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Top15 round-robin tournament of free engines only, using Stefan Pohl's unbalanced 3-move book Chess324xxl_big+090_+119.pgn played reversed sides per pairing.

Time Control: game in 2 minutes plus 1 second increment, 2'+1"
Hardware: Intel i7 12700, i9 10900 and AMD Ryzen 5900X (performance roughly equalised via power settings)
CuteChess GUI: Concurrency limited to number of actual cores (P cores in case of i7 12700)
Each engine 512MB hash, 1 thread, ponder off
Each pairing 100 openings
Adjudication: Syzygy 5-men only - no eval based adjudication.
Endgame tablebases: Syzygy 5-men.
Ratings calculated with Ordo.

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     # PLAYER                :  RATING  ERROR  POINTS  PLAYED   (%)     W     D     L  D(%)  OppAvg  CFS(%)
   1 Stockfish 17.1          :    3859      9  2135.0    3000  71.2  1327  1616    57  53.9    3697     100
   2 Obsidian 16             :    3797      7  1891.0    3000  63.0  1010  1762   228  58.7    3701     100
   3 PlentyChess 5.0.0       :    3762      8  1743.0    3000  58.1   854  1778   368  59.3    3703     100
   4 Berserk 13              :    3748      7  1681.0    3000  56.0   779  1804   417  60.1    3704      93
   5 Caissa 1.22             :    3741      7  1648.5    3000  55.0   726  1845   429  61.5    3705      78
   6 Alexandria 8.0.0        :    3736      7  1629.5    3000  54.3   724  1811   465  60.4    3705      54
   7 Integral V7             :    3736      7  1627.0    3000  54.2   753  1748   499  58.3    3705     100
   8 Viridithas 17.0.0       :    3714      7  1533.0    3000  51.1   591  1884   525  62.8    3707      97
   9 Horsie 1.1              :    3704      7  1489.0    3000  49.6   579  1820   601  60.7    3707      96
  10 Clover 8.1              :    3695      7  1448.0    3000  48.3   529  1838   633  61.3    3708     100
  11 Stormphrax 6.0.0        :    3666      7  1321.0    3000  44.0   449  1744   807  58.1    3710     100
  12 Starzix 6.0             :    3651      7  1254.5    3000  41.8   390  1729   881  57.6    3711      74
  13 RubiChess 20240817      :    3647      7  1239.0    3000  41.3   356  1766   878  58.9    3711     100
  14 Quanticade Orion 2.0    :    3624      7  1141.5    3000  38.0   277  1729   994  57.6    3713      67
  15 Motor 0.8.0             :    3622      8  1130.5    3000  37.7   256  1749   995  58.3    3713      95
  16 Renegade 1.2.0          :    3611      8  1088.5    3000  36.3   286  1605  1109  53.5    3713     ---

  Total: 24'000 games played by 16 programs (games available on request)

  White wins: 9'368 (39.0%)
  Black wins: 518 (2.2%)
  Draws: 14'114 (58.8%)
  White score: 68.4%

Updated: 2025-05-26