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PROMOTIONAL LEAGUE TOURNAMENT 022307 40/4’

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Tournament

Name

Authors

Tester Group

Country

superchessengine.com

Bronze

Denis P. Mendoza

SuperLeague

Engine Testing Conditions

CPU

GUI

Opening Book

Memory

total

Memory

hash

EGTB

(3-4-5)

EGTB

cache

Time

Tournament

type

Round

Total Games

Athlon 1700 XP

Arena 1.99 beta3

HS-Book

512 mb

32 mb

3-4

40/4’

Round Robin

190

More Testing conditions:

HS-Book set to 5-moves opening lines, ponder-off

Chess engines:

31^th to 50^th rank free uci engines.

Date:

2007.03.09

Pgn (link to your homepage or here):

Tester Homepage

http://www.superchessengine.com/

Results:

PL022307 tournament

Rank	Engine	Score	Ga	Qu	Dr	Mu	Ne	Ay	Ar	Pa	He	Al	Ai	Ho	SJ	Pu	To	Li	Ch	Le	Ha	At	S-B
01	Gaia_3.5	14.5/19	·	=	0	1	1	1	=	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	=	1	1	1	1	129.00
02	Queen_3.09	14.0/19	=	·	1	0	1	1	0	=	0	=	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	=	1	1	119.75
03	Dragon_46.	13.0/19	1	0	·	=	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	=	1	1	1	1	109.25
04	Muse_0.899b	13.0/19	0	1	=	·	0	0	=	1	=	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	=	1	1	108.00
05	Nejmet_307	13.0/19	0	0	0	1	·	0	1	1	1	1	=	1	0	1	=	1	1	1	1	1	107.75
06	Ayito_0.2.994	12.0/19	0	0	1	1	1	·	1	=	0	0	1	1	=	1	1	1	=	1	=	0	111.00
07	Arion 1.7	11.5/19	=	1	1	=	0	0	·	1	1	=	0	0	0	1	1	=	1	1	1	=	105.25
08	Patzer_UCI/FRC	11.5/19	0	=	1	0	0	=	0	·	=	1	1	=	1	0	=	1	1	1	1	1	93.00
09	Hermann_1.9	11.0/19	0	1	0	=	0	1	0	=	·	1	1	=	=	=	0	1	=	1	1	1	93.00
10	Alfil_6.10	9.0/19	1	=	0	0	0	1	=	0	0	·	0	1	1	=	0	=	0	1	1	1	77.75
11	Aice_0.99.2	9.0/19	0	0	1	0	=	0	1	0	0	1	·	1	0	=	0	1	1	0	1	1	73.75
12	Homer_1.1beta3	8.5/19	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	=	=	0	0	·	1	0	1	0	=	1	0	1	77.00
13	SJENG_12.13	8.0/19	0	0	0	0	1	=	1	0	=	0	1	0	·	1	1	=	0	=	0	1	68.00
14	Pupsi_0.17	7.5/19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	=	=	=	1	0	·	1	0	=	1	=	1	56.25
15	Tornado_1_0_mainz	6.5/19	0	0	0	0	=	0	0	=	1	1	1	0	0	0	·	1	1	0	0	=	55.50
16	LittleThought_0.98	6.5/19	=	0	=	0	0	0	=	0	0	=	0	1	=	1	0	·	0	0	1	1	52.50
17	Chispa_4.0.3	6.5/19	0	0	0	0	0	=	0	0	=	1	0	=	1	=	0	1	·	0	1	=	50.25
18	Leila_042u	6.5/19	0	=	0	=	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	=	0	1	1	1	·	0	1	48.50
19	Hamsters_0.0.6	6.0/19	0	0	0	0	0	=	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	=	1	0	0	1	·	1	41.75
20	Atlas_2.20	2.5/19	0	0	0	0	0	1	=	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	=	0	=	0	0	·	24.25

190 games played / Tournament is finished

Tester comments:

Denis Mendoza

This time, the 20 participants were given an opportunity to play a stiff single round robin tournament. Gaia, Queen, Dragon, Muse, and my old favorite, Nejmet were the top finishers. Gaia still maintained its stand as the best engine of the League. Queen, Dragon and Muse increased their standings while Nejmet will probably dropped slightly in the rankings as it came on 5^th place. It’s a well balanced performance for black and white pieces. E4 and D4 opening lines were the favorites (as expected).

Free EnginesChallenge

Logo Homepage	Tournament Name	Authors	Tester Group	Country
superchessengine.com	Free Engines Challenge	Gajendra Singh	Superleague

Engine testing condition

Cpu

GUI

Opening Book

Memory

total

Memory

hash

EGTB

(3-4-5?)

EGTB

cache

Time

Tournament

type

Round

Total games

P4 2.4

Arena

Noomen test suites

1 Gb

64Mo

3-4-5

16 Mo

40/4'

repeating

Round robin

180

more conditions :

Chess Engines :

4 engines

date:

Pgn

Free Engines Challenge PGN replay soon... I update only biweekly

Tester Homepage:

superchessengine.com

Final Results:

Free Engine Challenge

Rank	Engine	Score	S-B
1	Naum 2.0	55.0/90	2267.50
2	Fruit_21	50.0/90	2104.00
3	Scorpio 1.91 JA	42.0/90	1839.00
4	Glaurung 1.2.1	33.0/90	1611.50

180 games played / Tournament is finished

Tester comments :

Gajendra Singh:

This is a tournament between the top free engines (excluding the biggest guns Rybka 1.0 beta, Toga II 1.2.1a and Spike 1.2 Turin) . As expected Naum 2.0 won the tournament followed by Fruit 2.1 .Scorpio 1.91 finished clearly ahead of Glaurung 1.2.1 . I will next test The "avalanche" setting (by CCRL) for Glaurung in the same tournament.

