5 Kookaburra 3 3815 7 7 1008 51% 3808 87% 6 Stockfish 190125 3811 7 7 1008 50% 3808 85% 7 Artemis 6 TR 3810 7 7 1008 50% 3808 87% 8 DarkSeid 5.3 3808 7 7 1008 50% 3808 86% 9 Dark SisTer v2 3807 7 7 1008 50% 3808 87% 10 Beast M 010125 3803 7 7 1008 49% 3809 85% 11 HypnoS++ 1.01 3797 7 7 1008 48% 3809 85% 12 SF-PRO 311224 3789 7 7 1008 47% 3810 82% 13 JudaS++ 1.01 3782 7 7 1008 46% 3811 82%
• Unique's Draw Ratio is normal again: 86%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Just as alternative, an unofficial test (simply for comparing...):
The Leaders (by UHO openings): Contact 10 SE + SF-PB 221124 And as I stated earlier (about UHO openings), just great fun! butUnpredictable (unbalanced) performances by many participants!Anyhow, it seems the situation is better nowadays e.g in the past, The Elo differences/distances between 1st vs last rank were more..Sure I refer for 3800+ Elo ones, but just in case of test via weakerEngines, then Elo diff. are expecting much more e.g see: Results
And as a last note : Here I've expected Stockfish to win due highly is tuned via UHO series..
Rank Name Elo + - games score oppo. draws 1 Contact 10 SE 3831 18 18 1008 53% 3809 16% 2 SF-PB 221124 3831 18 18 1008 53% 3809 16% 3 Corchess 190125 3829 18 18 1008 53% 3809 14% 4 Stockfish 190125 3817 19 18 1008 51% 3810 13% 5 Kookaburra 3 3815 18 18 1008 51% 3810 14% 6 Brainlearn 30 3814 18 18 1008 51% 3810 15% 7 Artemis 6 TR 3809 18 18 1008 50% 3810 16% 8 HypnoS++ 1.01 3807 18 18 1008 50% 3811 15% 9 DarkSeid 5.3 3807 18 18 1008 49% 3811 15% 10 Dark SisTer v2 3805 18 18 1008 49% 3811 16% 11 Beast M 010125 3799 18 18 1008 48% 3811 16% 12 SF-PRO 311224 3789 18 18 1008 47% 3812 15% 13 JudaS++ 1.01 3780 18 18 1008 46% 3813 16%
• UHO's Draw Ratio is very low: 15%
• All rankings are calculated by Bayeselo / Kookaburra 3 is fixed to 3815 Elo
More Details:• All players are used to play via CuteChess GUI's concurrent games: 72 And all of them are played as without learning (and with no any exp etc.)• Sure where possible, all engines via move overhead 200 are participated• For more fair conditions, each of used opening line is repeated as twice• All of the played tournament games are available (in PGN) Part I // Part II Note: Latest games are recorded as without increments in database, but No worry all matches played with mentioned TC (15sec + 0.3sec) Details
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