FCP-Tourney-2024-MA 44 of the available ~TOP-75 CPU-Engines at the start! It is to 95% the move-average that is decisive for the selection of engines. Please note (all results produced with resign = off): Move-average SWCR-2012 = 85,82 (Schach-Welt-Computer-Ratings, work for GM Jörg Hickl) Move-average FCP-Rating-List-2016 = 88,39 Move-average FCP-Tourney-2020 = 87,30 Move-average FCP-Tourney-2021 = 87,03 Move-average FCP-Tourney-2022 = 88,98 Move-average KI-Ratings-2022 = 90,37 Move-average FCP-Tourney-2024 = 95,20 *** UNFORTUNATELY, I have to changed different things immediately!! Move-average FCP-Tourney-2024-MA = 88,08 ... after Round 10 List of participating engines: Fastest available compile is used! NN = Neural-Network NNSV = Neural-Network file based on the work by Sergio Vieri (for Stockfish) Name of engine engine date commentaries 01. Alexandria 5.1.0 NN 2023-11-26 02. Altair 6.0.0 NN 2023-12-05 03. Andscacs 0.95 2018-12-17 HCE = Hand Crafted Evaluation 04. Arasan 24.0 NN 2023-08-12 05. BlackCore 6.0 NN 2023-03-02 06. Booot 6.4 2020-04-05 HCE = Hand Crafted Evaluation, superstar from FCP-Tourney-2020 07. Caissa 1.15 NN 2023-12-14 08. Carp 3.0.1 NN 2023-09-25 09. Chess.cpp 4.0 NN 2023-07-07 10. Chiron 5.01 2021-06-25 HCE = Hand Crafted Evaluation 11. Clover 6.1 NN 2023-12-12 12. CSTal 2.00 NN 2023-06-29 13. DanaSah 9.1 NN 2023-06-20 14. Devre 4.0 NN 2022-08-23 15. Dragon 3.3 NN (Komodo) 2023-10-02 16. Fire 9.2 NN 2023-11-12 17. Fizbo 2.0 NN 2017-12-18 18. Fritz 19 NN (Gingko) 2023-09-11 19. Hakkapeliitta 3.0 NNSV 2023-06-08 with "Raptor" Neural-Network by Sergio Vieri (Indonesian) 20. Hiarcs 15.2 (aggr.) 2023-07-01 HCE = Hand Crafted Evaluation, Personality: Aggressive 21. Igel 3.5.0 NN 2023-06-22 22. Laser 1.7 2019-02-07 HCE = Hand Crafted Evaluation 23. Mantissa 3.7.2 NN 2022-08-19 24. Marvin 6.2.0 NN 2023-07-09 25. Midnight 8 NN 2023-09-26 26. Minic 3.39 NN 2023-10-29 27. Nalwald 18 NN 2023-08-13 28. Nemorino 6.11 NN dev 2022-08-26 Net16 (same NN file used for older versions since 6.05) 29. Pawn 2.0 NN 2023-10-12 30. Rebel EAS NN 2023-08-20 31. Revenge 3.0 NN 2022-07-22 DrawScore = 0 (version with adjustable contempt) 32. RubiChess 20230918 NN 2023-09-18 33. Seer 2.8.0 NN 2023-12-31 34. Shredder 13 2016-10-20 HCE = Hand Crafted Evaluation 35. SlowChess Blitz 2.9 NN 2022-06-01 3380 Elo (FCP-Rating-List, ending on June 29th, 2022) 36. Stockfish 200731 dev 2020-07-31 HCE = Hand Crafted Evaluation (last dev with classical eval before first NN was available) 37. Texel 1.10 NN 2023-09-25 38. Tucano 11.00.1 NN 2023-07-14 39. Uralochka 3.40a NN 2023-11-03 40. Velvet 6.0.0 NN 2023-12-21 41. Wasp 6.63 NN dev 2023-12-02 the current dev version from Wasp 42. Wasp 6.50 NN 2023-02-28 43. Winter 2.0 NN 2023-01-28 44. Xiphos 0.6 2019-11-07 HCE = Hand Crafted Evaluation History: -------- December 02nd, 2023 - optimization UCI settings for 6-man syzygy SyzygyProbeDepth = 1 SyzygyProbeLimit = 6 - Hiarcs 15.2 will play with: Personality: Aggressive - Hakkapeliitta 3.0 NNSV will play with: PawnHash=16 December 05th, 2023 - I made an Elo average calculation for the 44 programs on start. Elo average = ~3280 (for Shredder's tournament *.html table). 1. Changed to 3282 January 02nd, 2024 2. Changed to 3307 January 14th, 2024 3. Changed to 3305 February 01st, 2024 4. Changed to 3303 February 07th, 2024 5. Changed to 3301 February 13th, 2024 6. Changed to 3298 February 19th, 2024 7. Changed to 3296 February 25th, 2024 December 06th, 2023 - time control changed to: 66 Minutes/Game + 6 Seconds/Move December 23rd, 2023 - Updates are possible during the first round is running: January 02nd, 2024 One round takes about ~6 days! 946 games : 166 games per day = 5.69 days December 24th, 2023 - I changed from Stockfish 13 NN to Stockfish 200731 dev (last dev with classical eval before first NN was available). After all I read on Stockfish dev site, contempt works better. December 25th, 2023 - Replay-Zone is ready, a wish by Norman Schmidt (Fire). https://www.amateurschach.de/fling/index.html - Engine logos added in the directory: _configuration-engines-ma/logos December 26th, 2023 - Opening book feobos-6m-v2.1.bkt is ready. Can be found in the directory: _bkt-opening-book Included are the work files: *.epd & *.pgn / Stockfish 16 NN analyses. December 27th, 2023 (20:00) - Tourney started! Thanks to the following persons for hints & tipps for my new configuration: - Jörg Burwitz (CEGT tester) to different tourney parameters. - Stefan Pohl (SPCC) to syzygy support / hashtables /time-control. - Peter Martan to settings around Dragon by Komodo. - Norman Schmidt (Fire) to his wish for a Replay-Zone, a good idea! December 28th, 2023 - I changed from Dragon 3.3 NN (aggr.) to Dragon 3.3 NN (Komodo). Without "aggr" because NN is not working, thanks to Peter Martan for this hint. December 31st, 2023 The following updates will be integrated after round 1 on January 02nd, 2024 - Seer 2.8.0 NN replaced Seer 2.7.0 NN - Andscacs 0.95 replaced Andscacs 0.95.123 I believe that the last release version has a better move-average. January 02nd, 2024 Now there are still two updates running, no more updates possible! The tourney can now run for a while. I wish the visitors fun with my "Living-Room-Tourney" and a good year 2024. Janaury 02nd, 2024 - *.html result site is ready! https://www.amateurschach.de/main/_ma.htm January 06th, 2024 - number of round not right in my *.pgn files Example: Round 1, 2, 3 ... changed to Round 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 January 25th, 2024 - 44 engines plays 20 rounds, without disqualification for that reason that the move-average is to high. I will make no further changes to this tournament. February 19th, 2024 - in the months of March and April 2024 I will often be away from home. So I will take a break (after round 10/20) for my tournament. Frank Quisinsky, Germany / Gutweiler