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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      8  2148.5    3000  71.6  1350  1597    53  53.2    3693     100
   2 Obsidian 15              :    3772      7  1799.5    3000  60.0   928  1743   329  58.1    3699      93
   3 PlentyChess 5.0.0        :    3763      8  1763.0    3000  58.8   887  1752   361  58.4    3700      99
   4 Berserk 13               :    3749      7  1701.0    3000  56.7   808  1786   406  59.5    3701      90
   5 Caissa 1.22              :    3742      7  1670.5    3000  55.7   765  1811   424  60.4    3701      73
   6 Alexandria 8.0.0         :    3739      8  1655.5    3000  55.2   749  1813   438  60.4    3701      78
   7 Integral V7              :    3734      8  1636.5    3000  54.5   763  1747   490  58.2    3702     100
   8 Viridithas 17.0.0        :    3715      7  1553.0    3000  51.8   618  1870   512  62.3    3703     100
   9 Clover 8.1               :    3696      8  1467.5    3000  48.9   554  1827   619  60.9    3704      99
  10 Horsie 1.0               :    3682      7  1408.0    3000  46.9   531  1754   715  58.5    3705     100
  11 Stormphrax 6.0.0         :    3665      7  1333.0    3000  44.4   467  1732   801  57.7    3706     100
  12 RubiChess 20240817       :    3650      7  1267.0    3000  42.2   372  1790   838  59.7    3707      50
  13 Starzix 6.0              :    3650      7  1267.0    3000  42.2   410  1714   876  57.1    3707     100
  14 Motor 0.8.0              :    3625      8  1161.0    3000  38.7   289  1744   967  58.1    3709      99
  15 Renegade 1.2.0           :    3611      7  1101.0    3000  36.7   289  1624  1087  54.1    3710      92
  16 Quanticade Fenrir 1.0    :    3603      8  1068.0    3000  35.6   254  1628  1118  54.3    3710     ---

  Total: 24'000 games played by 16 programs

  White wins: 9'474 (39.5%)
  Black wins: 560 (2.3%)
  Draws: 13'966 (58.2%)
  White score: 68.6%

Updated: 2025-05-08