BRONZE TOURNAMENT 022007 40/4’

Logo Homepage

Tournament

Name

Authors

Tester Group

Country

superchessengine.com

Bronze

Denis P. Mendoza

SuperLeague

Engine Testing Conditions

CPU

GUI

Opening Book

Memory

total

Memory

hash

EGTB

(3-4-5)

EGTB

cache

Time

Tournament

type

Round

Total Games

Athlon 1700 XP

Arena 1.99BETA3

HS-BOOK

512 mb

32 mb

3-4

40/4’

Round Robin

More Testing conditions:

21^th to 30^th rank free uci engines. Ponder off. HS-Mainbook opening lines reduced to 5-moves

Chess engines:

Zappa , Pepito , Deep Frenzee, Alaric(formaerly Terra) , Abrok, Snitch, Twisted Logic, Booot, Arasan, Amyan (all using default settings)

Date:

2007.02.20

Pgn (link to your homepage or here):

Tester Homepage

http://www.superchessengine.com/

Results:

BL022007 tournament

Rank	Engine	Score	Am	Za	Bo	Lo	Pe	Al	Fr	Sn	Ar	Ab	S-B
01	Amyan 1.597	11.0/18	· ·	1=	0=	01	11	10	1=	1=	=0	=1	96.50
02	Zappa1.1	10.5/18	0=	· ·	11	11	=0	00	1=	0=	=1	11	90.00
03	Booot 4.13	10.0/18	1=	00	· ·	10	11	=0	11	00	11	==	88.50
04	Logic080beta26	9.5/18	10	00	01	· ·	=1	1=	=0	10	01	11	80.75
05	Pepito_159	9.5/18	00	=1	00	=0	· ·	11	10	10	=1	11	78.75
06	Alaric 0702b	9.0/18	01	11	=1	0=	00	· ·	0=	11	01	=0	82.75
07	Frenzee 1.1	9.0/18	0=	0=	00	=1	01	1=	· ·	11	1=	=0	78.25
08	Snitch 1.62	8.0/18	0=	1=	11	01	01	00	00	· ·	10	10	73.75
09	Arasan 9.5	7.5/18	=1	=0	00	10	=0	10	0=	01	· ·	=1	66.50
10	Abrok_5_0	6.0/18	=0	00	==	00	00	=1	=1	01	=0	· ·	54.25

Tournament start: 2007.02.20, 16:47:05
Latest update: 2007.02.22, 05:19:38

Tester comments:

Denis Mendoza

This League is the most balanced and unpredictable as there is no regular domination between participants. It’s a very close ending as Amyan took a half-point lead against veteran (and 2^nd place) Zappa. Because of the new updates of Booot, Terra (now Alaric) and Twisted Logic, competition went neck-and-neck. The older warriors like Amyan and Pepito still managed to give the newcomers a decent battle. It’s also interesting to note a 53% performance for black against 47% for white. Endgame supremacy is the key for most of these games which ended on long routes.

Silver league

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Tournament

Name

Authors

Tester Group

Country

superchessengine.com

Silver League

Denis P. Mendoza

SuperLeague

Engine Testing Conditions

CPU

GUI

Opening Book

Memory

total

Memory

hash

EGTB

(3-4-5)

EGTB

cache

Time

Tournament

type

Round

Total Games

Athlon 1700 XP

Arena 1.1

HS-Book.abk

512 mb

32 mb

3-4

40/4’

Round Robin

More Testing conditions:

11^th to 20^th rank free uci engines. Utilized latest Harry Schnapp book with opening lines limited to 5-moves, rest on defaults.

Chess engines:

Pharaon, Tao, Ktulu, Aristarch, Ufim, SOS, Colossus, Anmon, Yace, SlowchessBlitz (all using default settings). Engine updates: Guest engine: LittleGoliath Evolution 3.12

Date:

12-02-07

Pgn ():

Tester Homepage

http://www.superchessengine.com/

Results:

Silver League Tournament 5

Rank

Engine

Score

S-B

Pharaon351

16.0/20

· ·· ··

1.5/2

2.0/2

1.0/2

1.5/2

1.0/2

2.0/2

147.00

SlowWV21

14.5/20

0.5/2

· ·· ··

1.0/2

2.0/2

1.0/2

2.0/2

1.5/2

2.0/2

126.75

Aristarch 4.50

14.0/20

0.0/2

1.0/2

· ·· ··

2.0/2

1.5/2

0.5/2

2.0/2

1.5/2

123.75

LGEvolution 3.12

11.5/20

1.0/2

0.0/2

· ·· ··

1.0/2

0.5/2

2.0/2

0.5/2

1.5/2

2.0/2

97.50

Colossus2006f

11.0/20

0.5/2

0.0/2

1.0/2

· ·· ··

2.0/2

1.5/2

1.0/2

2.0/2

1.0/2

2.0/2

87.50

SOS-51_Arena

9.5/20

0.5/2

0.0/2

0.5/2

1.5/2

0.0/2

· ·· ··

1.0/2

1.5/2

2.0/2

1.0/2

79.50

AnMon_560

8.0/20

0.5/2

1.0/2

1.5/2

0.0/2

0.5/2

1.0/2

· ·· ··

0.5/2

0.0/2

1.5/2

77.50

Yace Paderborn

8.0/20

1.0/2

0.0/2

1.5/2

1.0/2

0.5/2

1.5/2

· ·· ··

0.0/2

1.0/2

1.5/2

73.00

Tao56

7.5/20

0.0/2

0.5/2

0.0/2

0.5/2

0.0/2

0.5/2

2.0/2

· ·· ··

0.5/2

1.5/2

58.75

Ktulu42

6.0/20

0.0/2

0.5/2

0.0/2

1.0/2

0.0/2

0.5/2

1.0/2

1.5/2

· ·· ··

1.0/2

52.50

Ufim802

4.0/20

0.0/2

0.5/2

0.0/2

1.0/2

0.5/2

1.0/2

· ·· ··

34.25

Tester comments:

