Stefan Pohl Computer Chess

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Latest Website-News (2026/08/27): Testrun of Coda 0.9.4 AI finished: +38 Celo to Coda 0.9.3. Nice progress. But Coda 0.9.4 AI shows some very weird EAS-stats, learn more on my EAS-Ratinglist subsite. No idea, if this has to do with the fact, that Coda was made with AI. I just want to point out, that these stats (shorts, average win moves) are not "normal", compared to the other top-engines.

 

Patricia 5.1 is out!!! The strongest super-aggressive engine ever created just got an update. From Patricia's GitHub: "After a year, Patricia 5.1 is finally out! I'm expecting about +50 Elo and +50k EAS compared to Patricia 5"

New: "Simplified human mode; don't need to fiddle with uci_elo and is_human options, just set Skill_Level to a value between 1-20 (21 is full strength) and let her go." - this is great, because in some GUIs (FritzGUI for example), skill-level never really worked until now.

My Patricia-subsite will be completely overhauled, when my 14000 games testrun of Patricia 5.1 is finished.

 

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: Patricia 5.1

 

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: 2026/08/27: Coda 0.9.4 AI (+38 Celo to Coda 0.9.3 AI)

 

(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 Decision Time 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 260803: 3907 Celo, latest full release (Stockfish 18) has 3873 Celo)

     Program                   Celo    +    - Games    Score   Av.Op. Draws

   1 Stockfish 260819        : 3908    4    4 15000    68.2%   3772   49.0%
   2 Stockfish 18 260131     : 3873    4    4 15000    63.5%   3774   48.7%
   3 Reckless 260502 a512    : 3830    4    4 15000    57.4%   3777   49.5%
   4 Torch 4d a512           : 3813    4    4 15000    54.8%   3778   49.8%
   5 PlentyChess 8.0.0       : 3808    4    4 15000    54.1%   3779   48.9%
   6 Pawnocchio 2.0 a512     : 3783    4    4 15000    50.4%   3780   49.6%
   7 Coda 0.9.4 AI           : 3781    4    4 15000    50.1%   3781   49.4%
   8 Cinder 6.0 a512         : 3776    4    4 15000    49.4%   3781   49.1%
   9 Obsidian 250706 a512    : 3767    4    4 15000    48.0%   3781   49.2%
  10 Viridithas 20.0 a512    : 3761    4    4 15000    47.2%   3782   49.5%
  11 Alexandria 9.0 a512     : 3739    4    4 15000    43.9%   3783   49.1%
  12 Integral 250805 a512    : 3735    4    4 15000    43.3%   3784   49.6%
  13 Stormphrax 8.0.0        : 3733    4    4 15000    43.0%   3784   49.1%
  14 Quanticade 260810       : 3733    4    4 15000    43.0%   3784   49.7%
  15 Triumviratus 6.0 AI     : 3729    4    4 15000    42.4%   3784   51.7%
  16 Hobbes 3.0 a512         : 3721    4    4 15000    41.2%   3785   49.8%

 

Games        : 120000 (finished)
White Wins   : 59906 (49.9%)
Black Wins   : 721    (0.6%)
Draws        : 59373 (49.5%)


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 260819        :    3975     10    7500  5476  1910   114  85.7     100
   2 Stockfish 18 260131     :    3873   ----    7500  4420  2665   415  76.7     100
   3 Reckless 260502 a512    :    3767      9    7500  3137  3400   963  64.5     100
   4 Torch 4d a512           :    3728      9    7500  2697  3525  1278  59.5     100
   5 PlentyChess 8.0.0       :    3715      8    7500  2542  3587  1371  57.8     100
   6 Pawnocchio 2.0 a512     :    3664      9    7500  2004  3605  1891  50.8      88
   7 Coda 0.9.4 AI           :    3659      9    7500  1951  3612  1937  50.1      98
   8 Cinder 6.0 a512         :    3651      9    7500  1830  3681  1989  48.9     100
   9 Obsidian 250706 a512    :    3630      9    7500  1644  3626  2230  46.1     100
  10 Viridithas 20.0 a512    :    3617      9    7500  1488  3672  2340  44.3     100
  11 Alexandria 9.0 a512     :    3570      9    7500  1100  3499  2901  38.0      98
  12 Integral 250805 a512    :    3562      9    7500  1045  3439  3016  36.9      82
  13 Stormphrax 8.0.0        :    3558      9    7500  1015  3425  3060  36.4      74
  14 Quanticade 260810       :    3556      9    7500   990  3424  3086  36.0      90
  15 Triumviratus 6.0 AI     :    3550      9    7500   988  3321  3191  35.3     100
  16 Hobbes 3.0 a512         :    3532      9    7500   814  3327  3359  33.0     ---

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--- Number of all Gamepairs          : 60000 
--- Number of drawn Gamepairs overall: 26859 (= 44.76%) 
--- Number of 1:1 drawn Gamepairs    : 13508 (= 22.51%) 
--- Number of 2-draws drawn Gamepairs: 13351 (= 22.25%) 
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Aborted testruns, because the tested engine was too weak to enter the UHO-Top15 Ratinglist:

Icarus 1.1, Heimdall 1.5, Renegade 1.2.0, Igel 3.6.0, Minic 3.41, Booot 7.3, Black Marlin 9.0, Equisetum 1.0, Clarity 8, PZChessBot 7.1, Prune 4.0.1


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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