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Stockfish 17 wins TOP Engines Tournament by CEDR 26.10.2024

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Stockfish 17 won a large test tournament of the most powerful chess engines. The Artemis 3TR engine came in 2nd. The Rems M-091024 and Yuliana 5.50 engines came in 3rd and 4th. A total of 1200 games were played! More results coming soon - check our website. Chess Engines Diary Team All CEDR  449.407 games download  (01.10.2024, 3'+3")  💾  1200 (!) games from the tournament download 👍 @chessenginesdiary Country - Poland, City -  Malbork   🕓 Time 3'+3"  💻Dell G15 SE, i7-11800H RAM 16,0 GB 🖬 GUI-Banksia Tech table: Engine KN/mov NPS dep/mov time/mov mov/gam time/gam fails Alexander 3.0 20026 3694357 46.7 5.4 65.4 354.8 Alexander Santiago 21205 3879423 46.7 5.5 64.8 354.1 Artemis 3TR 8657 1615856 48.6 5.4 68.0 364.4 Berserk 13 20030 4348382 49.5 4.6 96.1 442.7 Big Yuli GM 221024 10594 1921170 49.0 5.5 62.4 344.0 Brainlearn 30 10408 1945166 48.9 5.4 67.3 360.2 Brainlearn Santiago 10516 1922124 47.8 5.5 64.6 353.6 CorChess 202410...

CorChess 20241022 wins New Engines Test, by CEDR 26.10.2024

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The latest test tournament featured 26 new chess engine versions and a total of 650 games played. The winner was the CorChess 20241022 engine, followed by the Stockfish 20241012 Ivec engine in second place. Third and fourth places were secured by the Brainlearn Santiago and Yuliana 5.50 engines, respectively. Today, the website will be updated with tests from the upcoming tournaments. Chess Engines Diary Team All CEDR  449.407 games download  (01.10.2024, 3'+3")  💾  650 games from the tournament download 👍 @chessenginesdiary Country - Poland, City -  Malbork   🕓 Time 3'+3"  💻HP Pavilion i5-1035G1 8GB RAM 🖬 GUI-Banksia Tech table: Engine KN/mov NPS dep/mov time/mov mov/game time/game fails Alexander 3.0 5410 898650 32.0 6.0 52.6 316.5 Alexander Santiago 5410 928145 28.6 5.8 57.8 336.9 Artemis 3TR 1947 309346 31.0 6.3 46.2 290.7 Big Yuli GM 221024 2230 358113 32.3 6.2 45.7 284.8 Brainlearn 30 2180 352063 31.7 6.2 47.6 294.5 Bra...

Obsidian 14.01 SE wins Middle Class Engines Tournament (Tests by Jörn Gronemann, 2024.10.28)

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Eight "Middle Class" chess engines recently competed in a tournament where the Obsidian 14.01 SE engine emerged as the decisive winner. The second place was secured by the Alexandria 7.1.0 engine, followed by the Berserk 13 engine in third place. A new CEDR ranking list and additional tournament results are expected to be published shortly. 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"   560 tournaments games download    💾 All games CEDR  449.407 games download 01.10.2024    @chessenginesdiary P Engine Score (Tie) +/-/= 1: Obsidian 14.01 SE 77.5 / 140 5313.50 (+17 -2 =121) 2: Alexandria-7.1.0 74.0 / 140 5110.75 (+12 -4 =124) 3: Berserk 13 72.5 / 140 5036.25 (+7 -2 =131) 4: Caissa 1.21 72.0 / 140 4999.75 (+9 -5 ...

En Croissant - The Ultimate Chess Toolkit

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En Croissant - a n open-source, cross-platform chess GUI that aims to be powerful, customizable and easy to use. Very easy, within 2 minutes I automatically installed several chess engines - you can see it in the screenshot. Game Analysis Get a detailed analysis report of your games, including a graph of the evaluation over time, a heatmap of the board and a list of the best moves. Personal database Do you play both in Lichess and Chess.com? With En Croissant, you can easily import your games from both platforms and keep them up to date in a single place. Download manager En Croissant comes with a built-in download manager that allows you to get the latest engines and databases with a single click. En Croissant download

Official Stockfish pre-release: Stockfish 20241031 (for Windows, Android and MacOs)

