Stefan Pohl Computer Chess

Latest Website-News (2026/02/16): Testrun of Halogen 16.0 finished. Halogen 16.0 entered the UHO-Top 15 Ratinglist and kicked Quanticade 3.0 out.

 

My gift to the community - a much better cutechessGUI. Made by Patrick Leonhardt (PlentyChess), payed for the work by me. Learn more about new cutechess on talkchess and download it right here 

Please mention, this is an early release, bugs are still possible - please report them on talkchess or contact me.

 

Ceres Binary here, Ceres Installation Guide here, Ceres Nets here

 

Dont forget to take a look at my EAS-Ratinglist (The world's first engine-ratinglist not measuring strength of engines, but engines's style of play).

 

Next testrun: Stockfish 260213

 

Stay tuned.

UHO-Top15 Engines Ratinglist (+ regular testing of Stockfish Dev-versions)

 

 

Playing conditions:

 

The 15 strongest engines and the latest StockfishDev version are playing 1000 games vs. each opponent: 15000 games per engine are played. A RoundRobin Tournament with 120000 games overall !

 

Hardware: AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 16-core (32 threads) notebook with 64GB RAM (since 2024/10/08), 2 identical machines. Windows 11 64bit

Speed: (singlethread, TurboBoost-mode switched off, chess starting position) Stockfish 17: 600 kn/s (when 26 games are running simultaneously)

Hash: 512MB per engine

GUI: Cutechess-cli (GUI ends game, when a 5-piece endgame is on the board, all other games are played until mate or draw by chess-rules (3fold, 50-moves, stalemate))

Tablebases: None for engines, 5 Syzygy for cutechess-cli

Openings: My UHO_2022_6mvs_+120_+129 openings are used (first 500 lines) (UHO 2022 openings are part of my Anti Draw Openings download-package). 

Ponder, Large Memory Pages & learning: Off

Thinking time: 3min+1sec per game/engine. One testrun (15000 games) takes around 80-85 hours (=3.5 days)

The version-numbers of the Stockfish engines are the date of the latest patch, which was included in the Stockfish sourcecode, not the release-date of the engine-file, written backwards (year,month,day))(example: 200807 = August, 7, 2020). The used SF compile is the AVX512-compile, which is the fastest on my AMD Ryzen CPU. SF binaries are taken from https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/releases (except the official SF-release versions, which are taken form the official Stockfish website).

Read the explanation, why I chose my testing-conditions, like I did here

 

Latest update: 2026/02/16: Halogen 16.0 (new engine, kicked Quanticade 3.0 out)

 

(Ordo-calculation fixed to Stockfish 17.1 = 3854 Celo. Mention, there are no human or "realistic" Elo numbers in enginechess, since the engines reached superhuman strength, so I decided to use "Celo" (=Computer Elo) instead)

 

See the tournament cross-table as a picture (done by Fritz20 GUI) here

See the individual statistics of engine-results here

See the Engines Aggressiveness Score Ratinglist here

See the Gamepair-statistics of the UHO-Top15 Ratinglist here

See the full UHO Ratinglist (with EAS-Ratinglist): here

Download the current gamebase, the full-list gamebase and the archive here

Download all interesting wins (filtered by EAS-Tool) from the full UHO Ratinglist here

See the old SPCC-Ratinglist (full list) and EAS-List from 2020 until 2023/08/28: here

 

(best Stockfish Celo: Stockfish 260110: 3876 Celo, latest full release (Stockfish 18) has 3873 Celo)

     Program                     Celo    +    - Games    Score   Av.Op. Draws

   1 Stockfish 18 260131       : 3873    4    4 15000    67.4%   3743   48.9%
   2 Stockfish 260204 a512     : 3871    4    4 15000    67.1%   3743   49.1%
   3 Reckless 260108 a512      : 3821    4    4 15000    60.3%   3746   48.9%
   4 Torch 4a a512             : 3815    4    4 15000    59.4%   3747   50.0%
   5 PlentyChess 7.0.37        : 3800    4    4 15000    57.3%   3748   48.5%
   6 Obsidian 250706 a512      : 3784    4    4 15000    54.9%   3749   50.4%
   7 Integral 250805 a512      : 3751    4    4 15000    50.1%   3751   50.5%
   8 Berserk 250606 a512       : 3736    4    4 15000    47.8%   3752   50.3%
   9 Alexandria 8.1.12 a512    : 3732    4    4 15000    47.3%   3752   50.5%
  10 Viridithas 19.0 a512      : 3723    4    4 15000    45.9%   3753   49.5%
  11 Caissa 1.24 a512          : 3692    4    4 15000    41.5%   3755   50.5%
  12 Clover 9.1 a512           : 3689    4    4 15000    41.0%   3755   51.1%
  13 KomodoDragon 3.3 avx2     : 3687    4    4 15000    40.8%   3755   49.5%
  14 Halogen 16.0 a512         : 3685    4    4 15000    40.5%   3755   49.4%
  15 Tarnished 5.0 a512        : 3679    4    4 15000    39.7%   3756   49.9%
  16 Pawnocchio 1.9 a512       : 3676    4    4 15000    39.1%   3756   50.5%
  
