Stefan Pohl Computer Chess

Latest Website-News (2026/04/25): Testrun of Stockfish 260426 finished: +1 Celo to Stockfish 2601420. Now +10 Celo to Stockfish 18 in around 3 months - quite good progress right now.

 

My gift to the community - a much better cutechessGUI. Made by Patrick Leonhardt (PlentyChess), payed for the work by me. Learn more about new cutechess on talkchess and download it right here 

Please mention, this is an early release, bugs are still possible - please report them on talkchess or contact me.

 

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).

 

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

Openings: My 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: 2026/04/30: Stockfish 260426 (+1 Celo to Stockfish 260420)

 

(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

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

 

(best Stockfish Celo: Stockfish 260426: 3883 Celo, latest full release (Stockfish 18) has 3873 Celo)

     Program                    Celo    +    - Games    Score   Av.Op. Draws

   1 Stockfish 260426 a512    : 3883    4    4 15000    67.9%   3748   49.0%
   2 Stockfish 18 260131      : 3873    4    4 15000    66.5%   3749   49.2%
   3 Reckless 260401 a512     : 3843    4    4 15000    62.5%   3751   48.9%
   4 Torch 4d a512            : 3827    4    4 15000    60.2%   3752   49.9%
   5 PlentyChess 7.0.37       : 3800    4    4 15000    56.4%   3754   48.4%
   6 Obsidian 250706 a512     : 3784    4    4 15000    54.0%   3755   49.8%
   7 Alexandria 9.0 a512      : 3757    4    4 15000    50.1%   3757   49.1%
   8 Integral 250805 a512     : 3753    4    4 15000    49.5%   3757   50.6%
   9 Berserk 250606 a512      : 3738    4    4 15000    47.3%   3758   50.4%
  10 Viridithas 19.0 a512     : 3723    4    4 15000    45.1%   3759   49.4%
  11 Caissa 1.25 a512         : 3703    4    4 15000    42.3%   3760   50.0%
  12 Clover 9.1 a512          : 3691    4    4 15000    40.6%   3761   50.8%
  13 KomodoDragon 3.3 avx2    : 3690    4    4 15000    40.3%   3761   49.4%
  14 Halogen 16.0 a512        : 3686    4    4 15000    39.8%   3762   48.9%
  15 Tarnished 5.0 a512       : 3682    4    4 15000    39.2%   3762   50.2%
  16 Pawnocchio 1.9 a512      : 3677    4    4 15000    38.5%   3762   50.3%

 

Games        : 120000 (finished)
White Wins   : 59368 (49.5%)
Black Wins   : 1071   (0.9%)
Draws        : 59561 (49.6%)

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 260426 a512    :    3907     11    7500  5457  1843   200  85.0     100
   2 Stockfish 18 260131      :    3873   ----    7500  5126  2103   271  82.4     100
   3 Reckless 260401 a512     :    3783     11    7500  4304  2515   681  74.2     100
   4 Torch 4d a512            :    3741     10    7500  3829  2812   859  69.8     100
   5 PlentyChess 7.0.37       :    3673     10    7500  3117  3075  1308  62.1     100
   6 Obsidian 250706 a512     :    3637     10    7500  2769  3135  1596  57.8     100
   7 Alexandria 9.0 a512      :    3576     10    7500  2119  3286  2095  50.2      97
   8 Integral 250805 a512     :    3567     11    7500  2068  3221  2211  49.0     100
   9 Berserk 250606 a512      :    3530     10    7500  1719  3221  2560  44.4     100
  10 Viridithas 19.0 a512     :    3498     10    7500  1416  3219  2865  40.3     100
  11 Caissa 1.25 a512         :    3453     11    7500  1066  3095  3339  34.8     100
  12 KomodoDragon 3.3 avx2    :    3426     10    7500   912  2923  3665  31.6      65
  13 Clover 9.1 a512          :    3425     10    7500   878  2962  3660  31.5      93
  14 Halogen 16.0 a512        :    3418     10    7500   872  2862  3766  30.7     100
  15 Tarnished 5.0 a512       :    3403     11    7500   754  2841  3905  29.0     100
  16 Pawnocchio 1.9 a512      :    3387     10    7500   704  2667  4129  27.2     ---

 

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--- Number of all Gamepairs          : 60000 
--- Number of drawn Gamepairs overall: 22890 (= 38.15%) 
--- Number of 1:1 drawn Gamepairs    : 11272 (= 18.79%) 
--- Number of 2-draws drawn Gamepairs: 11618 (= 19.36%) 
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Aborted testruns, because the tested engine was too weak to enter the UHO-Top15 Ratinglist:

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"...