Rapid Chess Engine Tournament Stage 2, Stockfish, Dragon 3.1, Flaming Titz, and Berserk 9 Advance.

Posts : 880 Join date : 2020-11-25 Location : USA

Hardware: Threadripper 2950x, RTX 2080TI, 64 GBs Ram.

Tablebases = 7 man top 10.
Book 8 move EPD
GUI = Banksai
Hash = 8 GB.
16 Threads.
TC = 15m+10s
Format is all play all RR.
Default setting for all engines.

Players

1. Stockfish 170922
2. Dragon 3.1
3. Flaming Titz 230822
4. Berserk 9

Let's hope the trend will continue and that less pruning = better scaling is the key to progress for SF.

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Admin wrote:: Let's hope the trend will continue and that less pruning = better scaling is the key to progress for SF.

This tournament should lets us know. As FT is Stockfish of equal strength at 3m+2s. But winning clearly at 15m+10s by 24 Elo. 11 wins vs Stockfish and Dragons +7 score in stage 1.

Here is the Blitz results for FT vs SF for reference.

Code:: Result:
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  # name games wins draws losses score elo + -
  1. Stockfish 170822 200 3 196 1 101 1 17 17
  2. Flaming Titz 230822 AVX2 200 1 196 3 99 -1 17 17

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Day 1 results. The tournament should take about 10 days to complete.

Code:: Result:
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  # name games wins draws losses score% elo + -
  1. Flaming Titz 230822 14 1 13 0 53.6 16 90 90
  2. Stockfish 170922 13 1 12 0 53.8 13 94 93
  3. Dragon 3.1 15 1 14 0 53.3 5 87 87
  4. Berserk 9 14 0 11 3 39.3 -35 92 95

Cross table:
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  # name score% games 1 2 3 4
  1. Flaming Titz 230822 53.6 14 x ======---------------------------------- =====----------------------------------- 1==-------------------------------------
  2. Stockfish 170922 53.8 13 ======---------------------------------- x ===------------------------------------- ===1------------------------------------
  3. Dragon 3.1 53.3 15 =====----------------------------------- ===------------------------------------- x =====1=---------------------------------
  4. Berserk 9 39.3 14 0==------------------------------------- ===0------------------------------------ =====0=--------------------------------- x

Tech:
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Tech (average nodes, depths, time/m per move, others per game), counted for computing moves only, ignored moves with zero nodes:
  # name nodes/m NPS depth/m time/m moves time
  1. Flaming Titz 230822 249388K 9932597 52.3 25.1 52.5 1318.2
  2. Stockfish 170922 313799K 15136364 54.9 20.7 71.5 1481.5
  3. Dragon 3.1 339166K 16156697 47.1 21.0 72.3 1518.4
  4. Berserk 9 447198K 22390935 32.4 20.0 80.3 1603.5
   all --- 339254K 16222267 45.7 21.4 69.2 1481.1

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Current results after 111 games.

Code:: Result:
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  # name games wins draws losses score% elo + -
  1. Flaming Titz 230822 55 3 52 0 52.7 14 47 47
  2. Stockfish 170922 55 1 54 0 50.9 7 47 47
  3. Dragon 3.1 64 2 62 0 51.6 4 43 43
  4. Berserk 9 48 0 42 6 43.8 -25 51 52

Cross table:
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  # name score% games 1 2 3 4
  1. Flaming Titz 230822 52.7 55 x ====================-------------------- ===================--------------------- 1============11=------------------------
  2. Stockfish 170922 50.9 55 ====================-------------------- x ========================---------------- ===1=======-----------------------------
  3. Dragon 3.1 51.6 64 ===================--------------------- ========================---------------- x =====1===========1===-------------------
  4. Berserk 9 43.8 48 0============00=------------------------ ===0=======----------------------------- =====0===========0===------------------- x

Tech:
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Tech (average nodes, depths, time/m per move, others per game), counted for computing moves only, ignored moves with zero nodes:
  # name nodes/m NPS depth/m time/m moves time
  1. Flaming Titz 230822 251694K 11591227 56.0 21.7 66.4 1442.2
  2. Stockfish 170922 317117K 14360623 57.8 22.1 66.3 1465.1
  3. Dragon 3.1 333012K 15758880 48.3 21.1 74.0 1564.4
  4. Berserk 9 445379K 21966438 32.9 20.3 77.2 1565.4
   all --- 329013K 15828055 48.6 21.3 70.9 1509.7

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7 games left to play. Dragon 3.1 and Flaming Titz are still winning for the spots in Stage 3. A 200 game head to head match.

Code:: Result:
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  # name games wins draws losses score% elo + -
  1. Dragon 3.1 118 7 110 1 52.5 10 33 32
  2. Flaming Titz 230822 116 6 110 0 52.6 9 33 33
  3. Stockfish 170922 115 5 110 0 52.2 8 33 33
  4. Berserk 9 117 0 100 17 42.7 -28 33 33

Cross table:
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  # name score% games 1 2 3 4
  1. Dragon 3.1 52.5 118 x ======================================== =======================================0 =====1===========1======1===1==1=1=1==--
  2. Flaming Titz 230822 52.6 116 ======================================== x ====================================---- 1============11======111================
  3. Stockfish 170922 52.2 115 =======================================1 ====================================---- x ===1===============1==========11=======-
  4. Berserk 9 42.7 117 =====0===========0======0===0==0=0=0==-- 0============00======000================ ===0===============0==========00=======- x

Tech:
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Tech (average nodes, depths, time/m per move, others per game), counted for computing moves only, ignored moves with zero nodes:
  # name nodes/m NPS depth/m time/m moves time
  1. Dragon 3.1 328322K 15922981 48.6 20.6 77.3 1593.3
  2. Flaming Titz 230822 251481K 11686549 57.0 21.5 66.7 1435.6
  3. Stockfish 170922 323480K 14560761 58.6 22.2 65.3 1451.8
  4. Berserk 9 452785K 22110976 33.6 20.5 75.3 1542.5
   all --- 334335K 16184843 48.8 21.2 71.2 1506.4

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End of Match. Flaming Titz and Dragon 3.1 advance to stage 3. A 200 game head to head match.

Code:: Result:
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  # name games wins draws losses score% elo + -
  1. Flaming Titz 230822 120 6 114 0 52.5 9 32 32
  2. Dragon 3.1 120 7 112 1 52.5 9 32 32
  3. Stockfish 170922 120 5 115 0 52.1 8 32 32
  4. Berserk 9 120 0 103 17 42.9 -26 33 33

Cross table:
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  # name score% games 1 2 3 4
  1. Flaming Titz 230822 52.5 120 x ======================================== ======================================== 1============11======111================
  2. Dragon 3.1 52.5 120 ======================================== x =======================================0 =====1===========1======1===1==1=1=1====
  3. Stockfish 170922 52.1 120 ======================================== =======================================1 x ===1===============1==========11========
  4. Berserk 9 42.9 120 0============00======000================ =====0===========0======0===0==0=0=0==== ===0===============0==========00======== x

Tech:
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Tech (average nodes, depths, time/m per move, others per game), counted for computing moves only, ignored moves with zero nodes:
  # name nodes/m NPS depth/m time/m moves time
  1. Flaming Titz 230822 250812K 11611225 56.8 21.6 66.3 1432.3
  2. Dragon 3.1 328489K 15876009 48.5 20.7 76.8 1589.2
  3. Stockfish 170922 324167K 14529065 58.3 22.3 65.0 1450.1
  4. Berserk 9 454023K 22112162 33.6 20.5 74.8 1535.5
   all --- 334447K 16128039 48.8 21.2 70.7 1501.8