Komodo 1318 is the current Leader - Congrats to Komodo team !
SCCT Gladiators 2014 - Standings after 116 games: http://www.sedatc...ge_id=1168
Note: I included the 12 games, played at 40/120 as 1 core at the current standings!
Because I think that the quality and the strength of those 12 games are similar!
Btw,
No any comments (exception Sekos) about my new tournament picture ?!
I've spent many time and efforts during working over it...))
So I wonder, which signs/parts of the picture did you like much ?)
As before, Komodo 1318 MP still leads the tournament...!!!
Stockfish is currently second, but what about after 100 games ?!)
Really I am not sure which of the both Top players will win...
Note that I plan to include Chiron 2 MP as next participant!
To be honest,
I am quite satisfied by the current performance of Chiron, even above than Rybka !
It looks like, Chiron is doing very good under these conditions...above than expected...
Note also that,
So far Chiron has 2 wins / 13 loses / 25 draws
Btw,
Here are the both games (won by Chiron)
And I don't think that the current played openings are weak/reason...)!
There was a BIG fight for the first place and the winner is Komodo !!
Impressive performance by Komodo 1318 - Congrats to Komodo Team !
Another record is that,
For the 1st time Komodo wins the SCCT tournament !)
This time unfortunately,
Stockfish 091114 MP is performed as 2nd
For example,
Since 2014, Stockfish won almost all SCCT tournaments, exception this one...
Yes...it looks like Stockfish was not lucky under these conditions
About Houdini, Gull and Rybka performance,
As I expected...without updates they can not be better....
About Chiron 6th ranking,
Good, much better than Blitz and its performance is near to Rybka
Chiron has one game lost on time, otherwise probably would be rated higher
Btw,
I replayed 2 short (up to 15 moves) drawn games
More details/statistics about the current competition:
Games : 300 (finished)
White Wins : 84 (28.0 %)
Black Wins : 38 (12.7 %)
Draws : 178 (59.3 %)
Unfinished : 0
White Perf. : 57.7 %
Black Perf. : 42.3 %
ECO A = 12 Games ( 4.0 %)
ECO B = 115 Games (38.3 %)
ECO C = 92 Games (30.7 %)
ECO D = 61 Games (20.3 %)
ECO E = 20 Games ( 6.7 %)
Tournament Start Date: 10.11.2014
Tournament Complete Date: 24.11.2014
Total Games Played: 300
Average Games Per Day: 21
Average Moves Length Per Game: 67
Also I am very impressed by the of the below game statistics:
Fastest Win: Houdini 4 MP vs Rybka 4.1 MP 1-0 (in 31 moves)
Longest Win: Houdini 4 MP vs Komodo 1318 MP 0-1 (in 141 moves)
Note also that,
There is a possibility to resume the current tourney, maybe in 2015 !)
Opening Book Engine Book Author Country
Adv1971 SE Stockfish Guest71 Italy
Axion Stockfish Nick Carlin England
Book X Komodo Adam Hair USA
Crusher v16 Stockfish Marc Greenhaw USA
Exodus Stockfish Siddhartha Bakshi India
Hurricane3E Stockfish Nikolay Bartenev Russia
Guardian Angel Stockfish Giuseppe Petruccelli Italy
JackStrong Komodo Pawel Sekowski Poland
Invictus Stockfish Klaus Ritter Germany
KingOfLegends Stockfish Babu Hatela India
Mapanare2014 Stockfish Jean Disquin Venezuela
Needle 5.7.4F Stockfish Aleksandr Shvachko Russia
Rodent Stockfish Pawel Koziol Poland
Sky-Panda Stockfish Eros Riccio Italy
S.W.Y.D VII Stockfish Tiago Alves Brasil
Zenix3.8 Stockfish Julien Durand France
Note:
Stockfish 301114 and Komodo 1318 are planning to used !
More Details,
I plan to include a few books more, based mainly on Top engine games played in:
CCRL
CEGT
FCT
SCCTb (based on games played in SCCT Book Tournaments)
SCCTe (based on games played in SCCT Engine Tournaments)
SSDF
Note also that, the above 6 books are planning to be played with Stockfish engine
The mentioned books are in ctg formats, up to 50 moves, without any optimizations...
My created books are expecting to be one of the last places, due to various openings, plus games are available... )!
But however, I wonder a lot what will be their performance, let's see...
Probably tomorrow I will start this exiting event )!
Some Notes:
Each book participant will have more than 120 games per player!
Invictus book's participation is cancelled, due to the tournament was several times crashed during this book was active...