Denis P. Mendoza

Pharaon even in the past proved its supremacy in the league and showed them again who’s boss. It took solo lead with an impressive 16 pts. followed by demoted Golden League member, SlowchessBitz with 14.5 points. Another solid contender, Aristarch, followed closely in 3^rd place with 14 points. The Goliath engine seemed to be well-placed in this league as it took solo 4^th place with 11 points. The limited 5-move opening lines from the book exemplify how well each engine will handle chosen lines. The results were pretty good as both white and black shared almost the same percentage of wins, but slightly avoiding ECO-E opening lines.

Winboard DIVISION 3

Logo Homepage	Tournament Name	Authors	Tester Group	Country
superchessengine.com	Winboard Engine premier	Gajendra Singh	Superleague

Engine testing condition

Cpu

GUI

Opening Book

Memory

total

Memory

hash

EGTB

(3-4-5?)

EGTB

cache

Time

Tournament

type

Round

Total games

P4 2.4

Arena1.99b3

1 Gb

64Mo

3-4-5

16 Mo

40/4'

repeating

Round robin

180

more conditions :

Chess Engines :

winboard engines

date:

Pgn

winboarddiv3replay soon... I update only biweekly

Tester Homepage:

superchessengine.com

Final Results:

WinboardDiv3-2

Rank	Engine	Score	Sm	An	Ta	Ps	Bo	Tr	Ba	Cr	Ya	Ar	S-B
01	SmarThink 0.17a	21.5/36	· ·· ·	1=00	=011	1=01	1=11	0100	1110	==0=	111=	110=	373.50
02	AnMon 5.60	20.5/36	0=11	· ·· ·	1=01	=01=	0==1	=101	0101	==10	1011	0011	364.25
03	Tao56	20.5/36	=100	0=10	· ·· ·	=0=1	==01	1101	1010	1101	1011	1=01	354.50
04	Pseudo07c	19.0/36	0=10	=10=	=1=0	· ·· ·	==11	1=01	0000	=110	1=11	10==	336.50
05	Booot 413	19.0/36	0=00	1==0	==10	==00	· ·· ·	==00	1111	1=10	011=	1=11	320.25
06	Trace 1.37a	18.5/36	1011	=010	0010	0=10	==11	· ·· ·	11=0	01==	1000	1101	328.75
07	Baron 1.7.0	17.0/36	0001	1010	0101	1111	0000	00=1	· ·· ·	0111	=100	1010	304.75
08	Crafty Cito 2.0	17.0/36	==1=	==01	0010	=001	0=01	10==	1000	· ·· ·	1001	111=	298.25
09	Yace Paderborn	15.0/36	000=	0100	0100	0=00	100=	0111	=011	0110	· ·· ·	1011	257.75
10	Arasan 95	12.0/36	001=	1100	0=10	01==	0=00	0010	0101	000=	0100	· ·· ·	227.50

180 games played / Tournament is finished

Tester comments :

Gajendra Singh:

SmarThink 0.17a, AnMon 5.60 and Tao 5.6 made it to second division . Booot 4.1.3 just missed the cut this time but it is sure to find its way up sooner or later .

Chess 960/FRC Premier

Logo Homepage	Tournament Name	Authors	Tester Group	Country
superchessengine.com	chess 960	Gajendra Singh	Superleague

Engine testing condition

Cpu

GUI

Opening Book

Memory

total

Memory

hash

EGTB

(3-4-5?)

EGTB

cache

Time

Tournament

type

Round

Total games

P4 2.4

Arena

1 Gb

64Mo

3-4-5

16 Mo

40/4'

repeating

Round robin

180

more conditions :

Chess Engines :

10 FRC engines

date:

Pgn

FRCdivision2.pgn replay soon... I update only biweekly

Tester Homepage:

superchessengine.com

Final Results:

FRC-Premier 3

Rank	Engine	Score	Sp	Na	Gl	Jo	Ph	Mo	Uf	He	Ch	Ai	S-B
01	Spike1.2	32.5/36	· ·· ·	1011	1101	1111	11=1	11=1	1111	11=1	1111	1111	516.00
02	Naum2.0_frc	27.0/36	0100	· ·· ·	0111	1111	1=1=	1111	1110	=01=	=111	11=1	427.50
03	Glaurung1.2.1_PG	24.0/36	0010	1000	· ·· ·	0=10	11=1	1110	0111	1111	11=1	1=11	344.75
04	Jonny 2.83	21.0/36	0000	0000	1=01	· ·· ·	0111	1=11	111=	10=0	=11=	1111	293.00
05	Pharaon 3.51	19.5/36	00=0	0=0=	00=0	1000	· ·· ·	11=0	0101	1111	1111	1111	245.25
06	Movei00_8_403	16.0/36	00=0	0000	0001	0=00	00=1	· ·· ·	1111	1100	1111	11=0	209.25
07	Ufim802	15.5/36	0000	0001	1000	000=	1010	0000	· ·· ·	1111	111=	11=1	191.50
08	Hermann 1.9	10.5/36	00=0	=10=	0000	01=1	0000	0011	0000	· ·· ·	1010	10=0	179.50
09	Chispa403-p4	7.5/36	0000	=000	00=0	=00=	0000	0000	000=	0101	· ·· ·	1011	94.75
10	Aice_0.99.2	6.5/36	0000	00=0	0=00	0000	0000	00=1	00=0	01=1	0100	· ·· ·	91.00

180 games played / Tournament is finished

Tester comments :

Gajendra Singh:

No surprises but still a "wow" performance by Spike 1.2 Turin .

