Stefan Pohl Computer Chess

Home of famous UHO openings and EAS Ratinglist


Latest Website-News (2025/11/21): Testrun of Stockfish 251117 (using another new Threat Input Net) finished: +3 Celo to Stockfish 251112.

 

Gamepairs of Stockfish 251117 TI vs Stockfish 17.1: 500 (+151 =265 -84) = 56.7%

 

Sadly, the EAS-Score regression of Stockfish TI continues, especially sacrifrices are much worse, compared to the latest non-TI Stockfish dev:

 

                   early           bad  avg.win 
EAS-Score  sacs    sacs   shorts  draws  moves  Engine/player 
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  263809  22.99%  31.69%  21.95%  10.51%   75   Stockfish 251102 a512 (final non TI) 
  231534  18.35%  33.42%  21.32%  12.75%   75   Stockfish 251112 a512 (TI) 

  219981  17.23%  32.75%  19.76%  12.84%   75   Stockfish 251117 a512 (TI)

 

Ceres Binary here, Ceres Installation Guide here, Ceres Nets here

 

Dont forget to take a look at my EAS-Ratinglist (The world's first engine-ratinglist not measuring strength of engines, but engines's style of play). 

 

Next testrun: PlentyChess 7.0.22 (new dev, taken from official GitHub)

 

Stay tuned.

I decided to remove the (artificial) Lc0-entry in my UHO-Top15 ratinglist, because the math behind is bad and Lc0 did not improve since year(s?). Lc0 still plays with the old BT4-1740 net in CCC on chesscom right now. If Lc0 ever manages to improve or getting a new net, I will of course look into it. The Lc0 testing results can, of course, still be seen on NN vs Stockfish 15.1 testing


UHO-Top15 Engines Ratinglist (+ regular testing of Stockfish Dev-versions)

 

 

Playing conditions:

 

The 15 strongest engines and the latest StockfishDev version are playing 1000 games vs. each opponent: 15000 games per engine are played. A RoundRobin Tournament with 120000 games overall !

 

Hardware: AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 16-core (32 threads) notebook with 64GB RAM (since 2024/10/08), 2 identical machines. Windows 11 64bit

Speed: (singlethread, TurboBoost-mode switched off, chess starting position) Stockfish 17: 600 kn/s (when 26 games are running simultaneously)

Hash: 512MB per engine

GUI: Cutechess-cli (GUI ends game, when a 5-piece endgame is on the board, all other games are played until mate or draw by chess-rules (3fold, 50-moves, stalemate))

Tablebases: None for engines, 5 Syzygy for cutechess-cli

OpeningsMy UHO_2022_6mvs_+120_+129 openings are used (first 500 lines) (UHO 2022 openings are part of my Anti Draw Openings download-package). 

Ponder, Large Memory Pages & learning: Off

Thinking time: 3min+1sec per game/engine. One testrun (15000 games) takes around 80-85 hours (=3.5 days)

The version-numbers of the Stockfish engines are the date of the latest patch, which was included in the Stockfish sourcecode, not the release-date of the engine-file, written backwards (year,month,day))(example: 200807 = August, 7, 2020). The used SF compile is the AVX512-compile, which is the fastest on my AMD Ryzen CPU. SF binaries are taken from https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/releases (except the official SF-release versions, which are taken form the official Stockfish website).

Read the explanation, why I chose my testing-conditions, like I did here

 

Latest update: 2025/11/21: Stockfish 251117 (+3 Celo to Stockfish 251112)

 

(Ordo-calculation fixed to Stockfish 17.1 = 3854 Celo. Mention, there are no human or "realistic" Elo numbers in enginechess, since the engines reached superhuman strength, so I decided to use "Celo" (=Computer Elo) instead)

 

See the tournament cross-table as a picture (done by Fritz20 GUI) here

See the individual statistics of engine-results here

See the Engines Aggressiveness Score Ratinglist here

See the Gamepair-statistics of the UHO-Top15 Ratinglist here

See the full UHO Ratinglist (with EAS-Ratinglist): here

Download the current gamebase, the full-list gamebase and the archive here

Download all interesting wins (filtered by EAS-Tool) from the full UHO Ratinglist here

See the old SPCC-Ratinglist (full list) and EAS-List from 2020 until 2023/08/28: here

 

(best Stockfish Celo: Stockfish 251117: 3869 Celo, latest full release (Stockfish 17.1) had 3854 Celo)