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Official  Stockfish dev-20241031 Pre-release RatingChess Engines Diary CEDR=3768 Stockfish 20241031 files: stockfish-windows-x86-64, stockfish-windows-x86-64-avx2, stockfish-windows-x86-64-avx512, stockfish-windows-x86-64-bmi2, stockfish-windows-x86-64-sse41-popcnt, stockfish-windows-x86-64-vnni256, stockfish-windows-x86-64-vnni512: Stockfish prerelease 20241031 download Stockfish prerelease 20241031 for Android download Stockfish prerelease 20241031 for MacOs Stockfish prerelease 20241031: Remove moveCountPruning in search.cpp The definition of moveCountPruning may cause confusion by implying that the variable is unconstrained. However, once it is set to true, it should not be reset to false, otherwise it would break the internal logic of MovePicker. Several patches have overlooked this constraint. For example: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/671e7c0486d5ee47d953d226 https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/66a1de7b4ff211be9d4eccea The implementation approach was su...

Stockfish 17 wins 1League CEDR edition 07/2024, by Chess Engines Diary

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The 1st League of the strongest CEDR chess engines has ended. The Stockfish 17 engine won again, but the advantage was not big. In 2nd place the Dragon 3.3 engine and in 3rd place the Obsidian 14.0 engine. The 2nd league started today - the results on our website will be posted soon. Chess Engines Diary Team 👎Relegation to 2 League:  Seer 2.8.0, Motor 0.7.0, Velvet 8.0.0 .  All CEDR  449.407 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 P Engine Score (Tie) +/-/= 1: Stockfish 17 34.5 / 60 1017.75 (+9 -0 =51) 2: Dragon 3.3 33.0 / 60 971.50 (+6 -0 =54) 3: Obsidian 14.0 32.5 / 60 961.25 (+5 -0 =55) 4: Caissa 1.20 32.0 / 60 952.00 ...

Obsidian 14.0 wins Android Chess Engines Tournament by CEDR 2024.10.30

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The Obsidian 14.0 engine won another tournament of chess engines for Android. In second place the SF-PRO engine 18-09-2024 and in 3rd-4th place the CorChess 240823 and Caissa 1.20 engines. More tests for Android soon on our website. Chess Engines Diary Team 🕓 Time 3' 💻Tablet - Smasung Galaxy TAB S6 Lite, 4GB RAM 💾    110 games from the tournament download    🖬 GUI-Chess Tournament for Android, Country - Poland, City -  Malbork 💾 All CEDR games for Android  22.144 games download  (3')  P Engine CEDR Score (Tie) +/-/= 1: Obsidian 14.0 3380 15.0 / 20 134.75 (+10 -0 =10) 2: SF-PRO 18.09.2024 2950 14.0 / 20 130.50 (+10 -2 =8) 3: CorChess 240823 3575 13.5 / 20 118.50 (+10 -3 =7) 4: Caissa 1.20 3480 13.5 / 20 116.75 (+9 -2 =9) 5: Clover 6.1.2.4 JA 3391 12.5 / 20 104.50 (+8 -3 =9...

Donut dev 38ee0c6 JA wins Young Talents, by CEDR 2024.10.26 - 30

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The Donut dev 38ee0c6 JA chess engine won the "Young Talents Tournament". This is a compilation prepared by Jim Ablett. In 2nd place the Myrddin 0.91 engine and in 3rd place the Rengar 2.1.1 engine. "Young talents" - these are new versions of amateur engines or completely new engines. We will continue these tests. All CEDR games  449.407 download   💾  272 games from the tournament download @chessenginesdiary Country - Poland, City - Malbork  🕓 Time 3'+3"  💻Asus Zenbook, AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX, RAM 32,0 GB 🖬 GUI-Arena P Engine CEDR Score (Tie) Chg +/-/= 1: Donut dev 38ee0c6 JA 2400 28.5 / 32 401.75 +134 (+27 -2 =3) 2: Myrddin 0.91 2629 26.5 / 32 360.25 +22 (+23 -2 =7) 3: Rengar 2.1.1 2657 26.5 / 32 356.75 +13 (+25 -4 =3) 4: Eveann 2.1 2215 24.5 / 32 304.75 +166 (+22 -5 =5) 5: Perseus 0...