Strange indeed, not sure why...normally Invictus files seem to be clean (checked with AVG Anti program)
In the end of this tournament,
I plan to test 3 books more in a gauntlet mode:
Ipman book (the book author is Ipman, who is an expert on engine complies)
TCEC book (based on Top chess engine games played in TCEC tournaments)
WorldChampions book (based on average 2750 Elo GMs games, played mainly on World Chess ChampionShips)
Note also that,
So far not too bad performance by CEGT, SCCTe, CCRL books too
Because I've spent O (zero) time during creating them...)!
In shortly, I just imported the played games....
BTW, I think this tournament should not be forgotten because,
Also I plan to include Deep Junior 8 in the current competition
Note: Junior MP engine will participate with a decent book, based on approx. 2700 Elo 50.000 GMs games, up to 25 moves
For better performance, I optimized Junior 8 MP's playing opening style, e.g I enabled only Junior 8 wins played in serious tournaments...
The reason about why I plan to include Junior 8 MP is that, I wonder what will the Elo difference...
Plus as far as I know, Deep Junior 8 is on level as many Top Grandmasters average 2800 Elo...
For example, still it's in my mind the duel between Kasparov vs Deep Junior 8, which is ended 3-3 draw (2003)
And as I mentioned before, nowadays we can not see a real duel GMs against Top Chess engines...
At least this exiting tour will give us a little bit info...in case of similar match what will be the performance )!
For example, many chess engine rating creators give very low Elo values for Stockfish, Komodo...
So...if Deep Junior 8 will be rated above than 3000 Elo, that means I should drop the start Elo calculations...
Note also that Deep Junior 8 has high possibility to be rated above than expected...
Because FCT, CCRL, CEGT, SCCTb, SCCTe, SSDF, TCEC books have a lot of holes...especially after 8 moves
To be honest, I expect Deep Junior 8 will rated at around 2750-2850 Elo, but of course to be sure we need games
And very soon all this unknown issue will be solved....)!
Have Fun,
Sedat
Изменил(а) Sedat Canbaz, 08-12-2014 15:42
WorldChampions book is currently 6th !
So far very good performance indeed...!!
More details about the current WorldChampions book,
Book's openings are based on the greatest chess players ever, played in world championships by:
Paul Morphy
Wilhelm Steinitz
Emanuel Lasker
Jose Raul Capablanca
Alexander Alekhine
Max Euwe
Mikhail Botvinnik
Vasily Smyslov
Mikhail Tal
Tigran Petrosian
Boris Spassky
Robert J. Fischer
Anatoly Karpov
Garry Kasparov
Vladimir Kramnik
Ruslan Ponomariov
Rustam Kasimdzhanov
Viswanathan Anand
Magnus Carlsen
About Ipman book,
Currently is 9th, as a new incomer really good !
About TCEC book,
Its performance is now at 18th place, not bad too ...
Once more I'd like to mention that,
Neutral openings have no chances to be rated at one of the Top places, due to various openings...
Plus especially after 8 moves: the openings suffer...they are not optimized for such competitions !
But however very soon,
I plan to run a new book tournament, which will be based on openings up to 8 moves
Let's see which short openings are the strongest for computer chess !)
Btw, so far Deep Junior 8's performance (as I expected) is at around 2850 Elo
And once more I noticed that,
SCCT Elo calculations almost perfectly suit to GMs Elo points !)
And in case of GMs participations under the current SCCT conditions,
Probably Top GMs will be rated at similar Elo points as Deep Junior 8
Note also that finely Deep Junior 8 managed to win (against SSDF) !!
I checked that played game, impressive...well-done to Junior team...!
But of course SSDF lost due to weak opening )!
To be honest, I am not much surprised that a such opening is coming from SSDF )
Because the old dated own books have much more holes than latest used decent books...
Also Deep Junior has 3 draws (against Sky-Panda, Hurricane3E, Rodent)
And 92 defeats...in other words, Deep Junior's performance so far: 1 win, 3 draws, 92 losses
Note: Registrations are closed, the current tour is over !
Btw, very soon I plan to organize a new book competition !!
