Engine tournament of May 2023

[massimilianogoi]

As usual, any few months I organize an engine tournament.

I pick up the best engines (thanks Sedat for the list) and make them clash.

This time I wanted to try something more Sedat Canbaz-oriented, alhtough I admit to not have still fully grasp the method: 1 thread for any engine, many games, time 1+2, concurrential interfaces. In other words, more than one engine is playing at the same time. In this way we should have a result sooner.

What I still not have understood is how to cross data to make any engine compared to each other...

There were two simultaneous tournaments, one with all the games draw, and the other with the latest Stockfish beta winning and Crystal 5 KWK doing the punchball, another thing I didn't understood. This engine has a sharp analysis and it solves complicated puzzles like no one else before, how comes that it loses so much versus the others?

Mister Zerbinati was so gentle to give me a copy of his SugaR XPro that will enter in the tournament.

Great performances by the last Stockfish beta and the last BrainLearn, good performances by Stockfish Polyfglot 15.1.


Participants:

- Stockfish,dev-20230507-65e215
- Brainlearn 24
- Stockfish Polyglot 15.1,64-bit
- Crystal 5 KWK BMI2
- Polyfish 230510
- CorChess 4,dev-20230508-3473a0
- Blue Marlin 15.7 64-bit BMI2
- SugaR XPrO 140523 (to join)


Results:

Engines tournament tranche A, Blitz 1.0 2023 (partial)

1 Stockfish,dev-20230507-65e215 21.0 - 21.021.5 - 20.522.5 - 18.5** 65.0/125
2 Brainlearn 24 21.0 - 21.021.5 - 19.521.5 - 20.5 ** 64.0/125
3 Stockfish Polyglot 15.1,64-bit BMI2 20.5 - 21.519.5 - 21.522.5 - 19.5 ** 62.5/125
4 Crystal 5 KWK BMI2 18.5 - 22.520.5 - 21.519.5 - 22.5 ** 58.5/125

Engines tournament tranche B, Blitz 1.0 2023

1 Polyfish 230510 37.5 - 37.537.5 - 37.5** 75.0/150 5625.00
2 CorChess 4,dev-20230508-3473a0 37.5 - 37.537.5 - 37.5 ** 75.0/150 5625.00
3 Blue Marlin 15.7 64-bit BMI2 37.5 - 37.537.5 - 37.5 ** 75.0/150 5625.00

Games:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/gfrnxo7n ... 9.rar/file

[janus]

As usual, any few months I organize an engine tournament.

I pick up the best engines (thanks Sedat for the list) and make them clash.

This time I wanted to try something more Sedat Canbaz-oriented, alhtough I admit to not have still fully grasp the method: 1 thread for any engine, many games, time 1+2, concurrential interfaces. In other words, more than one engine is playing at the same time. In this way we should have a result sooner.

What I still not have understood is how to cross data to make any engine compared to each other...

There were two simultaneous tournaments, one with all the games draw, and the other with the latest Stockfish beta winning and Crystal 5 KWK doing the punchball, another thing I didn't understood. This engine has a sharp analysis and it solves complicated puzzles like no one else before, how comes that it loses so much versus the others?

Mister Zerbinati was so gentle to give me a copy of his SugaR XPro that will enter in the tournament.

Great performances by the last Stockfish beta and the last BrainLearn, good performances by Stockfish Polyfglot 15.1.


Participants:

- Stockfish,dev-20230507-65e215
- Brainlearn 24
- Stockfish Polyglot 15.1,64-bit
- Crystal 5 KWK BMI2
- Polyfish 230510
- CorChess 4,dev-20230508-3473a0
- Blue Marlin 15.7 64-bit BMI2
- SugaR XPrO 140523 (to join)


Results:

Engines tournament tranche A, Blitz 1.0 2023 (partial)

1 Stockfish,dev-20230507-65e215 21.0 - 21.021.5 - 20.522.5 - 18.5** 65.0/125
2 Brainlearn 24 21.0 - 21.021.5 - 19.521.5 - 20.5 ** 64.0/125
3 Stockfish Polyglot 15.1,64-bit BMI2 20.5 - 21.519.5 - 21.522.5 - 19.5 ** 62.5/125
4 Crystal 5 KWK BMI2 18.5 - 22.520.5 - 21.519.5 - 22.5 ** 58.5/125

Engines tournament tranche B, Blitz 1.0 2023

1 Polyfish 230510 37.5 - 37.537.5 - 37.5** 75.0/150 5625.00
2 CorChess 4,dev-20230508-3473a0 37.5 - 37.537.5 - 37.5 ** 75.0/150 5625.00
3 Blue Marlin 15.7 64-bit BMI2 37.5 - 37.537.5 - 37.5 ** 75.0/150 5625.00

Games:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/gfrnxo7n ... 9.rar/file

Any chance of a PGN when done please - easier to check quickly with text editor .. at least for me ..

[massimilianogoi]

Ok. There were no pgn archives because this is just a temporary outcome.

Any chance of a PGN when done please - easier to check quickly with text editor .. at least for me ..

[massimilianogoi]

Second attempt (with Arena):
Participants:

- Stockfish,dev-20230507-65e215
- Brainlearn 24
- Stockfish Polyglot 15.1,64-bit
- Crystal 5 KWK BMI2
- Polyfish 230510
- CorChess 4,dev-20230508-3473a0
- Blue Marlin 15.7 64-bit BMI2
- SugaR XPrO 140523


Results (updated 21-05-23):
1 Stockfish_23050720_x64_bmi2 39.5/77
2 BrainLearn24-x86-64-bmi2 39.5/77
3 Blue Marlin 15.7 64-bit BMI2 39/77
4 SugaR XPrO 140523 bmi2 39/77
5 Polyfish_230510_x86-64-bmi2 38.5/77
6 Stockfish Polyglot 15.1 64-bit 38.5/77
7 CorChess 4,dev-20230508-3473a0 37.5/77
8 Crystal 5 KWK BMI2 36.5/77


Played: 309 games on 588.

[massimilianogoi]

The tournament is over.

Result:

1 Stockfish,dev-20230507-65e215 51.0 %
2 Polyfish 230510 51.0 %
3 SugaR XPrO 140523 50.7 %
4 Brainlearn 24 50.7 %
5 Stockfish Polyglot 15.1,64-bit 50.3 %
6 Blue Marlin 15.7 64-bit BMI2 50.3 %
7 CorChess 4,dev-20230508-3473a0 49.7 %
8 Crystal 5 KWK BMI2 46.3 %

Total: 588 games. Download here