Breaking News (30.01.2026):Another excited CS organized (Knockout: 30s+0.6s,100 games per encounter)And this time the Winner is the Mother: Stockfish 280126, really impressive !!Tactical Titan 6 PrO performed so impressive, lost just with 1 point in the FinalSure Killfish, HypnoS are other great ones that managed to be in Semi-finals!Where this time SF-PB seemed to be not so lucky (eliminated by Tactical Titan),Anyhow, I like current KO duels...I assume you too..yes, these matches are notIdeal way for determining eng strength, but they're like extreme cage-fighting !) If nothing else at least worth to be organized time to time..Ok my chess friends, As usually many thanks for your interest and congratulations to all eng authors!Meanwhile, for previous news (about current championship): OpenChess forum
Knockout II's Champion: Stockfish - My Congratulations to Stockfish Team!
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More Details (when the knockout matches were 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 • A newer Unique opening suite is used for all players (tuned for 3800+ Elo) 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: 92% but if strong openings no many ways to be less.. • All of the played tour games are available (in PGN): NN / Knockout CS II
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