October

CHESS ENGINES TESTS

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Golden+silver

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Tournament Name

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superchessengine.com

Golden+silver

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

Perfect11.ctg

1 Gb

128Mo

3-4-5

16 Mo

4mn+2s

>360s

Swiss

190

more conditions :
Chess Engines :	20 top UCI engines
date:	31-10-06
Pgn	superleaguepgn (update weekly) + replay all game on replay zone (update weekly)
Tester Homepage:	superchessengine.com
Results:
Top 20 UCI engines
Tester comments :	Daniel Charles : 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.

Beginer+reserve 2

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superchessengine.com

Beginner+reserve 2

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

Perfect11.ctg

1 Gb

64Mo

3-4-5

16 Mo

4mn+1s

>360s

Swiss

154

more conditions :
Chess Engines :	18 UCI engines from beginner league+ some from the reserve league
date:	31-10-06
Pgn	superleaguepgn (update weekly) + replay all game on replay zone (update weekly)
Tester Homepage:	superchessengine.com
Results:
Beginner+reserve2
Tester comments :	Daniel Charles : 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 ??

New UCI engines tournament

Logo Homepage	Tournament Name	Authors	Tester Group	Country
superchessengine.com	New UCI engines	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

nunn-selectABCD.pgn

1 Gb

64Mo

3-4-5

16 Mo

40/4'

repeating

Round robin

264

more conditions :

Chess Engines :

all new UCI engines

date:

26-10-06

Pgn

superleaguepgn (2 Mo) coming soon replay too... I update only weekly

Tester Homepage:

superchessengine.com

Final Results:

New_uci_engine

Rank	Engine	Score	He	Ar	De	Bo	Al	Di	Li	Li	Fi	BB	Sm	Ro	S-B
01	Hermann 1.9	34.5/44	· ·· ·	010=	0110	0=11	1111	1001	1111	1=11	1111	1111	0111	1111	652.75
02	Arasan 95	33.0/44	101=	· ·· ·	1=10	==01	1010	11==	=011	111=	=111	11=1	1111	1111	627.50
03	DeepPatzer 3.80	30.5/44	1001	0=01	· ·· ·	=110	11=0	0101	1==1	0=11	1111	=111	1110	1111	572.75
04	Booot411	30.5/44	1=00	==10	=001	· ·· ·	=01=	1110	0111	1=11	1111	1010	1111	1111	567.00
05	Alfil 6.9.1	28.0/44	0000	0101	00=1	=10=	· ·· ·	==1=	11=1	1011	10=1	1110	1111	1111	501.00
06	Diablo051	27.5/44	0110	00==	1010	0001	==0=	· ·· ·	0111	101=	11=1	1101	1111	1111	488.00
07	LittleThought-0.97	22.0/44	0000	=100	0==0	1000	00=0	1000	· ·· ·	0100	1111	1111	1111	1111	330.00
08	Lime_v62	18.0/44	0=00	000=	1=00	0=00	0100	010=	1011	· ·· ·	0=0=	1=11	1001	1011	318.00
09	FireFly213	13.0/44	0000	=000	0000	0000	01=0	00=0	0000	1=1=	· ·· ·	=10=	0101	11=1	184.75
10	BBChess0_99b	12.0/44	0000	00=0	=000	0101	0001	0010	0000	0=00	=01=	· ·· ·	1001	=011	214.75
11	Smash 1.0.3	12.0/44	1000	0000	0001	0000	0000	0000	0000	0110	1010	0110	· ·· ·	1111	163.00
12	Roce350	3.0/44	0000	0000	0000	0000	0000	0000	0000	0100	00=0	=100	0000	· ·· ·	42.50

Tester comments :

Gajendra Singh:

A tight win for Hermann 1.9 . Arasan 9.5 led almost throughout the tournament but a littlle bit of slip-up
in the end ( coupled with a late surge by Hermann ) cost it the first place . Booot was hot on the heels of the leaders all through the tournament but hit a bad patch towards the end . Roce is obviously at an elementary stage ( it even once let a clearly won game be drawn by threefold repetition because this rule is not in its internal knowledgebase ) . It also has problems with hash .

Gajendra .

