Stefan Pohl Computer Chess

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Latest Website-News (2025/08/27): Testrun of Caissa 1.23 finished: +15 Celo  to Caissa 1.22.

 

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: Viridithas 18 and Stockfish 250824

Next NN-testrun: Lc0 0.32 was released. It offers a new, experimental search (DAG) (for this, you must rename the lc0.exe to lc0-dag-preview.exe (!!!)) and the classic MCTS search.

So, I decided, this is a great opportunity to try out a neural-net from the live training-run (I chose 826342 net) and do 2 testruns: 1 using DAG search and 1 using the classic search. The we can easily do a comparison. But mention, that 1 NN-testrun needs around 5 days to finish, so we need some patience, and also mention, the DAG-Lc0 shows around -30% less nps, compared to classic-Lc0.

Bug Report: Running Lc0 DAG leads to crashes of the opponent engine on my (Windows) PC, so it can not be tested. But the Lc0 classic testrun with net 826342 runs fine and will be 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: 2025/08/27: Caissa 1.23 (+15 Celo to Caissa 1.22)

 

(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 17.1 250330    : 3854    4    4 15000    67.1%   3726   48.9%
   2 Stockfish 250817 a512    : 3853    4    4 15000    67.0%   3726   49.2%
   3 Torch 4 a512             : 3809    4    4 15000    60.9%   3729   49.5%
   4 Obsidian 250706 a512     : 3788    4    4 15000    58.0%   3730   49.7%
   5 PlentyChess 6.15 a512    : 3770    4    4 15000    55.3%   3732   49.7%
   6 Integral 250805 a512     : 3758    4    4 15000    53.6%   3732   50.5%
 [   Lc0 0.32dev BT4-6077500  : 3753   15   15  1000 (NN vs SF15.1 testing)]
   7 Berserk 250606 a512      : 3742    4    4 15000    51.2%   3733   50.8%
   8 Reckless 250630 bmi2     : 3729    4    4 15000    49.3%   3734   49.5%
   9 Alexandria 8.1 a512      : 3727    4    4 15000    49.1%   3734   50.1%
  10 Caissa 1.23 a512         : 3694    4    4 15000    44.2%   3737   50.3%
  11 KomodoDragon 3.3 avx2    : 3690    4    4 15000    43.7%   3737   50.2%
  12 Clover 9.0 a512          : 3686    4    4 15000    43.0%   3737   51.3%
  13 Viridithas 250712        : 3672    4    4 15000    41.0%   3738   49.5%
  14 Stormphrax 7.0 avx2      : 3670    4    4 15000    40.7%   3738   49.0%
  15 Horsie 1.1 a512          : 3651    4    4 15000    38.1%   3739   49.0%
  16 RubiChess 250606 a512    : 3650    4    4 15000    37.9%   3740   49.7%

 

Games        : 120000 (finished)
White Wins   : 59159 (49.3%)
Black Wins   : 1056   (0.9%)
Draws        : 59785 (49.8%)


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 17.1 250330    :    3854   ----    7500  5258  2013   229  83.5      63
   2 Stockfish 250817 a512    :    3852     11    7500  5240  2028   232  83.4     100
   3 Torch 4 a512             :    3723     10    7500  3960  2748   792  71.1     100
   4 Obsidian 250706 a512     :    3675     10    7500  3434  2984  1082  65.7     100
   5 PlentyChess 6.15 a512    :    3630     10    7500  2941  3159  1400  60.3     100
   6 Integral 250805 a512     :    3604     10    7500  2689  3176  1635  57.0     100
   7 Berserk 250606 a512      :    3565     10    7500  2245  3319  1936  52.1     100
   8 Reckless 250630 bmi2     :    3537     10    7500  1975  3317  2208  48.4      80
   9 Alexandria 8.1 a512      :    3534     10    7500  1937  3329  2234  48.0     100
  10 Caissa 1.23 a512         :    3461     10    7500  1310  3171  3019  38.6      86
  11 KomodoDragon 3.3 avx2    :    3456     10    7500  1301  3102  3097  38.0     100
  12 Clover 9.0 a512          :    3440     10    7500  1151  3103  3246  36.0     100
  13 Viridithas 250712        :    3415     10    7500   983  2969  3548  32.9      99
  14 Stormphrax 7.0 avx2      :    3404     11    7500   884  2985  3631  31.7     100
  15 RubiChess 250606 a512    :    3362     10    7500   660  2703  4137  26.8      80
  16 Horsie 1.1 a512          :    3358     11    7500   656  2646  4198  26.4     ---

 

------------------------------------------------------------------- 
--- Number of all Gamepairs          : 60000 
--- Number of drawn Gamepairs overall: 23376 (= 38.96%) 
--- Number of 1:1 drawn Gamepairs    : 11446 (= 19.08%) 
--- Number of 2-draws drawn Gamepairs: 11930 (= 19.88%) 
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Aborted testruns, because the tested engine was too weak to enter the UHO-Top15 Ratinglist:

Halogen 14, 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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