Some Notes About Engine Settings Testing

[Sedat Canbaz]

Hello Chess Friends,

Well, just I'd like to inform you that,
I managed to create all Champions books !!
You know..this is my job...and I love my job )

Believe Me,
Running these kind of competitions.. it is not so easy
As it looks... but just because is hard...it does not
Mean to give up, right ?)

Note also that, normally:
The tournament's target was to be played with Ponder ON,
As we know, real Chess is thinking in Opponent's turn!

But what a pity that,
Not all of engines are so stable.. e.g when the pondering is enabled:
Unfortunately sometimes I see time forfeits (disconnecting from games)
But quite normal..as we know mostly of these engines are old-dated...
The real problem is that, when new engines and to have bugs, right too?
Sure...my fingers are tired to explain but let's hope the next new ones
To be stable... sure with limit playing strength too...as you may see too
We have real problems with eng settings...as I stated before., e.g some
Engines are far away from the reality....

Be aware of that too please,
Shield 2.1 engine is replaced with Pawny 1.2, as simple reason,
There is something strange in Shield 2.1's book settings, e.g
Often is out of book (even when there are main lines to be played)
Sure..I tried to change the book settings, but did not help at all...

Ok here is 1st tourney results...in gauntlet mode...I will see and check,
If it is all right... then all players will be played in round-robin mode

GOOD LUCK TO ALL

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Rank Name                          Elo     +/-   Games   Score    Draw 
   0 Capablanca + Tornado           17      40     203   52.5%   30.0% 
   1 Carlsen + Rybka               120     186      12   66.7%   33.3% 
   2 Kasparov + Stockfish           76     136      14   60.7%   50.0% 
   3 Botvinnik + Rodent             76     159      14   60.7%   35.7% 
   4 Tal + Pawny                    58     148      12   58.3%   50.0% 
   5 Kramnik + Junior               29     187      12   54.2%   25.0% 
   6 Alekhine + Hannibal            25     175      14   53.6%   21.4% 
   7 Lasker + Sjeng                  0     173      12   50.0%   33.3% 
   8 Anand + Fruit                   0     158      13   50.0%   38.5% 
   9 Steinitz + Zappa              -29     212      12   45.8%    8.3% 
  10 Spassky + Hiarcs              -32     209      11   45.5%   18.2% 
  11 Euwe + Gambit Fruit           -50     146      14   42.9%   42.9% 
  12 Karpov + Shredder             -54     183      13   42.3%   23.1% 
  13 Petrosian + Toga             -110     195      13   34.6%   23.1% 
  14 Liren + Naum                 -120     223      12   33.3%   16.7% 
  15 Fischer + Gaviota            -141     187      13   30.8%   30.8% 
  16 Smyslov + ProDeo             -154     218      12   29.2%   25.0% 

203 of 512 games finished.

[Sedat Canbaz]

Update 3

Stockfish 1.4 engine is replaced with Komodo Dragon 2880 Elo
As reason, Stockfish is refused to play with Kasparov book
Really no any idea why... very likely SF did not like it ))
But under Arena GUI is all right...no any problem...it seems
Stockfish 1.4 suffers using external bin book under Cutechess!
Sure with Polyglot adapter is possible.. but this time SF's strength
Can be not same....anyhow I will test Kasparov book via both
Engines....at least we will have some and newer data,
Regarding SF via using Polyglot adapter too...e.g
In the past, as far as I remember, under Winboard GUI
Stockfish is suffered via Polyglot adapter...

Btw, special thanks to Zamchess, for his suggestion...
Otherwise, I would still looking for other chess engine/s
You may know..too complicated to find close to 2880 Elo

Greetings

[Sedat Canbaz]

UPDATE 4

And as I promised,
Kasparov is played by Stockfish 1.4 too, but it seems via
Polyglot adapter suffers...and as we see..it looks like so...

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Rank Name                       Elo    +    - games score oppo. draws 
   1 Kasparov + Komodo         2867   25   24   512   61%  2779   21% 
   2 Carlsen + Rybka           2857   23   23   544   60%  2783   32% 
   3 Kasparov + Stockfish      2830   23   23   512   57%  2779   39% 
   4 Karpov + Shredder         2826   23   23   544   56%  2785   33% 
   5 Kramnik + Junior          2804   23   23   544   52%  2786   29% 
   6 Capablanca + Tornado      2804   23   23   544   53%  2786   30% 
   7 Lasker + Sjeng            2803   23   23   544   52%  2786   33% 
   8 Fischer + Gaviota         2793   23   23   544   51%  2787   32% 
   9 Botvinnik + Rodent        2791   23   23   544   51%  2787   32% 
  10 Anand + Fruit             2791   22   22   544   51%  2787   36% 
  11 Alekhine + Hannibal       2790   23   23   544   50%  2787   36% 
  12 Liren + Naum              2781   22   22   544   49%  2787   40% 
  13 Tal + Pawny               2767   22   22   544   47%  2788   36% 
  14 Spassky + Hiarcs          2747   22   23   544   44%  2789   35% 
  15 Petrosian + Toga          2743   22   23   544   44%  2790   34% 
  16 Steinitz + Zappa          2742   22   22   544   43%  2790   35% 
  17 Smyslov + ProDeo          2727   23   23   544   41%  2790   32% 
  18 Euwe + Gambit Fruit       2703   22   23   544   37%  2792   37%

GAMES:
https://mega.nz/file/zh4kUCgT#jI9NX2gBu ... 6hgn3x0utY