Chess Engines Diary

Prophet - winboard chess engine Author - James Swafford, Rating CEDR=2370   v.4.4: Maintenance release. Updated build system, switching from plain make to cmake. Formatted / cleaned up code. Prophet 4.4 - download Individual statistics: Prophet 4.3: Opponent Score +- Games Cosette 5.1 4.5/6 +3 6 Games Anka 0.6.3 4/6 +2 6 Games Popochin 4.3 3.5/5 +2 5 Games Barbarossa 0.6.0 3.5/5 +2 5 Games Loki 3.5.0 2.5/5 +0 5 Games Zevra 2.5 1.5/5 -2 5 Games Blunder 8.5.5 1/5 -3 5 Games Captain 2.0 4/4 +4 4 Games FoxSEE 8.2 3/4 +2 4 Games Fornax 4.0 2.5/4 +1 4 Games Admete 1.5.0 2/4 +0 4 Games Supernova 2.4 1.5/4 -1 4 Games Devel 4.0.2.3 1/4 -2 4 Games Vafra 3.3.2 1/4 -2 4 Games Asymptote 0.8 0/4 -4 4 Games Caissa 1.2 0/4 -4 4 Games Seer 2.6.0 0/4 -4 4 Games QuintBot 1.0.0 3/3 +3 3 Games Knightx 3.5 2/3 +1 3 Games Raven 1.30 1/3 -1 3 Games Our social media: Twitter         Facebook      Instagram      Pinterest      Reddit  Tumblr   

  Chess engine UCI -  Molybdenum Author:rn5f107s2 v.4.1: This version fixed a crash that has existed since last release, sorry for taking so long to resolve that, this version also features some minor Elo gain over v4.0 but probably nothing too significant. Molybdenum 4.0 results: Opponent Score +- Games Sloth 2.0 15/15 +15 15 Games Critter 1.6a 8.5/12 +5 12 Games Mufasa 0.2.1 JA 11/11 +11 11 Games Protej 0.6.7 10/10 +10 10 Games Simbelmyne 1.10.0 8.5/10 +7 10 Games Pedantic 2.0.0 5.5/10 +1 10 Games RubiChess 20240817 1/10 -8 10 Games Bgrassy dev.5f18d51 JA 6/6 +6 6 Games Kobol 1.1 6/6 +6 6 Games Zangdar 2.30 5.5/6 +5 6 Games Quanticade 0.8 JA 2.5/6 -1 6 Games Reckless 0.7.0 2/6 -2 6 Games Quanticade Aurora 0.8 2/6 -2 6 Games SF PB 200824 1/6 -4 6 Games YuliGM STRONG 180824 0.5/6 -5 6 Games Stockfish 20240820 Ivec 0/6 -6 6 Games Saturn 1.3 2.5/4 +1 4 Games Stockfish 20240820 1/4 -2 4 Games CorChess 20240823 0.5/4 -3 4 Games SF-PRO 23.08.2024 0.5/4 -3 4 Games HypnoS legacy 180824 0.5/4

The test tournament for mid-range chess engines was won by Obsidian 14.01 SE . And it beat the second-placed Dragon 3.3 engine. The 3rd place was taken by the Alexandria 7.1.0 engine. We are making all 1050 games available for download. The next tests will be available on our website soon. Chess Engines Diary Team GPU NVIDIA  RTX 3060 ti. GUI-Banksia, For Every Engine only 1 CPU and 512 Hashtables, Book - 4 GM mvs book,  6TBs. 🕒🕒Time 3'+3"   1050 tournaments games download    💾 All games CEDR  480.735 games download  01.11.2024   @chessenginesdiary P Engine Score (Tie) +/-/= 1: Obsidian 14.01 SE 80.5 / 140 5492.50 (+24 -3 =113) 2: Dragon 3.3 80.0 / 140 5496.50 (+27 -7 =106) 3: Alexandria 7.1.0 77.5 / 140 5335.50 (+16 -1 =123) 4: Caissa 1.21 77.5 / 140 5312.50 (+20 -5 =115) 5: Berserk 13 76.