     Program                     Celo    +    - Games    Score   Av.Op. Draws

   1 Stockfish 251117 a512     : 3869    4    4 15000    68.1%   3732   48.3%
   2 Stockfish 17.1 250330     : 3854    4    4 15000    66.2%   3733   48.8%
   3 Torch 4 a512              : 3806    4    4 15000    59.5%   3736   49.3%
   4 Reckless 251107 a512      : 3788    4    4 15000    57.0%   3737   48.2%
   5 PlentyChess 7.0.12 TI     : 3787    4    4 15000    56.9%   3737   48.8%
   6 Obsidian 250706 a512      : 3786    4    4 15000    56.8%   3737   49.9%
   7 Integral 250805 a512      : 3755    4    4 15000    52.1%   3740   50.2%
   8 Berserk 250606 a512       : 3737    4    4 15000    49.6%   3741   50.1%
   9 Alexandria 8.1.12 a512    : 3736    4    4 15000    49.4%   3741   50.4%
  10 Clover 9.1 a512           : 3692    4    4 15000    43.0%   3744   50.3%
  11 Caissa 1.23 a512          : 3689    4    4 15000    42.6%   3744   50.1%
  12 Viridithas 18.0 a512      : 3689    4    4 15000    42.5%   3744   49.1%
  13 KomodoDragon 3.3 avx2     : 3689    4    4 15000    42.5%   3744   50.0%
  14 Stormphrax 7.0 avx2       : 3668    4    4 15000    39.6%   3745   48.7%
  15 Horsie 1.1 a512           : 3652    4    4 15000    37.2%   3746   49.0%
  16 RubiChess 250606 a512     : 3650    4    4 15000    37.0%   3746   49.1%

 

Games        : 120000 (finished)
White Wins   : 59633 (49.7%)
Black Wins   : 1084   (0.9%)
Draws        : 59283 (49.4%)


Below the UHO-Top15 Ratinglist, recalculated with Gamepairs (using my Gamepair Rescoring Tool V1.5), Ordo-calculation fixed to Stockfish 17.1 = 3854 Celo, realizing Vondele's (Stockfish Maintainer) idea: "Thinking uniquely in game pairs makes sense with the biased openings used these days. While pentanomial makes  sense it is a bit complicated so we could simplify and score game pairs only (not games) as W-L-D (a traditional score of 2-0, or 1.5-0.5 is just a W)."

Mention, the errorbar here is +/-5.5 Celo (=11 overall Error), compared to +/-4 Celo in the classical ratinglist above (=1.375 wider errorbar here). But the result-gaps are (at least) 2x up to 2.5x bigger (in average), calculating with gamepairs. So, the statistical reliability of the results is much better in the Gamepair-ratinglist, compared to the classical ratinglist...

CFS means Chance For Superiority in percent, calculated by ORDO.

See the head-to-head gamepair-statistics of the UHO-Top15 Ratinglist here

   # PLAYER                    :    Celo  Error   Pairs     W     D     L   (%)  CFS(%)
   1 Stockfish 251117 a512     :    3899     11    7500  5471  1866   163  85.4     100
   2 Stockfish 17.1 250330     :    3854   ----    7500  5083  2103   314  81.8     100
   3 Torch 4 a512              :    3719     10    7500  3690  2879   931  68.4     100
   4 Reckless 251107 a512      :    3677     10    7500  3278  2990  1232  63.6      76
   5 Obsidian 250706 a512      :    3674     10    7500  3215  3056  1229  63.2      61
   6 PlentyChess 7.0.12 TI     :    3673     10    7500  3219  3025  1256  63.1     100
   7 Integral 250805 a512      :    3601     10    7500  2477  3177  1846  54.2     100
   8 Berserk 250606 a512       :    3559     10    7500  2032  3265  2203  48.9      52
   9 Alexandria 8.1.12 a512    :    3558     10    7500  2034  3256  2210  48.8     100
  10 Clover 9.1 a512           :    3457     10    7500  1173  3072  3255  36.1      75
  11 KomodoDragon 3.3 avx2     :    3455     10    7500  1160  3047  3293  35.8      63
  12 Viridithas 18.0 a512      :    3453     10    7500  1155  3032  3313  35.6      63
  13 Caissa 1.23 a512          :    3452     10    7500  1143  3029  3328  35.4     100
  14 Stormphrax 7.0 avx2       :    3402     10    7500   789  2851  3860  29.5     100
  15 RubiChess 250606 a512     :    3363     10    7500   593  2607  4300  25.3      83
  16 Horsie 1.1 a512           :    3359     11    7500   590  2541  4369  24.8     ---

 

------------------------------------------------------------------- 
--- Number of all Gamepairs          : 60000 
--- Number of drawn Gamepairs overall: 22898 (= 38.16%) 
--- Number of 1:1 drawn Gamepairs    : 11423 (= 19.04%) 
--- Number of 2-draws drawn Gamepairs: 11475 (= 19.12%) 
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Aborted testruns, because the tested engine was too weak to enter the UHO-Top15 Ratinglist:

Heimdall 1.4.1, Renegade 1.2.0, Igel 3.6.0, Minic 3.41, Booot 7.3, Black Marlin 9.0, Equisetum 1.0, Quanticade 2.0, Clarity 8


Below you find a diagram of the progress of Stockfish in my tests since February 2023

And below that diagram, the older diagrams.

 

You can save the diagrams on your PC with mouseclick (right button) and then choose "save image"...







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