Stefan Pohl Computer Chess

Home of famous UHO openings and EAS Ratinglist


Latest Website-News (2026/07/02): Testrun of PlentyChess 8.0.0 finished: +21 Celo to PlentyChess 7.0.37 (and +59 Celo to PlentyChess 7.0.0).

Testrun of Viridithas 20.0 finished: +59 Celo to Viridithas 19.0

 

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 testruns: Raphael 4.2, Pawnoccho 2.0, Stormphrax 8.0 and (perhaps strong enough?) trying PZChessBot v7.1, Heimdall 1.5.

Because there are so many releases at the same time right now, the next Stockfish dev testrun will start, when all these testruns are finished.

Mention, I can do only 2 testruns simultaneously on my 2 machines, and each run needs 4 days to get finished.

 

Stay tuned.


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: 2026/07/02: PlentyChess 8.0.0 (+21 Celo to PlentyChess 7.0.37) and Viridithas 20.0 (+59 Celo to Viridithas 19.0)

 

(Ordo-calculation fixed to Stockfish 18 = 3873 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

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

 

(best Stockfish Celo: Stockfish 260614: 3891 Celo, latest full release (Stockfish 18) has 3873 Celo)

     Program                     Celo    +    - Games    Score   Av.Op. Draws

   1 Stockfish 260614          : 3891    4    4 15000    67.6%   3760   48.9%
   2 Stockfish 18 260131       : 3873    4    4 15000    65.2%   3761   48.9%
   3 Reckless 260502 a512      : 3838    4    4 15000    60.3%   3763   48.8%
   4 Torch 4d a512             : 3821    4    4 15000    57.9%   3764   50.0%
   5 PlentyChess 8.0.0         : 3818    4    4 15000    57.4%   3764   47.8%
   6 Obsidian 250706 a512      : 3777    4    4 15000    51.4%   3767   49.2%
   7 Viridithas 20.0 a512      : 3776    4    4 15000    51.2%   3767   50.2%
   8 Alexandria 9.0 a512       : 3750    4    4 15000    47.5%   3769   48.9%
   9 Pawnocchio 260527 a512    : 3747    4    4 15000    47.0%   3769   49.1%
  10 Integral 250805 a512      : 3745    4    4 15000    46.6%   3769   50.0%
  11 Berserk 14.0 a512         : 3733    4    4 15000    44.9%   3770   49.1%
  12 Quanticade 260617 a512    : 3718    4    4 15000    42.7%   3771   49.1%
  13 Raphael 260609 a512       : 3706    4    4 15000    41.0%   3772   49.0%
  14 Halogen 16.5 a512         : 3700    4    4 15000    40.1%   3772   48.6%
  15 Caissa 1.25 a512          : 3697    4    4 15000    39.7%   3772   49.5%
  16 Tarnished 6.0 a512        : 3696    4    4 15000    39.5%   3773   49.5%

 

Games        : 120000 (finished)
White Wins   : 60205 (50.2%)
Black Wins   : 783    (0.7%)
Draws        : 59012 (49.2%)


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 260614          :    3929     10    7500  5349  1992   159  84.6     100
   2 Stockfish 18 260131       :    3873   ----    7500  4826  2334   340  79.9     100
   3 Reckless 260502 a512      :    3776      9    7500  3770  2962   768  70.0     100
   4 Torch 4d a512             :    3737     10    7500  3329  3170  1001  65.5      99
   5 PlentyChess 8.0.0         :    3727     10    7500  3226  3198  1076  64.3     100
   6 Obsidian 250706 a512      :    3636      9    7500  2250  3414  1836  52.8      80
   7 Viridithas 20.0 a512      :    3632      9    7500  2213  3419  1868  52.3     100
   8 Alexandria 9.0 a512       :    3577     10    7500  1667  3422  2411  45.0      97
   9 Pawnocchio 260527 a512    :    3569      9    7500  1631  3329  2540  43.9      84
  10 Integral 250805 a512      :    3565      9    7500  1554  3402  2544  43.4     100
  11 Berserk 14.0 a512         :    3537      9    7500  1328  3305  2867  39.7     100
  12 Quanticade 260617 a512    :    3506     10    7500  1053  3258  3189  35.8     100
  13 Raphael 260609 a512       :    3475      9    7500   856  3082  3562  32.0      92
  14 Halogen 16.5 a512         :    3469     10    7500   792  3104  3604  31.3     100
  15 Caissa 1.25 a512          :    3457     10    7500   751  2970  3779  29.8      62
  16 Tarnished 6.0 a512        :    3455     10    7500   747  2955  3798  29.7     ---

 

------------------------------------------------------------------- 
--- Number of all Gamepairs          : 60000 
--- Number of drawn Gamepairs overall: 24658 (= 41.10%) 
--- Number of 1:1 drawn Gamepairs    : 12555 (= 20.92%) 
--- Number of 2-draws drawn Gamepairs: 12103 (= 20.17%) 
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Aborted testruns, because the tested engine was too weak to enter the UHO-Top15 Ratinglist:

Icarus 1.1, Raphael 4.0, 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, Clarity 8


Below you find a diagram of the progress of Stockfish in my tests since February 2026

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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