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Thanks to Uri for Movei 386 UCI . This is just a small Gauntlets (100 games).

After 100 games It is too early to draw some conclusion . However, Movei 386  was doing very well vs strong UCI engines  .It is not so far from Aristarch 4.50 level (2600 elo) .

average 50% versus strong UCI engines

Movei scored very well vs Pepito, Ufim , Tao(80%!!!) and Yace

Movei lost badly vs Pharaon , Ktulu (only 25% :( )

It fought like a warrior vs Aristarch,Anmon,SOS and Colossus (40 to 45% ) 

Movei UCI belong to this strong silver league top 10 to 20 best free UCI when it will be release (actually we don t know 100% for sure what is the best Movei and  we will help Uri test his beta ).

It is always interesting for us to test a very strong beta and new UCI engine .

Thanks to Uri who spend time to add the UCI protocol to his very strong chess engine and to send us Movei 386 to test

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The winner with a large margin was Rybka 1.0 beta 16.5/18 and no loss .

Fruit and his 2 twin brothers (Toga and GB Fruit ) scored the same total of points 12.5pts and shared 2nd place.

The top 10 engines were from the golden league . Spike didn t do well on 5 mn games, probably a lot better with a long time control , His loss vs pharaon and dragon cost him to be out of the 5 engines in this tournament

10 th to 20 th are were only separated by 2 pts !!!

The only strange thing is Zappa who lost some games on time or lost badly with fast time control... Of course Zappa 1.1 is a lot stronger at long time control .

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and old GB fruit and also Aristarch just to eval their strengh vs new engines 

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No problem here for GB Fruit .

Pro Deo 1.2 is a very strong Wb engine. I tested a intermediate version of Movei 383 UCI , this is not the best Movei , Gauntlet about the new Movei 386 UCI is coming soon probably a top 15  UCI engines .

Booot 4.12 did a good tournament. Alfil show a strong improvement.

This tournament was difficult for Firefly because It played against engines 100 to 500 elo stronger than him .However in his league/division Firefly perform well 

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Unlike the last time this time I have decided to divide the FRC engines in two divisions . The idea behind this is to let the engines of comparable strength play against each other . From the engines who took top ten places in the first tournament Gothmog_frc was excluded because

1. Glaurung from the same author is already playing in the premier division and 2. Gothmog is no longer being developed so I thought it was only fair to give another engine the chance to play in the premier division .

This meant that Movei 00_8_383 got in. My next tournament will be for the second division and top two finishers will replace the bottom two finishers of this tournament in the next premier division tournament . The placings were according to expectations ;almost too much so . Ufim scored slightly more than expected, Movei slightly less . I have no explanation for this except that perhaps this was just due to statistical noise or because 40/4 time control on a fast computer is not same as 40/4 on a slow computer like mine . Comments , questions and suggestions are welcome as always .

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This is just a small test .However, Pro Deo was doing good .It came 3rd just behind Glaurung and Naum .

Scorpio is one of the free winboard engine (probably soon the best free winboard engine)

Crafty was better than I expected . Jonny didn't do a good tournament, but this verson is an old Jonny .The lastest Jonny is private .

I tested the new Romichess and It was very promising managed some very good draws versus strong engine like Naum, Scorpio, Aristarch

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I took the 14 French UCI engines and I made a Swiss tournament . each UCI engine met 1 time the others. The french tourney didn t deliver real surprise , the 3 strongest was on the final 3.

Fruit 2.1 won easily the French Tournament for UCI engine  12.5/13 !!!! (only Dragon draw Fruit)

Pharaon was second with 11.5/13 and Anmon the French Champion 06 came third with 10.5/13

French UCI engines are very strong with 6 UCI engines among the top 30 free UCI .

NSVChess 0.14 had his first 1/2 point.

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1. I tried to include all free FRC engines . Firefly was missing because the latest version does not support FRC and I could not get the earlier version . If anybody can suggest any other free FRC engine I will be grateful .

