Stefan Pohl Computer Chess

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Latest Website-News (2025/10/16): Testrun of PlentyChess 7 TI finished: 0 Celo to PlentyChess 7.0.0. Mention, this is a success: 

PlentyChess TI is using new "Threat Inputs"-nnue neuralnets, without causing a regression by slowdown (PlentyChess 7 TI nps are around -30% smaller, compared to PlentyChess 7.0.0). Mention, in an experimental testrun of Torch, getting +30% more thinking-time, Torch gained +20 Celo in my testings. So, a -30% speedloss would normally lead to a -20 Celo regression. 

 

TI means: The neural net gets not only the board-position as input (as usual), but also threats on the board (threatened pieces, defended pieces). This allows a better computation and should lead to a Celo-gain.

Threat Inputs are seen as very promising by the developer community, the Stockfish devs are working on it, too.

 

                         early           bad  avg.win 
Rank  EAS-Score  sacs    sacs   shorts  draws  moves  Engine/player 
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        149603  11.78%  35.65%  15.89%  18.74%   78   PlentyChess 7.0.0 a512 
        136607  13.25%  30.74%  13.14%  19.04%   80   PlentyChess 7 TI a512 

Here the EAS-stats. Because of the new TI nnue-net, this is quite interesting. We see a small regression in the overall EAS-score and the short wins, bad draws and average win moves. But, on the other hand, a small improvement in the number of sacs (but a regression in the early sacs).

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: Reckless 251012 (dev, JA binary), followed by latest Stockfish dev

 

Download Patricia xtremeEAS (avx2 windows binary, only!) here

I released the new V6.0 of my EAS-Tool, download here.

 

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: 2025/10/16: PlentyChess 7 TI (0 Celo to PlentyChess 7.0.0)

 

(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 250802: 3859 Celo, latest full release (Stockfish 17.1) had 3854 Celo)

(highest EAS-Score since Stockfish 16 release: Stockfish 240519: 203882 EAS-points)

(Read the explanation of the Lc0-entry in the Ratinglist here).

     Program                    Celo    +    - Games    Score   Av.Op. Draws

   1 Stockfish 251005 a512    : 3856    4    4 15000    66.8%   3730   48.4%
   2 Stockfish 17.1 250330    : 3854    4    4 15000    66.6%   3730   48.7%
   3 Torch 4 a512             : 3808    4    4 15000    60.2%   3733   49.5%
   4 Obsidian 250706 a512     : 3786    4    4 15000    57.1%   3735   49.6%
   5 PlentyChess 7 TI a512    : 3776    4    4 15000    55.7%   3735   49.2%
   6 Reckless 0.8.0 a512      : 3776    4    4 15000    55.7%   3735   49.6%
   7 Integral 250805 a512     : 3756    4    4 15000    52.7%   3737   50.1%
 [   Lc0 0.32dev BT4-6077500  : 3753   15   15  1000 (NN vs SF15.1 testing)] 
   8 Berserk 250606 a512      : 3738    4    4 15000    50.0%   3738   50.4%
   9 Alexandria 8.1 a512      : 3724    4    4 15000    48.0%   3739   50.4%
  10 Clover 9.1 a512          : 3693    4    4 15000    43.4%   3741   50.3%
  11 Caissa 1.23 a512         : 3691    4    4 15000    43.2%   3741   50.4%
  12 Viridithas 18.0 a512     : 3689    4    4 15000    42.9%   3741   49.0%
  13 KomodoDragon 3.3 avx2    : 3689    4    4 15000    42.9%   3741   50.3%
  14 Stormphrax 7.0 avx2      : 3669    4    4 15000    40.1%   3742   48.6%
  15 Horsie 1.1 a512          : 3651    4    4 15000    37.5%   3744   49.3%
  16 RubiChess 250606 a512    : 3650    4    4 15000    37.3%   3744   49.1%

 

Games        : 120000 (finished)
White Wins   : 59516 (49.6%)
Black Wins   : 1022   (0.9%)
Draws        : 59462 (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 251005 a512    :    3860     11    7500  5190  2079   231  83.1      87
   2 Stockfish 17.1 250330    :    3854   ----    7500  5133  2117   250  82.6     100
   3 Torch 4 a512             :    3723     10    7500  3814  2829   857  69.7     100
   4 Obsidian 250706 a512     :    3673     10    7500  3243  3102  1155  63.9     100
   5 Reckless 0.8.0 a512      :    3650      9    7500  2998  3166  1336  61.1      67
   6 PlentyChess 7 TI a512    :    3648     10    7500  2957  3212  1331  60.8     100
   7 Integral 250805 a512     :    3603     10    7500  2548  3194  1758  55.3     100
   8 Berserk 250606 a512      :    3560     10    7500  2053  3349  2098  49.7     100
   9 Alexandria 8.1 a512      :    3530      9    7500  1811  3254  2435  45.8     100
  10 Clover 9.1 a512          :    3461     10    7500  1216  3120  3164  37.0      79
  11 Caissa 1.23 a512         :    3457     10    7500  1171  3143  3186  36.6      52
  12 KomodoDragon 3.3 avx2    :    3457     10    7500  1182  3117  3201  36.5      61
  13 Viridithas 18.0 a512     :    3456     10    7500  1193  3075  3232  36.4     100
  14 Stormphrax 7.0 avx2      :    3407     10    7500   813  2947  3740  30.5     100
  15 RubiChess 250606 a512    :    3365     10    7500   610  2642  4248  25.7      83
  16 Horsie 1.1 a512          :    3360     11    7500   597  2596  4307  25.3     ---

 

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--- Number of all Gamepairs          : 60000 
--- Number of drawn Gamepairs overall: 23471 (= 39.12%) 
--- Number of 1:1 drawn Gamepairs    : 11655 (= 19.42%) 
--- Number of 2-draws drawn Gamepairs: 11816 (= 19.69%) 
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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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