Breaking News (06.02.2025):     Just another new CS, this time as players are new releases plus highest     Rated are picked of recent LVI and here are the final rankings, Note also     That Tie-Break matches are played between SF-FAU vs Troubadour, due     Theirs points were equal (during official round-robin competition) And yes     Mr Eduard's engine (Troubadour) performed unbelievable superior strong     Under these preferred cond. On the other hand, SF-FAU as new incomer,     Managed to be 2nd rank, really can be counted as shocking news, since     In current tour, there are many serious players.. In fact, as we see, again     Contact, CorChess etc are one of strongest engines! Btw, Kookaburra 3,     Private 19Sf are oldest, released many months ago, but still among best!     One thing more, against confusions... DON v3.1 is a engine (not a book)     Meanwhile, please stay tuned: very soon new NON-NNUE CS is coming..     Ok dear chess friends, that's all for now, congrats and many thanks to all!
    The Champion: Troubadour 1.5a - My Congratulations to Eduard Nemeth!
Rank Name               Elo    +    - games score oppo. draws   1 Troubadour 1.5a   3827    5    5  1220   52%  3817   90%    2 SF-FAU 030225     3825    5    5  1220   51%  3817   90%    3 Contact 10 SE     3824    5    6  1020   51%  3815   90%    4 Corchess 190125   3822    6    6  1020   51%  3815   92%    5 Brainlearn 30     3821    6    6  1020   51%  3815   90%    6 Killfish 021224   3820    6    6  1020   51%  3815   90%    7 Dark SisTer v2.1  3819    6    6  1020   51%  3815   90%    8 SF-PB 221124      3818    6    6  1020   50%  3816   90%    9 SF-PRO2 290125    3817    6    6  1020   50%  3816   92%   10 Perelandra 1.0    3816    6    6  1020   50%  3816   91%   11 SpecTral v2       3816    6    6  1020   50%  3816   91%   12 Kookaburra 3      3815    6    6  1020   50%  3816   90%   13 Private 19Sf      3813    6    6  1020   50%  3816   91%   14 ShashChess 38     3811    6    6  1020   49%  3816   93%   15 Stockfish 040225  3810    6    6  1020   49%  3816   90%   16 DON v3.1          3779    5    4  1020   43%  3818   82% 
      • Calculated by Bayeselo / Kookaburra fixed to 3815 / Blue Name = Last Update
More Details:• For better and stable performance: HT (SMT) + Large Pages: Disabled• GUI option: Played via Concurrent games: 72, means 56% CPU usage  • Almost all the engines are AVX2.. and tested via theirs default Evalfiles• Sure where possible, any Engine's move overhead is increased to: 200• All engines played with a newer Unique ver (based on 1000+ openings)  For more fair conditions, each of used opening line is repeated as twice• Plus for fair..Engine Learning is disabled (Exp etc. files are not allowed)• The draws (based on 8360 games): normal 91%, since strong lines used  Besides, current stats are quite enough data to see/ check which are strongest..• And as usually, all of tour games are available (in PGN) NNUE LVIII CS