SedatChess

[Sedat Canbaz]

UPDATE 5

Meanwhile,
Without to not mention this... I can not as well,

If you will use a opening suite that is full with weak moves,
Then as usual, it's expecting to be played the worst openings..
And for Top engines will be as soft touch to win the battle!
But in that case..as most important: who will win the war ?)

Btw, a good saying over:
“Sometimes it's fine to lose the battles to win the war”

In other words, if I'm going to summarize about it (in chess):
Many Champions lost some games, but managed to be best !)

On other hand,
In Computer chess, especially if testing 3500+ Elo engines,
E.g if your opening database is based, tuned to prefer many
Weak, critical opening moves, then no much chances at all...

Moreover,
To be successful in our great hobby..I think also that
It's required very hard but smarter work..e.g just via
Buying a new hardware or playing via latest Top engines,
Sounds like good, but it is NOT enough at all for sure!

In short,
Time and Learning are one of best weapons about all over!

Greetings )

[Homayoun]

As expected , Fritz 20 not so good not so bad. completely an average engine. I remember that before NNUE era Ginkgo was very good engine and I expected that by adapting NNUE it could be on top 10 ranking very easily but we see that this never happened yet.
Best regards

[Sedat Canbaz]

@ to Homayoun

Let Me say please just my two cents over...

Well, I am a Fritz user more than 2 decades and
Frankly, it's one of my favorite chess programs, exc.
That I used to organize many BIG tournaments..plus
I often used Fritz eng series for my analyzes too..

It's true also that in latest years (since my 2x Epyc 7B12)
I prefer more often Cutechess for tours..as reason, due to
Fritz has no GUI option of running parallel tour matches..

On other hand,
Fritz 20 is Top engine with rating close to 3700 Elo and
According to my other tours, it seems latest F20 is much
Improved (about 100-150 Elo in strength) than F19 version!
And I think also that this is a very serious eng progress!

Moreover,
Fritz 20 engine comes with own, newer chess GUI futures,
Which offers excellent options..such as to play on same PC
Or training or playing on online platforms..

Btw, one of the greatest, historical events in our hobby:
Deep Fritz is as last chess engine, which played officially
Vs World Champion Kramnik (in 2006), In other words,
Since Human lost to Computer..e.g after that period of time
No any other official 'Man vs Machine' match is organized...
And it seems also that it will remain so...

Greetings

[Homayoun]

Thanks Sedat. I haven’t bought Fritz 20 yet. But I will do it for sure. I have learned many things in chess from Fritz program too , specially when I was younger.
Best regards

[Sedat Canbaz]

Thanks Sedat. I haven’t bought Fritz 20 yet. But I will do it for sure. I have learned many things in chess from Fritz program too , specially when I was younger.
Best regards

Not at all Homayoun )

Yeah, definitely it is worth to have Fritz 20!

Greetings

[Sedat Canbaz]

Meanwhile,
Here another impressive results, where F20 performed
Even 218+ Elo stronger (in direct matches) vs older F19!
And theirs produced draws (via Unique suite) is just 42%

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Score of Fritz 19 vs Fritz 20: 4 - 283 - 213 [0.221]
...      Fritz 19 playing White: 4 - 114 - 132  [0.280] 250
...      Fritz 19 playing Black: 0 - 169 - 81  [0.162] 250
...      White vs Black: 173 - 114 - 213  [0.559] 500
Elo difference: -218.9 +/- 22.7, LOS: 0.0 %, DrawRatio: 42.6 %
500 of 500 games finished.

GAMES:
https://pixeldrain.com/u/nuH8rExA

Note: Exactly same conditions are used as recent LXIX

Btw, just I'd like to point out that too,
Zangdar 40.1 avx2 seems to be buggy, e.g crashed during official CS...
That's why Zangdar engine was out...