2. Only Ufim, Hermann , Big Lion and Taktix played as UCI engines . The rest have problem with castling because incomplete implementation by Arena of the uci protocol in FRC.

3. Glaurung , Homer , Ayito, Tornado and Hamsters used polyglot ( hence the PG in the engine name ). The rest played as winboard engines .

4. I plan to run more Chess 960 tournaments so any suggestions to improve it or make it more interesting are most welcome .

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Takker tour III beta , Fritz 9 book, The Turk book, my engine book, perfect 12

for all book optimize (defaults) if I don't talk about the setting

• Takker tour III beta+ Fritz9 +perfect12= settings = optimization (defaults)
• The Turk book  settings (Djorge Vidanovic) =   min games = 1, up to moves 60 moves, learning to 0%
• my engine book=min games = 1 ,up to 100 moves learn= 0% :D
• my engine book is from .pgn games on playchess.com with average elo 2750 engine room

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Rk	LOGO/Book	Author	Mo	W	D	L	% Wh	%Bl	Total %	Pts W	Pts B	Pts /80	elo
1	TAKKER TOURIII	Takker/W. Fuller	360	33	36	11	79	49	64	31.5	19.5	51	+135
2			12	24	39	17	61	48	54	24.5	19	43.5	+81
3		Sedat Candaz	60	19	37	24	56	38	47	22.5	15	37.5	+39
4	Fritz 9 book (commercial)			13	46	21	51	39	45	20.5	15.5	36	+29
5		Djordje Vidanovic	26	16	32	32	49	31	40	19.5	12.5	32	0

    Program                          Elo    +   -   Games   Score   Av.Op.  Draws

  1 Takker Tour III beta           : 2935   65  54    80    63.7 %   2837   45.0 %
  2 Engine book                    : 2881   74  47    80    54.4 %   2851   48.8 %
  3 Perfect 12                     : 2839   49  76    80    46.9 %   2861   46.2 %
  4 Fritz 9 book                   : 2829   41  74    80    45.0 %   2864   57.5 %
  5 Turk book 1                    : 2800   57  69    80    40.0 %   2871   40.0 %

Games        :    200 (finished)

White Wins   :     71 (35.5 %)
Black Wins   :     34 (17.0 %)
Draws        :     95 (47.5 %)
Unfinished   :      0

White Perf.  : 59.2 %
Black Perf.  : 40.8 %

ECO A =      1 Games ( 0.5 %)
ECO B =    127 Games (63.5 %)
ECO C =     18 Games ( 9.0 %)
ECO D =     28 Games (14.0 %)
ECO E =     26 Games (13.0 %)

Individual statistics:

1 Takker Tourbook book      : 2935   80 (+ 33,= 36,- 11), 63.8 %

Engine book                   :  20 (+  4,= 11,-  5), 47.5 %
Perfect 12                    :  20 (+ 10,=  9,-  1), 72.5 %
Turk book 1                   :  20 (+ 12,=  6,-  2), 75.0 %
Fritz 9 book                  :  20 (+  7,= 10,-  3), 60.0 %

2 Engine book               : 2881   80 (+ 24,= 39,- 17), 54.4 %

Perfect 12                    :  20 (+  4,=  8,-  8), 40.0 %
Takker Tourbook book          :  20 (+  5,= 11,-  4), 52.5 %
Turk book 1                   :  20 (+ 11,=  7,-  2), 72.5 %
Fritz 9 book                  :  20 (+  4,= 13,-  3), 52.5 %

3 Perfect 12                : 2839   80 (+ 19,= 37,- 24), 46.9 %

Engine book                   :  20 (+  8,=  8,-  4), 60.0 %
Takker Tourbook book          :  20 (+  1,=  9,- 10), 27.5 %
Turk book 1                   :  20 (+  6,=  8,-  6), 50.0 %
Fritz 9 book                  :  20 (+  4,= 12,-  4), 50.0 %