The Obsidian 14 engine is doing very well, winning another test tournament of chess engines for Android. In second place is the VafraCfish 12.6 engine, and in third place is the ShashChess 36 engine. Stockfish 17 has problems with this tempo and loses games on time. Chess Engines Diary Team 🕓 Time 3' 💻Tablet - Smasung Galaxy TAB S6 Lite, 4GB RAM 💾    132 games from the tournament download    🖬 GUI-Chess Tournament for Android, Country - Poland, City -  Malbork 💾 All CEDR games for Android  23.184 games download  (3')  P Engine CEDR Score (Tie) Chg +/-/= 1: Obsidian 14 3380 19.0 / 22 182.25 +33 (+17 -1 =4) 2: VafraCfish 12.6 3310 17.5 / 22 160.00 +33 (+14 -1 =7) 3: ShashChess 36 3425 16.5 / 22 142.75 +0 (+13 -2 =7) 4: Stockfish 17 3538 15.0 / 22 126.50 -33 (+12 -4 =6) 5: Plentychess 3.00 JA 3281 14.0 / 22 113.25 +4

Barbarossa - UCI chess engine Author: Nicu Ionita   Rating CEDR=2588 v. 0.7.0: This release is only a few Elo rated over the previous released version, but has a few improvements, a few of which make the play of the engine more stable: implements selective depth (UCI) implements minor promotions corrections in search and quiescent search new evaluation terms and better evaluation weights improvements and optimizations in search and evaluation a few small improvements in move ordering and pruning Barbarossa 0.7.0 - download

Interesting game: BigYuli GM 221024 - Stockfish 17 (0-1). By Chess Engines Diary , Temp 3'+3"

The 2nd league of CEDR chess engines has ended. The rofChade 3.1 engine won by a landslide. The Stormphrax 6.0.0 engine came in 2nd place, and the Koivisto 9.2 engine came in 3rd. These three engines advanced to the 1st League. The 3rd League has already started, results will be available on our website soon. Chess Engines Diary Team 👍Promotion  to 1 league:  rofChade 3.1, Stormphrax 6.0.0, Koivisto 9.2 .  👎Relegation to 3 league:  Pawn 3.0 JA, Fire 9.3, Wasp 7.00 .  All CEDR  480.735 games download  (01.10.2024, 3'+3")  💾  480 games from the tournament download 👍 @chessenginesdiary Country - Poland, City -  Malbork   🕓 Time 3'+3"  💻Asus Zenbook, AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX, RAM 32,0 GB 🖬 GUI-Banksia Tech table: Engine KN/move NPS dep/mov time/mov mov/gam time/gam fails Akimbo 1.0.0 15146 3334699 30.1 4.5 91.7 416.3 Altair 7.1.5 JA 15147 3055317 29.3 5.0 85.8 425.3 Arasan 24.2.2 16605 3419161 31.5 4.9 90.8 440.8 Booot 7.3 15099 3250742 39.7 4.6 92.5 429.7 D

Another match between very strong chess engines Big Yuli GM 221024 - Stockfish 17 ended in a draw. But this time both engines won one game and the remaining 498 games ended in a draw. All CEDR   480.735 games download   (01.11.2024, 3'+3")  💾   500 games from the tournament download 👍 @chessenginesdiary Country - Poland, City -  Malbork   🕓 Time 3'+3"  💻HP ENVY i5-8250U 8GB RAM 🖬 GUI-Fritz 17 Pl Engine Score +/-/= 1-2 Big Yuli GM 221024 250.0 / 500 (+1 -1 =498) 1-2 Stockfish 17 250.0 / 500 (+1 -1 =498)

Stockfish 20241031 won another big test tournament of strong chess engines. In second place was the Brainlearn 30 engine and in third place was the ShashChess 37 engine. The Quanticade Electra 0.9 engine made its debut in the group and although it took last place, it did well. More tests soon on the website. GPU NVIDIA  RTX 3060 ti. GUI-Banksia, For Every Engine only 1 CPU and 512 Hashtables, Book - 4 GM mvs book,  6TBs. 🕒🕒Time 3'+3"   1200 (!) tournaments games download    💾 All games CEDR  480.735 games download  01.11.2024   @chessenginesdiary P Engine Score (Tie) +/-/= 1: Stockfish 20241031 56.5 / 96 2613.25 (+17 -0 =79) 2: Brainlearn 30 56.0 / 96 2623.75 (+16 -0 =80) 3: ShashChess 37 55.0 / 96 2574.50 (+15 -1 =80) 4: Yuli GM Pro 16 55.0 / 96 2570.25

The product is only available as a download! ChessBase is the personal chess database that has become the standard worldwide. For everyone who enjoys chess and wants to play successfully in the future. This applies to the world champion as well as the club player or the chess friend next door. New in Chess Base 18: MORE INSPIRING -  through player style analysis and search for strategic topics MORE INTEGRATIVE -  through the integration of Lichess and the API to chess.com MORE INFORMATIVE -  through the comparison of Lichess accounts INDIVIDUALLY PERFORMANT AND MOBILE -  through new cloud engine technology and  ChessBase mobile app - PLAYER STYLE ANALYSIS: What makes your next opponent tick? ChessBase 18 recognizes from the game material "Manic attacker who risks everything", "Strong endgame expert with great fighting spirit", "Exchanger with too high a draw rate" and much more. - SEARCH FOR STRATEGIC TOPICS: Find games with a gripping king attack or on th