Hermann 1.9, Chispa 4.03 and Aice 0.99.2 are relegated to the second division .

GOLDENLEAGUE TOURNAMENT 020607 40/4’

Logo Homepage

Tournament

Name

Authors

Tester Group

Country

superchessengine.com

Golden League

Denis P. Mendoza

SuperLeague

Engine Testing Conditions

CPU

GUI

Opening Book

Memory

total

Memory

hash

EGTB

(3-4-5)

EGTB

cache

Time

Tournament

type

Round

Total Games

Athlon 1700 XP

Arena 1.1

HS-Book.abk

512 mb

32 mb

3-4

40/4’

Round Robin

More Testing conditions:

Top 10 free uci engines as of Feb. 3, 2006. Tournament book configurations on default parameters of Harry Schnapp tournament book (last release), opening lines fixed to 10 plies (or 5-moves), ponder-off, bitbase endgame support for GambitFruit

Chess engines:

Rybka, Toga (Bryan Hoffman), Spike, Fruit, GB Fruit, Naum, List, Ruffian, Glaurung plus new addition of Movei (all using default settings)

Date:

2007.02.06

Pgn ():

Tester Homepage

http://www.superchessengine.com/

Results:

Golden League Tournament 4

Rank

Engine

Score

S-B

Rybka v1.0 Beta.w32

13.5/18

· ·· ··

1.5/2

2.0/2

0.0/2

0.5/2

2.0/2

105.00

TogaII121

12.5/18

0.5/2

· ·· ··

1.5/2

1.0/2

2.0/2

1.5/2

2.0/2

98.75

Naum2

11.5/18

0.5/2

· ·· ··

1.5/2

0.5/2

1.5/2

2.0/2

1.5/2

86.50

Fruit_21

11.0/18

0.0/2

1.0/2

0.5/2

· ·· ··

1.0/2

2.0/2

1.5/2

2.0/2

79.00

List512

10.5/18

2.0/2

1.0/2

0.5/2

1.0/2

· ·· ··

0.5/2

1.0/2

1.5/2

2.0/2

1.0/2

88.75

Spike1.2

10.0/18

1.5/2

0.0/2

1.5/2

1.0/2

1.5/2

· ·· ··

0.5/2

1.0/2

2.0/2

84.75

GambitFruit4bx

8.0/18

0.0/2

0.5/2

0.0/2

1.0/2

1.5/2

· ·· ··

1.0/2

2.0/2

1.5/2

55.75

Ruffian_105

6.0/18

0.0/2

0.5/2

0.0/2

0.5/2

1.0/2

· ·· ··

1.0/2

2.0/2

40.00

Glaurung 121-32bit

3.5/18

0.0/2

0.5/2

0.0/2

0.5/2

0.0/2

1.0/2

0.0/2

1.0/2

· ·· ··

0.5/2

29.50

Movei00_8_403

3.5/18

0.0/2

0.5/2

0.0/2

1.0/2

0.0/2

0.5/2

0.0/2

1.5/2

· ·· ··

25.50

Tester comments:

Denis P. Mendoza

To give more work to the engines, the opening book lines were limited to 5-moves. This will show more accuracy on each engines play from start to finish.

As usual, Rybka took the top spot with 13.5 points but was marked by two remarkable losses to our darkhorse, List 512. TogaII still was relentless taking solo 2^nd place. Naum made some impressive performance mostly on long routes taking 3^rd place with 10.5 points. From the new ranking list, Spike and GambitFruit dropped from the top 5 engines. The new addition Movei seems to be way below this league in last place, but let’s see how it performs in the next tournaments to come.

There’s only one peculiar observation. A great percentage of the games were won by white pieces with 46.7%. Black wins and draws were tied at 26.7%.

Scorpio 1.9 vs The King 3.33

Logo Homepage	Tournament Name	Authors	Tester Group	Country
superchessengine.com	Scorpio vs The king	Gajendra Singh	Superleague

Engine testing condition

Cpu

GUI

Opening Book

Memory

total

Memory

hash

EGTB

(3-4-5?)

EGTB

cache

Time

Tournament

type

Round

Total games

P4 2.4

Arena1.99b3

1 Gb

64Mo

3-4-5

16 Mo

40/4'

repeating

Round robin

100

more conditions :

100 games between the 2 top 100 % winboard engine

Chess Engines :

Scorpio 1.9 vs The King 3.33

date:

2-2-07

Pgn

scorpiovsTheking replay soon... I update only biweekly

Tester Homepage:

superchessengine.com

Final Results:

Scorpio 1.9 vs The King 3.33

Rank	Engine	Score	S-B
1	Scorpio 1.9	56.5/100	2457.75
2	The King 3.33	43.5/100	2457.75

100 games played / Tournament is finished

Tester comments :

Gajendra Singh:

After Scorpio had taken care of the strongest free winboard only engines in an earlier tournament it was now time for it to try and cross the final frontier : commercial The King 3.33 which has remained the strongest winboard only engine for quite some time. Although I did consider Scorpio 1.9 as slight favourite I did not expect it to win with the ease it finally did - a convincing 56.5-43.5 win for Scorpio 1.9 . Although some "The King" personalties may be stronger than the default personality but

1. There is no consensus on the strongest one

2. IMO the scoreline is fairly convincing ( which is not same as saying that the winner would remain same in a 500 game match also :) ) .
Gajendra .