4 Fritz 9 book              : 2829   80 (+ 13,= 46,- 21), 45.0 %

Engine book                   :  20 (+  3,= 13,-  4), 47.5 %
Perfect 12                    :  20 (+  4,= 12,-  4), 50.0 %
Takker Tourbook book          :  20 (+  3,= 10,-  7), 40.0 %
Turk book 1                   :  20 (+  3,= 11,-  6), 42.5 %

5 Turk book 1               : 2800   80 (+ 16,= 32,- 32), 40.0 %

Engine book                   :  20 (+  2,=  7,- 11), 27.5 %
Perfect 12                    :  20 (+  6,=  8,-  6), 50.0 %
Takker Tourbook book          :  20 (+  2,=  6,- 12), 25.0 %
Fritz 9 book                  :  20 (+  6,= 11,-  3), 57.5 %

William fuller (Takker) book is very strong, this beta book won the book tournament. This book is very impressive , scored 72.5 % perfect 12, 75% vs the Turk, 60 % vs Fritz9book. Really the strongest book I ever tested for online games & blitz .

Engine book, I didn t expected that the book come second ,Maybe it was lucky (because i m not an opening book author and won't be). this a very small book only 12 Mo (100 % engines and probably 90% Rybka and average 2750 elo (online players) :D). Thanks to William & Dagh (their 2 teams were finalist in the last Pal/Css) for their advices and some strong online engine room players for their .pgn. This book will be release probably end December, beginning January. I will try to have a 20 Mo opening book & tuned the book a little bit more.

Perfect 12  is a strong book, it only lose the match vs Takker & draw strong book like Fritz 9 and The Turk and of beat the engine book . If you didn t have this book, I recommend you to download this  good & strong opening book. Probably the winner if Takker Book didn t play this tourney

Fritz 9 is probably one of the best commercial opening book. It scored well with white. We will see soon if the Fritz 10 opening book is better .

The Turk book is a strong book. It was in the top 3 in my last 2 tournaments. It beat one more time Fritz 9 book and draw perfect 12, unfortunately it lost too much points vs Takker & engine book. I was a little bit disappointed because Pr Vidanovic book is one of my favorite opening book.

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round 1:  the big war was between Amyan and queen, However Queen finally won

2nd round: no surprise

1/8 final : close fight between List and Ruffian.

1/4:

One more time GB Fruit won the match vs his twin brother Fruit .

Ruffian was on fighting mode and lost only in the tie break.

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Toga won easily vs Spike 1.2  (7.5 - 2.5 !!!!!)

Rybka has some difficulties with GB fruit but qualified for the final (6-4)

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the 2 best Free UCI met one more time in a finale . This time Rybka was the strongest (6.5-3.5)

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Group A:

first round , no surprise .

in the second round the only surprise was the victory from Ufim over Anmon.

3rd round(1/8 final)

Slowblitz beat naum 2.0 after 2 tie break.

1/4 final :

It was a easy win from Toga over Slow Blitz and spike over Glaurung (4-0!!!)

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Abrok & pepito shared the 1st place .

This is a tourney with very closed competitor, from Abrok (1st) to Dragon (6th) only 1 pts.

Arasan & twisted Logic were doing good in their new league (division)  .I played with the old Booot , I think that the new would do a little better . ( My fault )

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Rybka 1.0 won one more time a tournament .

Just behind the winner, Fruit, GB Fruit, Spike and Toga ... not really surprising :D

Ktulu did a very good tournament with 12/19

Pharaon 3.51 didn't show that now it is a top engine .

Aristarch was a very strong top chess engine 1 or 2 years ago ...but opponents became stronger and stronger ... It needs a new youth .

Anmon 5.60 the chess engine French champion for the last 2 years did a catastrophic tournament with 4.5/19 .

Abrok 5.0 was invited in this tournament and opponents were too strong.

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Anechka was undefeated in this tournament with 16/17 and 15 victories !!!!

Adam ,Freechess,Smash,Alex,Clueless and Lime did a good tournament .

New Firefly did a tournament under his standard .Roce was a little bit better than against strong opponent

In the bottom NVSChess didn't score points ??