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Stockfish 20240518 wins 1 League CEDR edition 04/2024, 2024.05.20-21

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This time, the 1st League of the best (TOP-64) chess engines was won by Stockfish 20240518. This compilation looks really good and there is clear progress.
In 2nd place was CorChess 20240502 and the bronze medal for the ShashChess 35.3 engine.
The Lc0 BT4 engine crashed in as many as 16 games. The Banksia GUI doesn't seem to support Lc0 engines well.


🥇ShashChess 34.5 🥈CorChess 20240103 🥉Stockfish 20231231
Relegation to the 2 League: Igel 3.5.0, Velvet 7.3.0, Lc0 BT4.
Country - Poland, City - Malbork
🕓 Time 3'+3" 💻Dell G15 SE, i7-11800H RAM 16,0 GB 🖬 GUI-Banksia

 All CEDR 333.448 games download (01.05.2024 - 3'+3") 
💾 240 games from the tournament download 👍 @chessenginesdiary 

Tech table:

EngineKN/moveNPSdep/movtime/movmov/gametime/gamefails
Berserk 1321082447180550.44.792.4435.6
Caissa 1.1822303464655538.14.889.4429.3
Chess-System-Tal-2.0010860241625025.44.585.2382.8
Clover 6.1.24 JA20744440625937.74.794.6445.4
CorChess 202405029252184832337.85.076.7383.9
Dragon 3.3 by Komodo11187261917738.14.3116.4497.3
Dragon by Komodo free19011442472434.34.3111.1477.5
Igel 3.5.56816160042631.64.395.8408.2
Lc0 BT459568.15.268.9361.416
Obsidian 12.021378483275937.64.4107.4475.1
rofChade 3.118541443598127.94.288.2368.5
RubiChess 2024011218865391759129.84.891.4440.1
ShashChess 35.39976206394239.14.883.3402.5
Stockfish 2024051810175212608047.14.884.4403.9
SugaR AI SE15009324940350.04.696.5445.7
Velvet 7.3.019340409179728.74.792.0434.7

Today start 2 League CEDR ed 04/2024

League – strongest chess engines CEDR TOP 64
1 League Edition 04/2024 - 3’+3” Rating Score note
1. Stockfish 2024051807 3761 19.5 / 30
2. Corchess 20240502 3770 19.0 / 30
3. ShashChess 35.3 3747 18.0 / 30
4. Chess-System-Tal-NNUE-2 3643 17.5 / 30
5. SugaR Al SE 3727 16.5 / 30
6. Dragon 3.3 3712 16.5 / 30
7. RubiChess 20240112 3650 16.5 / 30
8. Obsidian 12 3698 16.0 / 30
9. Berserk 13 3700 15.0 / 30
10. Dragon free 3615 14.5 / 30
11. Caissa 1.18 3680 14.5 / 30
12. Rofchade 3.1 3620 14.5 / 30
13. Clover 6.1.24 JA 3645 13.0 / 30
14. Igel 3.5.5 3590 13.0 / 30 relegation
15. Velvet 7.3.0 3581 8.5 / 30 relegation
16. Lc0 BT4 *crash 3715 7.5 / 30 relegation





2 League Edition 04/2024 – 3’+3” Rating Score note
1. Alexandria 6.1.0 3669

2. Slowchess 2.9 3554

3. Koivisto 9.20 Impan 3608

4. Seer 2.8.0 3635

5. Tenax 1.0 3500

6. Viridithas 12.0.0 3576

7. Stormphrax 4.1.0 3556

8. Akimbo 1.0.0 3539

9. Arasan 24.2.2 3582

10. Altair 7.0.3 JA 3536

11. Texel 1.11 3490

12. Nemorino 6.00 3491

13. Booot 7.3 3539

14. Peacekeeper 2.40 3518

15. Lizard 10.3 3587

16. Fire 7.3 3584



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