There will be new conditions/rules for the next exiting event,
To be as book participant: minimum 100 opening lines are required
*For example, minimum 50 as Whites and 50 as Blacks openings
Up to 8 move book openings are allowed
Book Settings: recommended by the Book Authors
The books will be tested with Learning OFF (to see more various openings)
The rest conditions will be same as previous one (SCCT CS III)
And here are some of the opening books, which are planning to participate:
Baracuda 2014d (by Marijan)
CCRL (based on Top engine games played in CCRL)
CEGT (based on Top engine games played in CEGT)
FCT (based on Top engine games played in FCT)
HS-7moves plus (by Harry Schnapp)
ICCF (based on high-rated games played in ICCF server)
Perfect 2015 (based on Top engine games played mainly in SCCT)
PlayChess (based on high-rated engine games played in Playchess server)
SSDF (based on Top engine games played in SSDF)
TCEC (based on Top engine games played in TCEC)
WorldChampions (based on GMs games played in World Chess Championships)
Note also before starting the next tour,
I will reset the learned weights of the played books: CCRL, CEGT, FCT, SSDF, TCEC, WorldChampion
So who is interested to participate...the next book tour is planning to be started on 20 December 2014
The registration date: 17 - 19 December 2014
I hope to see many registrations in the next event...
The Current Leader: CEGT book - My Congratulations to CEGT Team !
Frankly,
This time, I am very disappointed with WorldChampions book's performance
Unfortunately currently its ranking is at last place (!
It looks like Houdini 4 suffers via WorldChampions book
For example in the previous tour, the same book finished as 9th place
Note that Book Registrations (up to 8 moves) are acceptable !
In case of interest to participate, please send your book to my E-Mail:
The registration date: 17 - 19 December 2014
Note: Registered books will be tested in gauntlet mode !
You have choice to prefer Hoidini 4, Komodo 8, Stockfish 5
I hope to see many book registrations in the current event...)!
Note also that,
In the beginning of the tournament, I set Stockfish 061214 for all book participants
But later I've change my mind, because I noticed nearly 90 % draws
That's why later I switched to 3 different engines:
Houdini 4 (H4)
Komodo 8 (K8)
Stockfish 5 (SF5)
For example after that moment,
The draw percentage is dropped to approx. 55 %
About book settings,
All books are playing with optimized book settings: min games: 3 up to 8 moves
Exception for Baracuda 2014d, it is s playing with Book Author's recommendation
As I mentioned before:
Here are the new conditions/rules for the current book tournament,
To be as book participant: minimum 100 opening lines are required
*For example, minimum 50 as Whites and 50 as Blacks openings
or 30 as Whites and rest 70 opening lines as Blacks
Note: I don't request totally different openings...
For example, your favorite openings can be English, Spanish, Sicilian...but not exactly same and a few lines
Otherwise it will be too boring to see only B90 at 8...h5 or D43 etc...
Please note also that,
Up to 8 move book openings are allowed
Book Settings: recommended by the Book Authors
There will be qualifications for the current playing books:
So each participant will be played 200 games per player
And after that, only the Top 5 books will be continued of participating
The new registered books will be tested against Top 5 books
The books will be tested with Learning OFF (to see more various openings)
The rest conditions will be same as previous one (SCCT CS III)
And here are some of the opening books, which are currently running:
Baracuda 2014d (by Marijan)
CCRL (based on Top engine games played in CCRL)
CEGT (based on Top engine games played in CEGT)
FCT (based on Top engine games played in FCT)
HS-7moves plus (by Harry Schnapp)
ICCF (based on high-rated games played in ICCF server)
Perfect 2015 (based on Top engine games played mainly in SCCT)
PlayChess (based on high-rated engine games played in Playchess server)
SSDF (based on Top engine games played in SSDF)
TCEC (based on Top engine games played in TCEC)
WorldChampions (based on GMs games played in World Chess Championships)
BTW, I have good news,
Games and Perfect 2015 book will be available after the end of this tournament !
Note also there is a possibility in the next 2nd tour,
Perfect 2015 book to be not as participant...
Or maybe I can participate with Houdini 4
A little note: Houdini 4 is approx. 20 Elo weaker than SF and K8
In other words,
I will do my best to be not as Champion on my own tourney )!
Actually I know perfectly that,
I should be a neutral TD and I should not participate with my own work
But I was wondering a lot about my used engine openings...
Ok...once more we noticed that,
Any engine Elo strength is highly depending on used openings...
Now it is your turn...
Be ready for the real Arena )!
I was wondering also about,
How Houdini 4 + P2015 book will do against Top 5 participants
So far, its performance is not bad...
And here are the current played results: http://www.sedatc...ge_id=1231
Ok...in case of any registrations for the second tour,
Probably I will participate with Perfect 2015 + Houdini 4 )
And I wish to see a very serious opponent against my Perfect 2015 H4
Actually I will be not surprised in that, because nowadays we have a lot of talented book makers
And with a big possibility we will see better performance than Perfect 2015 + Houdini 4
Note also that book registrations as 'Anonymous' are acceptable too
But however...it will be better with a real name to participate )!
Like 'SedatChess' user name on Playchess server during 2007-2009 years ))
Btw,
I hope to see commercial, free, private opening books too as registered participants )!
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