Winboard Engine premier

Logo Homepage	Tournament Name	Authors	Tester Group	Country
superchessengine.com	Winboard Engine premier	Gajendra Singh	Superleague

Engine testing condition

Cpu

GUI

Opening Book

Memory

total

Memory

hash

EGTB

(3-4-5?)

EGTB

cache

Time

Tournament

type

Round

Total games

P4 2.4

Arena1.99b3

1 Gb

64Mo

3-4-5

16 Mo

40/4'

repeating

Round robin

180

more conditions :

Chess Engines :

winboard engines

date:

30-1-07

Pgn

winboard1er replay soon... I update only biweekly

Tester Homepage:

superchessengine.com

Final Results:

   Winboard Engine Premier-2

Rank	Engine	Score	Wi	Sp	Na	Fr	Th	Ru	Sc	Ph	Kt	De	S-B
01	WildCat_7	22.5/36	· ·· ·	1=10	=10=	1===	01=1	01==	1111	==11	0111	1000	391.50
02	Spike1.2	22.0/36	0=01	· ·· ·	0=1=	1==0	1==1	1=00	=011	11==	=111	1110	374.00
03	Naum 2.0	21.0/36	=01=	1=0=	· ·· ·	1111	1=01	110=	0100	1110	=10=	10==	374.25
04	Frenzee 300	19.5/36	0===	0==1	0000	· ·· ·	0===	1=01	11=1	===1	=1=1	1110	328.00
05	Thinker 4.7a	17.5/36	10=0	0==0	0=10	1===	· ·· ·	1==0	011=	=10=	=100	==11	305.75
06	Ruffian_105	17.0/36	10==	0=11	001=	0=10	0==1	· ·· ·	100=	=100	01==	=110	308.50
07	Scorpio 1.84	15.5/36	0000	=100	1011	00=0	100=	011=	· ·· ·	=0=0	=01=	11=1	270.75
08	Pharaon 3.51	15.5/36	==00	00==	0001	===0	=01=	=011	=1=1	· ·· ·	010=	0101	270.25
09	Ktulu 4.2	15.0/36	1000	=000	=01=	=0=0	=011	10==	=10=	101=	· ·· ·	0=10	264.25
10	Delfi 5.0	14.5/36	0111	0001	01==	0001	==00	=001	00=0	1010	1=01	· ·· ·	270.25

180 games played / Tournament is finished
Table created with: Arena 1.99beta3

Tester comments :

Gajendra Singh:

Two surprises . Wildcat 7 won the tournamrnt ahead of favourites Spike 1.2 and Naum 2.0 . Also Scorpio which regularly finished third in winboard tournaments behind Spike and Naum ended up in the bottom half with the new versio 1.84 and in fact avoided relegation only on the basis of superior tiebreak score. needless to say it does not mean, or even indicate that the new version is weaker . In fact in a winboard engine only tournament Scorpio 1.84 won commandingly ahead of Wildcat 7.Pharaon 3.51 continues to underperform and was again relegated to second division.

SILVERLEAGUE TOURNAMENT 012307 40/4’

Logo Homepage

Tournament

Name

Authors

Tester Group

Country

superchessengine.com

Silver League

Denis P. Mendoza

SuperLeague

Engine Testing Conditions

CPU

GUI

Opening Book

Memory

total

Memory

hash

EGTB

(3-4-5)

EGTB

cache

Time

Tournament

type

Round

Total Games

Athlon 1700 XP

Arena 1.1

Noomen Test Suite

512 mb

32 mb

3-4

40/4’

SWISS

100

More Testing conditions:

51^th to 70^th rank free UCI engines. Tournament book configurations on default parameters of Noomen Test Suite 2006. Ponder off

Chess engines:

Madeleine, Monarch, Alichess, Anechka, Gibbon, BBChess, WJChess, Feuerstein, Lime, BigLion, Firefly, Bibichess, Marvin, Smash, Eagle, Adam, Alex, FreeChess, Lime, Clueless, plus guest engine Cheops 1.1 to complete the pairings.

Most of the engines where updated based on released versions on the net or on their respective sites. Only compatible versions of these releases were used in the tournament.

Date:

2007.01.23

Pgn (link to your homepage or here):

Tester Homepage

http://www.superchessengine.com/

Results:

RESERVE LEAGUE TOURNAMENT

Rank

Engine

Score

AliUci406

7.5/10

ｷｷｷｷｷ

1.0/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

39.25

BBChess1.01_32

7.0/10

0.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

1.0/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

37.50

Anechka_008

7.0/10

1.0/1

0.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

30.00

Adam_30

6.5/10

0.0/1

1.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

34.50

Gibbon_213d

6.5/10

0.0/1

1.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

1.0/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.5/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

33.75

Monarch_17

6.5/10

1.0/1

0.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

27.50

WJChess_164

6.0/10

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.0/1

1.0/1

26.00

Madeleine_0.2

6.0/10

0.0/1

0.5/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.5/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

