Breaking News (27.01.2026):      1st of all, why so many info I shared over decades? Simply due for our chess    Progress..if you will gain good..if not..too bad..but be sure I can live with that !)    On other hand, I am sure too someone/s may not happy with my played tours..    But as best solution for ones who always come with critics: everyone has a PC..    What do you wait? Prove that you're better TD...easy on Papers, but in Reality:    The facts, and skills say the 'last' words!! and I hope this helps! But no matter,    Those negative, ungrateful people will be never or very rarely will be satisfied..    But no problem at all..on contrary we've also so kind and positive people where    They keep me to be STILL active in our great hobby..as you know, all for free!    And and and..if going back to current contest..the Winner is KillFish PB, a real     Master piece's work by Mr. Anton..yes..he proved many times that his engines    Are one of best...as same words are going for many others great authors too!    Ok dear chess friends many thanks and congratulations to all eng developers..    And as last, another inspirational quote by the greatest boxer - Muhammad Ali:    To be a great champion you must believe you're the best.If you’re not, pretend you're.Meanwhile, for previous news (about current competition): OpenChess forum
LXVIII's Champion: Killfish PB - My Congratulations to Anton CES / SF Team!
Rank Name               Elo     +    - games score oppo. draws    1 KillfishPB 260126  3819    4    4  2040   52%  3809   92%    2 Corchess 080126    3817    4    4  2040   51%  3809   92%    3 Stockfish 220126   3816    4    4  2040   51%  3809   91%    4 Esox 181225        3816    4    4  2040   51%  3809   93%    5 Hlamnick 080126    3815    4    4  2040   51%  3810   92%    6 SF-PB 261125       3815    4    4  2040   51%  3810   90%    7 DarkSeid 7.8 EE    3814    4    4  2040   51%  3810   92%    8 Raid 5.5 T-1000    3813    4    4  2040   51%  3810   92%    9 Leptir TI MPV PB   3813    4    4  2040   51%  3810   91%   10 HypnoS 241225      3812    4    4  2040   51%  3810   92%   11 Artemis 26.3TR     3812    4    4  2040   51%  3810   92%   12 Revolution 4.60    3812    4    4  2040   50%  3810   92%   13 T. Titan 6.0 PrO   3811    4    4  2040   50%  3810   92%   14 Wordfish 3.80      3810    4    4  2040   50%  3810   92%   15 CorChessMZ 1.0.3   3808    4    4  2040   50%  3810   91%   16 SF-POLY 011225     3804    4    4  2040   49%  3810   93%   17 DON 250126         3800    4    4  2040   48%  3810   91%   18 Theoria 16.01      3769    3    3  2040   41%  3812   79%   
     • Calculated by Bayeselo / SF-PB 261125 fixed to 3815 / Blue Name = Last Update
    More Details (when the tour was active):    • As usual, almost of engines are AVX2, tested via theirs default Evalfiles     • For max. stability and performance: HT (SMT) plus Large Page disabled      • All of tournament matches are played with physical core/s (not thread/s)     • GUI Options - Concurrent Games: 68, that means with 53% CPU usage    • Unique opening book suite is used for all players (based on 1113+ lines)  And for more fair conditions, each of used opening line repeated: twice    • Plus, for more fair tour conditions, 'Engine Learning' is disabled as well    • Sure where possible: all of engines are played with move overhead 100     • Draw ratio is high: 91% but if strong openings no many ways to be less..    • Any Leader... after 2000+ games (per player) will be titled as Champion     • All of the played tour games are available (in PGN): SCCT NNUE LXVIII