Top 3 free UCI engines championship

Logo Homepage	Tournament Name	Authors	Tester Group	Country
superchessengine.com	Top 3 free UCI engines	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

nunn-selectABCD.pgn

1 Gb

64Mo

3-4-5

16 Mo

40/15'

repeating

Round robin

150

more conditions :	tests about the top 3 free uci engines to know
Chess Engines :	Toga 1.2.1 BH(# settings) , Rybka 1.0, Spike 1.2
date:	20-10-06
Pgn	superleaguepgn (2 Mo) coming soon replay too... I update only weekly
Tester Homepage:	superchessengine.com
Final Results:
Top 3 free UCI Engine Championship Engine Score 1: TogaII 1.2.1BH 62.0/100 2: Rybka v1.0 Beta.w32 50.0/100 3: Spike1.2 38.0/100 150 games played / Tournament finished Name of the tournament: Free Engine Championship -----------------Rybka v1.0 Beta.w32----------------- Rybka v1.0 Beta.w32 - Spike1.2 : 29.5/50 23-14-13 59% +63 Rybka v1.0 Beta.w32 - TogaII 1.2.1BH : 20.5/50 11-20-19 41% -63 -----------------Spike1.2----------------- Spike1.2 - Rybka v1.0 Beta.w32 : 20.5/50 14-23-13 41% -63 Spike1.2 - TogaII 1.2.1BH : 17.5/50 8-23-19 35% -108 -----------------TogaII 1.2.1BH----------------- TogaII 1.2.1BH - Rybka v1.0 Beta.w32 : 29.5/50 20-11-19 59% +63 TogaII 1.2.1BH - Spike1.2 : 32.5/50 23-8-19 65% +108
Tester comments :	Gajendra Singh: It was a run away win for modified Toga II 1.2.1 ( History margin = 75, rest default) but while these settings are probably stronger than default settings , they are most probably nowhere as strong as these results indicate . Toga II 1.2.1 had a very consistent tournament . In only 3 out of 25 positions did it score less than 50% and even in each of those three positions it scored 1.5/4 . And it finished very strongly scoring 6.5/8 in last two positions .Rybka 1.0 beta 32 bit had a slightly disappointing tournament scoring "only" 50% . Spike 1.2 was thrashed both by Toga II and Rybka but it is somewhat weaker than its opponents anyway .

6 Chessmaster 10th settings (King 3.33)

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superchessengine.com

Chessmaster

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

Perfect11.ctg

1 Gb

64Mo

3-4-5

16 Mo

4mn+2s

>360s

round robin

150

more conditions :
Chess Engines :	the King 3.33 with 6 # settings
date:	19-10-06
Pgn	superleaguepgn (update weekly) + replay all game on replay zone (update weekly)
Tester Homepage:	superchessengine.com
Results:
Program Elo + - Games Score Av.Op. Draws 1 CM10k Spock : 2777 85 76 50 63.0 % 2684 38.0 % 2 The King 3.33 Pestilence : 2717 98 62 50 53.0 % 2696 46.0 % 3 CM10k Schumacher : 2706 101 61 50 51.0 % 2699 46.0 % 4 CM10k King 3.33 Paralyse : 2682 66 98 50 47.0 % 2703 42.0 % 5 CM10k Milan 1.5 : 2682 55 98 50 47.0 % 2703 54.0 % 6 CM10k King 3.33 Patatas 3 : 2635 75 88 50 39.0 % 2713 38.0 % Stats with elostat 1.3 with Chessmaster(king 3.33) = 2700 elo Individual statistics: 1 CM10k Spock : 2777 50 (+ 22,= 19,- 9), 63.0 % CM10k King 3.33 Paralyse : 10 (+ 5,= 4,- 1), 70.0 % The King 3.33 Pestilence : 10 (+ 3,= 4,- 3), 50.0 % CM10k King 3.33 Patatas 3 : 10 (+ 7,= 3,- 0), 85.0 % CM10k Milan 1.5 : 10 (+ 4,= 5,- 1), 65.0 % CM10k Schumacher : 10 (+ 3,= 3,- 4), 45.0 % 2 The King 3.33 Pestilence : 2717 50 (+ 15,= 23,- 12), 53.0 % CM10k King 3.33 Paralyse : 10 (+ 4,= 3,- 3), 55.0 % CM10k King 3.33 Patatas 3 : 10 (+ 5,= 3,- 2), 65.0 % CM10k Spock : 10 (+ 3,= 4,- 3), 50.0 % CM10k Milan 1.5 : 10 (+ 0,= 7,- 3), 35.0 % CM10k Schumacher : 10 (+ 3,= 6,- 1), 60.0 % 3 CM10k Schumacher : 2706 50 (+ 14,= 23,- 13), 51.0 % CM10k King 3.33 Paralyse : 10 (+ 4,= 2,- 4), 50.0 % The King 3.33 Pestilence : 10 (+ 1,= 6,- 3), 40.0 % CM10k King 3.33 Patatas 3 : 10 (+ 3,= 5,- 2), 55.0 % CM10k Spock : 10 (+ 4,= 3,- 3), 55.0 % CM10k Milan 1.5 : 10 (+ 2,= 7,- 1), 55.0 % 4 CM10k King 3.33 Paralyse : 2682 50 (+ 13,= 21,- 16), 47.0 % The King 3.33 Pestilence : 10 (+ 3,= 3,- 4), 45.0 % CM10k King 3.33 Patatas 3 : 10 (+ 2,= 6,- 2), 50.0 % CM10k Spock : 10 (+ 1,= 4,- 5), 30.0 % CM10k Milan 1.5 : 10 (+ 3,= 6,- 1), 60.0 % CM10k Schumacher : 10 (+ 4,= 2,- 4), 50.0 % 5 CM10k Milan 1.5 : 2682 50 (+ 10,= 27,- 13), 47.0 % CM10k King 3.33 Paralyse : 10 (+ 1,= 6,- 3), 40.0 % The King 3.33 Pestilence : 10 (+ 3,= 7,- 0), 65.0 % CM10k King 3.33 Patatas 3 : 10 (+ 4,= 2,- 4), 50.0 % CM10k Spock : 10 (+ 1,= 5,- 4), 35.0 % CM10k Schumacher : 10 (+ 1,= 7,- 2), 45.0 % 6 CM10k King 3.33 Patatas 3 : 2635 50 (+ 10,= 19,- 21), 39.0 % CM10k King 3.33 Paralyse : 10 (+ 2,= 6,- 2), 50.0 % The King 3.33 Pestilence : 10 (+ 2,= 3,- 5), 35.0 % CM10k Spock : 10 (+ 0,= 3,- 7), 15.0 % CM10k Milan 1.5 : 10 (+ 4,= 2,- 4), 50.0 % CM10k Schumacher : 10 (+ 2,= 5,- 3), 45.0 %
Tester comments :	Daniel Charles : I tried 6 different settings for Chessmaster 10 th (the king 3.33) CM10k Spock settings from Wilhelm (CEGT) was the clear winner with 31.5 pts/50 & 63% & 77 elo points over the tournament average . Settings Pestilence(G.Banks), Schumacher, Paralyse & Milan are very close in strengh around 2700 elo Settings Patatas 3 didn t score well, only 39 %