Games        : 120000 (finished)
White Wins   : 59183 (49.3%)
Black Wins   : 1017   (0.8%)
Draws        : 59800 (49.8%)

Below the UHO-Top15 Ratinglist, recalculated with Gamepairs (using my Gamepair Rescoring Tool V1.5), Ordo-calculation fixed to Stockfish 17.1 = 3854 Celo, realizing Vondele's (Stockfish Maintainer) idea: "Thinking uniquely in game pairs makes sense with the biased openings used these days. While pentanomial makes  sense it is a bit complicated so we could simplify and score game pairs only (not games) as W-L-D (a traditional score of 2-0, or 1.5-0.5 is just a W)."

Mention, the errorbar here is +/-5.5 Celo (=11 overall Error), compared to +/-4 Celo in the classical ratinglist above (=1.375 wider errorbar here). But the result-gaps are (at least) 2x up to 2.5x bigger (in average), calculating with gamepairs. So, the statistical reliability of the results is much better in the Gamepair-ratinglist, compared to the classical ratinglist...

CFS means Chance For Superiority in percent, calculated by ORDO.

See the head-to-head gamepair-statistics of the UHO-Top15 Ratinglist here

   # PLAYER                    :    Celo  Error   Pairs     W     D     L   (%)  CFS(%)
   1 Stockfish 18 260131       :    3873   ----    7500  5325  1948   227  84.0      85
   2 Stockfish 260204 a512     :    3867     11    7500  5272  1984   244  83.5     100
   3 Reckless 260108 a512      :    3723     11    7500  3812  2858   830  69.9     100
   4 Torch 4a a512             :    3710     10    7500  3713  2837   950  68.4     100
   5 PlentyChess 7.0.37        :    3671     10    7500  3277  3031  1192  63.9     100
   6 Obsidian 250706 a512      :    3634     10    7500  2882  3159  1459  59.5     100
   7 Integral 250805 a512      :    3560     10    7500  2122  3280  2098  50.2     100
   8 Berserk 250606 a512       :    3524     10    7500  1765  3295  2440  45.5      98
   9 Alexandria 8.1.12 a512    :    3516     10    7500  1707  3260  2533  44.5     100
  10 Viridithas 19.0 a512      :    3497     11    7500  1497  3318  2685  42.1     100
  11 Caissa 1.24 a512          :    3428     10    7500  1003  3020  3477  33.5      97
  12 KomodoDragon 3.3 avx2     :    3420     10    7500   962  2954  3584  32.5      64
  13 Clover 9.1 a512           :    3418     11    7500   909  3032  3559  32.3      77
  14 Halogen 16.0 a512         :    3415     10    7500   916  2962  3622  32.0     100
  15 Tarnished 5.0 a512        :    3397     11    7500   779  2918  3803  29.8     100
  16 Pawnocchio 1.9 a512       :    3385     11    7500   741  2780  3979  28.4     ---

 

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--- Number of all Gamepairs          : 60000 
--- Number of drawn Gamepairs overall: 23318 (= 38.86%) 
--- Number of 1:1 drawn Gamepairs    : 11392 (= 18.99%) 
--- Number of 2-draws drawn Gamepairs: 11926 (= 19.88%) 
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Aborted testruns, because the tested engine was too weak to enter the UHO-Top15 Ratinglist:

Heimdall 1.4.1, Renegade 1.2.0, Igel 3.6.0, Minic 3.41, Booot 7.3, Black Marlin 9.0, Equisetum 1.0, Clarity 8

Below you find a diagram of the progress of Stockfish in my tests since February 2023. 

And below that diagram, the older diagrams.

 

You can save the diagrams on your PC with mouseclick (right button) and then choose "save image"...