Chess Engines Diary Tournament - CEDR 2024

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Little Beast 15 and Stockfish dev-20240803 Ivec wins New Strong Engines Test, by CEDR 09.08.2024
https://chessengines.blogspot.com/2024/ ... h-dev.html

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Baptism of fire of new versions of chess engines: Viridithas 14.0.0, Motor 0.7.0, Clover 7.1, Protej dev_20240805a, Heimdall 0.3, Pingu 4.0.0, Nectar 0.1.0, DeepBlunder 1.1.7
https://chessengines.blogspot.com/2024/ ... ns-of.html

Critter 1.6a engine - examiner. The best was the chess engine Motor 0.7.0 which won all games.

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Marauders 3.8 wins Fritz Strong Engines Test, by CEDR 2024.08.08-12
https://chessengines.blogspot.com/2024/ ... gines.html

Another test tournament of strong chess engines was won by Marauders 3.8. 14 wins without a defeat - a very good result. In 2nd place the Stockfish dev-20240803 engine and in 3rd place the Kookaburra 3.00 engine.

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HypnoS 030824 wins New Engines Tournament, by CEDR 12.08.2024
https://chessengines.blogspot.com/2024/ ... gines.html

As many as 30 engines played in the test tournament of new versions of chess engines. In 1st place was the HypnoS 030824 engine. Places 2-3 with the same score were shared by the Brainlearn 28.1 and Yuliana 5.0 engines.
For comparison, we added the "old" Critter 1.6a engine to the tournament.

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Rems EXP 150824 and Devre 6.0 wins Aquarium Swiss Tournament, by CEDR 2024.08.15 - 16
https://chessengines.blogspot.com/2024/ ... -wins.html

Since you like Swiss tournaments, today is another test. As usual, a chess number of games - that is, 64.
Two engines Rems EXP 150824 and Devre 6.0 scored 5.5 points each and took 1-2 place.
Of course, we are not overestimating this result because there were few games, but Devre's result is a huge surprise.

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HypnoS 120824 wins New Engines Tes, by CEDR 15.08.2024
https://chessengines.blogspot.com/2024/ ... es-by.html

As many as 34 new chess engines back tested in another big tournament. The HypnoS 120824 engine won by far. The 2nd-6th places were taken by engines: Rems 150824, Rems MPV 150824, JigSaw 5.9, Steel Fighter III and Rems EXP 150824.

The Radiance 3.2 and Euwe 1.0 engines had problems working in the Banksia GUI.

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CorChess dev-20240804 wins Fritz Strong Engines Test, by CEDR 12-17.08.2024
https://chessengines.blogspot.com/2024/ ... trong.html

The test tournament of new versions of the strongest chess engines was won by CorChess dev-20240804. In 2nd place was the Stockfish dev-20240803 engine. Shared places 3-5 were taken by the SF-PRO 05.08.2024, HypnoS 030824 and Stockfish 16.1 engines.

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"Baptism of fire" of new versions of chess engines: Devre 6.0, Spaghet BologNNese 1.0, MIDA 2.3.1 JA, Lynx 1.6.0, Euwe 1.0, Nectar 0.1.2, DeepBlunder 1.1.9 and Radiance 3.2
https://chessengines.blogspot.com/2024/ ... of_19.html

Critter 1.6a engine - examiner. The best was the chess engine Devre 6.0 which won 8-2.

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CorChess 20240804 and Rems 150824 wins Aquarium Swiss Tournament, by CEDR 18-19.08.2024
https://chessengines.blogspot.com/2024/ ... -wins.html

Another Swiss tournament was won by the CorChess 20240804 and Rems 150824 engines. Small number of games - 64 chess, but there were some interesting results. For example, Lc0 0.31.1 won against HypnoS 120824.
Unexpectedly, Lizard 10.5 won against YuliGM STRONG 180824.

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Rems 150824 and Deep Ripper -1 wins New Engines Test, by CEDR 18.08.2024
https://chessengines.blogspot.com/2024/ ... s-new.html

A small test tournament of new versions of chess engines. Places 1-2 were taken by the Rems 150824 and Deep Ripper -1 engines. Right behind them in places 3-4 were the Rems EXP 160824 and CorChess 20240804 engines.

An interesting fact is the participation of the Mephisto Gideon Professional (1993) engine.