Top free uci engine vs 2 famous commercial engine

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superchessengine.com

GoldenKing

Daniel Charles E.Ly

Superleague

Engine testing condition

Cpu

GUI

Opening Book

Memory

total

Memory

hash

EGTB

(3-4-5??)

EGTB

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Time

Tournament

type

Round

Total games

Centrino 1.86 Ghz

Fritz9

Perfect9.ctg

1 Gb

64Mo

3-4-5

16 Mo

4mn+2s

>360s

round robin

more conditions :
Chess Engines :	chessmater 10 th = the King 3.33 (pestilence), Rybka 1.0, Toga 1.2.1, GB Fruit, Spike 1.2,Fritz 9
date:	19-10-06
Pgn	superleaguepgn (update weekly) + replay all game on replay zone (update weekly)
Tester Homepage:	superchessengine.com
Results:

Tester comments :	Daniel Charles : Rybka .10 again won another tournament .spike was a serious opponent to win this tournament and finished second (with 3 wins vs rybka 1.0!!!). GB Fruit proved tournament after tournament that it is a very strong uci engine especially for Blitz . Toga (default settings) was below his high standart . Fritz 9 and The King are very strong engine, however, free UCI engine improved a lot last 2 years and the top 4 or 5 free UCI engine have at least their level and are even stronger !!!

2ND CCRL AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP (Division 1)

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Amateur

Ray Banks

CCRL

Engine testing condition

Cpu

GUI

Opening Book

Memory

total

Memory

hash

EGTB

(3-4-5??)

EGTB

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Time

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Round

Total games

3800+

Fritz 9

ECOplus3.ctg

2.0 Gb

128Mo

3-4-5

32 Mo

40/50’