Greetings

[Homayoun]

[Sedat Canbaz]

Hello There,

As usual, I am pleased to announce that
Just another new Candidate tournament (30s+0.6s) is started:
Again up to 40 MB, where later...the Winner of this tour will
Be qualified /will be played (in Duel match) vs PlentyChess!

Note also that,
Zangdar 4.01 is the version by Jim Ablett and worked flawlessly..

Btw, here are the 1st LIVE rankings of Candidate CS, where Booot
Seems to be a serious candidate to be Winner of this competition:

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Rank Name                          Elo     +/-   Games   Score    Draw 
   1 Booot 7.4                     172      40     140   72.9%   48.6% 
   2 Texel 11.2                     70      42     136   59.9%   49.3% 
   3 Turbulence 4                   37      34     140   55.4%   65.0% 
   4 Zangdar 4.01                   33      40     137   54.7%   54.0% 
   5 Heimdall 1.3.2                 -8      39     135   48.9%   56.3% 
   6 Marvin 6.3.0                  -40      41     138   44.2%   50.7% 
   7 Reckless 0.7.0                -48      39     137   43.1%   55.5% 
   8 Wasp 7.07                     -51      40     138   42.8%   52.2% 
   9 Tucano 12                     -59      38     136   41.5%   56.6% 
  10 Sapling 1.2.7                 -99      37     137   36.1%   57.7% 

687 of 2700 games finished.

Conditions:
2x Epyc 7B12, CuteChess, Ponder OFF, 30s+0.6s, 1 Core, 64 Hash, 4 MEN
All engines are used to play via Unique suite: each opening played twice

Good luck to all and more updates very soon )

Greetings

[Sedat Canbaz]

UPDATE

Booot 7.4 is leading as before..
Really amazing.. more than 100-200+ Elo than others!

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Rank Name                          Elo     +/-   Games   Score    Draw 
   1 Booot 7.4                     171      27     327   72.8%   47.7% 
   2 Texel 11.2                     65      26     329   59.3%   51.1% 
   3 Zangdar 4.01                   35      25     330   55.0%   56.1% 
   4 Turbulence 4                   28      22     331   54.1%   65.3% 
   5 Heimdall 1.3.2                 -1      24     331   49.8%   60.4% 
   6 Wasp 7.07                      -3      26     332   49.5%   53.3% 
   7 Tucano 12                     -56      24     330   42.0%   57.9% 
   8 Reckless 0.7.0                -57      25     327   41.9%   56.3% 
   9 Marvin 6.3.0                  -82      25     329   38.4%   55.0% 
  10 Sapling 1.2.7                 -90      24     330   37.3%   57.6% 

1648 of 2700 games finished.

[Sedat Canbaz]

UPDATE 2

Candidate CS is over..Many thanks and Congrats to all!
Note also that current overall draw ratio is just: 56%

The Winner: Booot 7.4 - Congratulations to Alex Morozov!

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Rank Name             Elo    +    - games score oppo. draws 
   1 Booot 7.4       3695   16   16   540   73%  3539   46% 
   2 Texel 11.2      3614   16   16   540   60%  3548   52% 
   3 Zangdar 4.01    3589   16   16   540   56%  3551   57% 
   4 Turbulence 4    3578   16   16   540   54%  3552   63% 
   5 Wasp 7.07       3558   16   16   540   50%  3554   55% 
   6 Heimdall 1.3.2  3557   16   16   540   50%  3554   59% 
   7 Tucano 12       3511   16   16   540   43%  3559   57% 
   8 Reckless 0.7.0  3503   16   16   540   42%  3560   54% 
   9 Sapling 1.2.7   3470   16   16   540   36%  3564   56% 
  10 Marvin 6.3.0    3470   16   16   540   36%  3564   53% 

GAMES:
https://mega.nz/file/D14XGJBS#Z8TfP_QtN ... MfKe0etmas

And please stay tuned...very soon a new
Exciting Duel match: Booot vs Plentychess

Greetings