25.25

Smash_v103

5.5/10

1.0/1

0.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

33.00

Eagle075

5.0/10

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

28.25

BigLion_223w

5.0/10

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

1.0/1

0.5/1

25.00

FireFly_220P3

5.0/10

0.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

1.0/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

13.50

BiBiChess 0.5

4.5/10

0.5/1

0.0/1

0.5/1

0.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

1.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

19.50

Feuerstein_045b2

4.5/10

0.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.0/1

1.0/1

15.75

Lime_v62

4.5/10

0.0/1

1.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.5/1

1.0/1

14.50

Clueless_134

4.5/10

0.0/1

0.5/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.0/1

1.0/1

11.50

FreeChess2_16auci

4.0/10

0.0/1

0.5/1

0.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.0/1

1.0/1

11.00

Alex_178

2.5/10

0.0/1

0.5/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.0/1

1.0/1

6.25

Marvin_13

2.0/10

0.0/1

1.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

1.0/1

2.50

Cheops_11

0.0/10

0.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.00

Tester comments:

Denis P. Mendoza

Alichess 4.06 by Anton Lindenmair (Germany) proved its supremacy in this tournament garnering 7.5 points ahead of 2^nd and 3^rd placer BBChess 1.01 and Anechka 0.08 both with 7.0 ponts.

The next ranks were shared respectively by Adam 3.0, Gibbon 2.13d and Monarch 1.7, each having 6.5 points. The results were well distributed among the players on half-point differences.

On the average, we could assume that half of the league is about ± 50 ELO points in range.

Of the top 5 engines, only Gibbon, Alichess and Anechka stood their ground. BBChess 1.01 was a truly better upgrade than previous (v0.99).

Madeleine 0.2 could only salvage 8^th place with 6 points (not bad!) and was replaced by Adam 3.0 on the Magic 5 list.

Our guest engine Cheops 1.1UCI, a Linux based experimental AI chess engine by Tristan Miller (compiled for Windows for UCI support by Michael Yee),

succumbed to last place with a winless record. At least it played a smooth game of chess and following the protocol rules by the book.

Another interesting observation is the high percentage of white wins of 60% (blsck wins = 27%, draws = 13%)

and an even usage of opening lines from ECO A to ECO D of about 22 % to 25%. (with ECO E usage of only 7%). I

n the past leagues, using the Noomen Test Suite, engines usually avoid the ECO A lines.

BIG OPEN

Logo

Homepage

Tournament Name

Authors

Tester Group

Country

superchessengine.com

BIG OPEN

Daniel Charles E.Ly

Superleague

Engine testing condition

Cpu

GUI

Opening Book

Memory

total

Memory

hash

EGTB

(3-4-5??)

EGTB

cache

Time

Tournament

type

Round

Total games

Centrino 1.86 Ghz

Fritz9

Sheebar.ctg

1 Gb

64Mo

3-4-5

16 Mo

3mn+2s

>5 mn

Swiss/open

640

more conditions :
Chess Engines :	78 free chess engines (66 UCI+12WB) + 2 commercials
date:	01-07
Pgn	decsuperleague.pgn + replay all game on replay zone (update biweekly)
Tester Homepage:	superchessengine.com
Results:
BIG OPEN
Tester comments :	Daniel Charles : This Open was a long tournament :( (640 games!!! ) The winner was Rybka 14/16 Fritz 9 was second (I think Fritz is very good for fast time control).Toga completed the Podium with 11.5/16.Naum and The King did a good tournament. Arasan was a surprising 6th !!! Delfi 5.0 was the first 100% winboard engine with 10/16... Like I began the tournament end december , I used the old crafty, the old Movei and even the old Scorpio , now all these strong engine were updated ... A funny thing is that I didn t see that I put 2 times Aice in this tournament :D ( 0.99.2 and 0.98) In a 16 rounds open everything could happen . Gambit Fruit (a Top 5 UCI engine) finished only 26 th ... Jonny didn t play at his real level in this tournament. Next Big tournament will be on a Quad CPU.

Top 10 Chess 960

Logo Homepage	Tournament Name	Authors	Tester Group	Country
superchessengine.com	chess 960	Gajendra Singh	Superleague

Engine testing condition

Cpu

GUI

Opening Book

Memory

total

Memory

hash

EGTB

(3-4-5?)

EGTB

cache

Time

Tournament

type

Round

Total games

P4 2.4

Arena

1 Gb

64Mo

3-4-5

16 Mo

40/4'

repeating

Round robin

360

more conditions :

Chess Engines :

10 FRC engines

date:

15-1-07

Pgn

FRCpremier.pgn replay soon... I update only biweekly

Tester Homepage:

superchessengine.com

Final Results:

   FRC-Premier 2

Rank	Engine	Score	Na	Gl	Sp	Ph	Jo	Uf	Mo	Fr	Go	Ba	S-B
01	Naum2.0_frc	27.0/36	· ·· ·	==00	==11	0=10	1111	0111	1111	=111	=1=1	1111	426.25
02	Glaurung1.2.1_PG	26.5/36	==11	· ·· ·	1=00	1110	=10=	1=11	0111	==11	111=	1111	424.75
03	Spike1.2	26.0/36	==00	0=11	· ·· ·	1111	011=	100=	0=11	1111	1111	1111	405.75
04	Pharaon 3.51	18.0/36	1=01	0001	0000	· ·· ·	0010	1001	0==0	0=11	1111	1111	269.75
05	Jonny 2.83	17.0/36	0000	=01=	100=	1101	· ·· ·	=001	01=1	000=	=011	=111	269.25
06	Ufim802	16.0/36	1000	0=00	011=	0110	=110	· ·· ·	1001	=0=1	=101	0001	282.00
07	Movei00_8_397	16.0/36	0000	1000	1=00	1==1	10=0	0110	· ·· ·	11=0	0100	1=11	250.00
08	Frenzee 300	15.5/36	=000	==00	0000	1=00	111=	=1=0	00=1	· ·· ·	1100	11=1	228.25
09	Gothmog-frc_1.0_beta7	11.5/36	=0=0	000=	0000	0000	=100	=010	1011	0011	· ·· ·	=10=	181.75
10	Baron_17_FRC	6.5/36	0000	0000	0000	0000	=000	1110	0=00	00=0	=01=	· ·· ·	95.25