repeating

round robin

462

more conditions :	ECOplus3.ctg with 12 move limit 40 moves in 50 minutes repeating (adapted to CCRL 40/40) 42 Rounds (2 Cycles)
Chess Engines :	22 free uci or winboard chess engine
date:	18-10-06
Pgn	http://kd.lab.nig.ac.jp/chess/discussion-board/download.php?id=2108
Tester Homepage:	http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/
Final Standing:
1. 30.5 - Glaurung 1.2.1 is CCRL amateur champion 2. 28.0 - Naum 2.0 3. 26.0 - Spike 1.2 Turin 4. 25.5 - Jonny 2.83 5. 23.5 - Scorpio 1.8 6. 23.0 - WildCat 6 7. 23.0 - Pharaon 3.5.1 8. 23.0 - Slow Chess Blitz WV2.1 9. 22.5 - Colossus 2006f 10. 22.5 - Pro Deo 1.1 11. 22.0 - The Baron 1.7.0 12. 20.5 - Thinker 4.7a 13. 20.5 - Petir 3.99d 14. 20.0 - Delfi 5.0 15. 19.5 - Movei 0.08.358 16. 19.5 - Aristarch 4.50 17. 17.0 - SOS 5.1 18. 16.5 - Pseudo 0.7c 19. 16.5 - Little Goliath Evolution 3.12 20. 15.5 - Crafty 20.14 21. 13.5 - Quark 2.35 22. 13.5 - AnMon 5.60 UCI chess engine Winboard chess engine 17^th to 22 -à 2^nd division next year The bottom six from this division will be relegated into next season's Division 2 tournament. Due to our policy of including updates of engines during these tournaments, we will be restructuring into three divisions of 16 engines next season in order to keep things moving along more quickly
Tester comments :	Ray Banks : I expected that Spike 1.2 Turin would take this one out, but nobody can argue with Glaurung 1.2.1’s convincing performance! Jonny 2.83 and The Baron 1.7.0 also performed above expectations in this tournament. I was personally disappointed that Pseudo 0.7c failed to make the cut. It’s highly probable that Aristarch 4.50, Thinker 4.7a and Quark 2.35 will not be included in the 3^rd Championships due to all being pre-2005 engines. If this occurs, a couple of the demoted engines might yet get a lifeline. Daniel Charles : Congratulation to Tord & Glaurung . This is he second tournament Glaurung won this week after Open war from Olivier Deville. Spike 1.2 was the clear favorite for the gold. It was A really strong performance from Glaurung. Naum 2 and Spike 1.2 completed the top 3 podiums. Jonny, Scorpio and Wildcat did a Strong tournament too.

Germany free uci engine Tournament

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superchessengine.com

Germany

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

Perfect9.ctg

1 Gb

64Mo

3-4-5

16 Mo

4mn+2s

>360s

see below

more conditions :	4 rounds for 1/8 & 1/4 finals, 10 rounds for semi final , 20 rounds for the big final
Chess Engines :	16 uci engine from Germany
date:	15-10-06
Pgn	superleaguepgn (update weekly) + replay all game on replay zone (update weekly)
Tester Homepage:	superchessengine.com
Results:
1/8 & 1/4 Finals 1/2 finals Super Final for Germany free UCI Blitz Tournament Winner Toga 1.2.1
Tester comments :	First round (1/8): The only surprise was Abrok 5.0 victory over Aristarch 4.50 3-2. 1/4 finals: Spike, Patzer, List & Toga qualified for the demi finals 1/2 finals : Spike 1.2 had no problem to beat Patzer 3.80 with 9-1 !!!! Toga qualified easily versus the free list 5.12 7-3 Final: Toga 1.2.1 won clearly versus Spike 1.2 with 12-8. Spike 1.2 is very closed to Toga strength it managed to draw 10 games/ 20 !!! however Toga won 7 games versus 3 for Spike . Winner : Toga 1.2.1 , It was playing with history threshold set at 75 ( the default value is 70) like Gajendra did for the top 3 UCI engine tournament

The Naum 2.0 welcoming party

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Homepage

Tournament Name

Authors

Partner Tester Group

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Naum 2.0

Graham Banks

CCRL

Engine testing condition

Cpu

GUI

Opening Book

Memory

total

Memory

hash

EGTB

(3-4-5??)

EGTB

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Time

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Dual amd MP2000

Zap!Chess

HS-Megabook.ctg

1 Gb

128Mo

3-4-5

32 Mo

40/68’

(adapted for CCRL 40/40)

round robin

36 rounds (4 cycles)

180

more conditions :

Ponder off and Learning off

Chess Engines :

Rybka 2.1c, Toga II 1.2, Loop 10.32f, CM10th Paralyse, Naum 2.0, Junior 10, Hiarcs X50 Hypermodern, Fritz 8 Bilbao, Ktulu 8.0, CM9000 Enforcer

date:

15-10-06

Pgn

http://kd.lab.nig.ac.jp/chess/discussion-board/download.php?id=2045

Tester Homepage:

http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/

Results:

Final Standings (/36)

Rk	Chess engine	pts /36
1	Rybka 2.1c	23.0
2	Toga II 1.2	22.5
3	Loop 10.32f	19.5
4	CM10th Paralyse	19.0
5	Naum 2.0	18.5
6	Junior 10	17.0
7	Hiarcs X50 Hypermodern	16.0
8	Fritz 8 Bilbao	15.0
9	Ktulu 8.0	15.0
10	CM9000 Enforcer	14.5

Tester comments