180 games played / Tournament is finished

with Movei 8 383

FRC-Premier 2

Rank	Engine	Score	Sp	Na	Gl	Ph	Jo	Uf	Fr	Mo	Go	Ba	S-B
01	Spike1.2	27.5/36	· ·· ·	==00	0=11	1111	011=	100=	1111	1111	1111	1111	426.75
02	Naum2.0_frc	26.5/36	==11	· ·· ·	==00	0=10	1111	0111	=111	11=1	=1=1	1111	416.00
03	Glaurung1.2.1_PG	25.5/36	1=00	==11	· ·· ·	1110	=10=	1=11	==11	10==	111=	1111	412.25
04	Pharaon 3.51	21.0/36	0000	1=01	0001	· ·· ·	0010	1001	0=11	1111	1111	1111	302.75
05	Jonny 2.83	17.0/36	100=	0000	=01=	1101	· ·· ·	=001	000=	101=	=011	=111	270.00
06	Ufim802	16.0/36	011=	1000	0=00	0110	=110	· ·· ·	=0=1	==01	=101	0001	284.50
07	Frenzee 300	16.0/36	0000	=000	==00	1=00	111=	=1=0	· ·· ·	1001	1100	11=1	232.50
08	Movei00_8_383	13.0/36	0000	00=0	01==	0000	010=	==10	0110	· ·· ·	=010	1=11	193.00
09	Gothmog-frc_1.0_beta7	11.0/36	0000	=0=0	000=	0000	=100	=010	0011	=101	· ·· ·	=10=	166.25
10	Baron_17_FRC	6.5/36	0000	0000	0000	0000	=000	1110	00=0	0=00	=01=	· ·· ·	93.00

180 games played / Tournament is finished

Tester comments :

Gajendra Singh:

In a very tight 1-2-3 finish Naum 2.0 FRC won ahead of Glaurung 1.2.1 and Spike 1.2 .In fact in the original tournament in which Movei00_8_383 had played , Spike had won the tournament but then I replayed Movei's games with Movei00_8_397 which changed the tournament winner .By thwe way the new Movei version gained full 3 points over the previous version which had scored 13/36 .
Gajendra

Winboard

Logo Homepage	Tournament Name	Authors	Tester Group	Country
superchessengine.com	Winboard	Gajendra Singh	Superleague

Engine testing condition

Cpu

GUI

Opening Book

Memory

total

Memory

hash

EGTB

(3-4-5?)

EGTB

cache

Time

Tournament

type

Round

Total games

P4 2.4

Winboard X

1 Gb

64Mo

3-4-5

16 Mo

40/4'

repeating

Round robin

120

more conditions :
Chess Engines :	4 best 100% winboard engines
date:	15-1-07
Pgn	winboarddivision3.zip replay soon... I update only biweekly
Tester Homepage:	superchessengine.com
Final Results:
[Results] 1=Scorpio 1.84 35.5/60 2=WildCat_7 28.5/60 3=Prodeo 1.2 28/60 4=Frenzee 3.00 28/60
Tester comments :	Gajendra Singh: I got the idea of this tournament after new Scorpio 1.84 seemed to underperform in a tournament (Winboard premier division) which was surprisingly won by Wildcat 7. Although I was convinced that this was most likely due to the stastical vagaries of small tournaments this gave me the opportunity to run a tournament I wanted to run for some time now- a tournament between best free winboard only engines . Although Wildcat 7 did take the lead for some time in the middle of the tournament in the end it was really no contest . The winner and still the best free winboard only engine- Scorpio 1.84. Gajendra P.S.- In fact currently the only commercial Winboard only engine that I know of is The King.Scorpio 1.84 versus The King 3.33 will be very interesting and , at least in my opinion, very very close .

Promotional League

Logo Homepage	Tournament Name	Authors	Tester Group	Country
superchessengine.com	Promotional	Denis P.Mendoza	Superleague

Engine testing condition

Cpu

GUI

Opening Book

Memory

total

Memory

hash

EGTB

(3-4-5)

EGTB

cache

Time

Tournament

type

Round

Total games

Athlon 1700 XP

Arena 1.1

Noomen Test Suite

512mb

32 mb

3-4

8 Mo

40/4'

repeating

Swiss

100

more conditions :

31^th to 50^th rank free uci engines. Tournament book configurations on default parameters of Noomen Test Suite 2006

Chess Engines :

Dragon, Diablo, Arion, Hermann, Terra, Nejmet, Gaia, Ayito, Chispa, Atlas, Queen, Sjeng, Muse, Homer, Deep Patzer, Leila, Tornado, Little thought, Hamsters. Removed Aice 0.98 from previuous list as new version Aice 0.992 was already included in the tournament. To avoid “Bye”, Crafty 21.4 was added as guest engine, also to check its performance between the 2454 – 2305 ELO UCI engines.

date:

15-01-07

Pgn

bronze tournament 2.rar+ replay all game on replay zone (update biweekly)

Tester Homepage:

superchessengine.com

Results:

Promotional League Tournament 3

Rank

Engine

Score

DeepPatzer 3.8

8.0/10

ｷｷｷｷｷ

1.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

40.00

Nejmet_307

7.0/10

0.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

35.50

Crafty-21.4-blended

7.0/10

0.5/1

1.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

0.5/1

35.00

Terra 3.4

6.5/10

0.0/1

1.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.5/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

29.50

Queen 3.09

6.0/10

0.0/1

0.5/1

0.0/1

0.5/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

1.0/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

31.25

Dragon_46

6.0/10

0.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

1.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

29.50

SJENG 12.13

6.0/10

0.0/1

1.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

1.0/1

0.0/1

0.5/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

27.25

Ayito_0.2.994

5.5/10

0.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

19.00

Gaia 3.5

5.0/10

1.0/1

0.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

0.5/1

0.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

1.0/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

30.00

Homer 1.1beta

5.0/10

0.0/1

1.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.5/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

0.5/1

21.25

Muse0899b

5.0/10

0.0/1

0.5/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

1.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

21.00

Hermann 19

5.0/10

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

1.0/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

20.00

Arion 1.7

4.5/10

0.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

17.50

Tornado_1_0_mainz

4.0/10

0.0/1

0.5/1

0.0/1

0.5/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.0/1

1.0/1

19.75

Chispa 403-blend

4.0/10

0.0/1

0.5/1

0.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.0/1

1.0/1

15.00

Diablo_051

4.0/10

0.5/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.5/1

1.0/1

0.5/1

15.00

Hamsters 0.0.6

3.5/10

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

0.5/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.0/1

1.0/1

15.50

Leila_042u

3.5/10

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

1.0/1

12.50

Atlas220uci

2.5/10

0.0/1

0.5/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

0.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

0.0/1

12.00

LittleThought-0.98

2.0/10

0.0/1

0.5/1

0.0/1

0.5/1

0.0/1

1.0/1

ｷｷｷｷｷ

8.00

100 games played / Tournament finished
Tournament start: 2007.01.13, 21:07:29
Latest update: 2007.01.15, 15:33:02

Tester comments :

Denis Mendoza

Victories were well-distributed among the topnotch players, but this time Deep Patzer snatched first place with 8.0 points. Nejmet showed them that it is still a consistent contender in this category with 7.0 points. Crafty took 3^rd place (also with 7.0 points) followed by 4^th placer Terra with 6.5 points. From the top five of the latest rating list only, Nejmet and Terra maintained their standings. A lot of Deep Patzer’s wins were made using the ECO D opening lines, which I noticed to be its main preference. It’s also good to see few draws in the tournament (about 18%). Crafty could have took the top spot if it had won its 4 drawn games.

XMAS super opening Books tournament

Logo

Homepage

Tournament Name

Authors

Tester Group

Country

Opening Books

Daniel Charles E.Ly

Superleague

Engine testing condition

Cpu

GUI

Opening Book

Memory

total

Memory

hash

EGTB

(3-4-5??)

EGTB

cache

Time

Tournament

type

Round

Total games

Centrino 1.86 Ghz

Fritz9

11 different books

1 Gb

64Mo

3mn +1s

>4 mn

220

more Testing conditions :	11 books .ctg Takker tour II , Fritz 9 book, The Turk book, Paradigm, gen18, for all book optimize (defaults) if I don't talk about the setting Fritz9 = settings = optimization (defaults) Takker tour II+III beta (William Fuller) = optimization defaults + learning to 0 Takker tourIII beta (William Fuller) = optimization defaults + learning to 0 The Turk book settings (Djorge Vidanovic) = min games = 1, up to moves 60 moves, learning to 0 Paradigm settings (Dr Wael Deeb) = min games = 2 perfect 11 & 12 (Sedat Candaz) = optimization default Gen 18 (Norm Pollock) = min games = 8 Engine (my small book) = min games = 1, up to moves 60, learning to 0 Computer (my medium book) = optmization default + learning to 0 Sheebar (Aung Thura)= optimization default + learning to 0
Chess Engines :	Pro Deo 1.2 via wb2uci
date:	23-12-06
Pgn (link to your homepage or here)	decsuperleague.pgn
Tester Homepage:	superchessengine.com
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Tester comments :	Daniel Charles : This time Sheebar.ctg won, this book is from Aung Thura ( 525 Mo!!!) very impressive performance 27.5/40 !!! 2 nd my small book engine.ctg (18 mo :D ), maybe again a lucky 2nd place for the second times :D , I expected my computer.ctg perform better than engine.ctg.... :( This time Takker Books didn t win but show strong performance with the 3rd and 4th place . All William Fuller books' are very good. 5th my computer.ctg ... it perform below my expectation (however, this books is very young 2 weeks .... and It needs to be more tuned for the next time ) 6th The turk.ctg from Pr Vidanovic , this one is a very strong and respected book 7th Paradigm.ctg from Dr Wael Deeb , this time paradigm.ctg did a lot better than expected , it show some good opening and was the only book that won against the sheebar.ctg book !!! 8th Fritz 9 book is a very famous and strong book, good for both side 9th Perfect 11 from Sedat Candaz , his book is from GM over 2650 elo, very good to test eng vs eng 10 th Gen 18 from Norm Pollock , this is a solid and good book for medium and long games 11 th perfect12.ctg didn t do a good tournament , It was strange that the book perform below perfect11.ctg ?? I think it was just bad luck and the book should be better .

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