Stefan Pohl Computer ChessHome of famous UHO openings and EAS RatinglistLatest Website-News (2026/07/13): Testrun of Stockfish 260706 finished: +11 Celo to Stockfish 260614 - huge progress! Stockfish 260706 won the 500 gamepairs vs. Stockfish 18 very clearly: +175 =284 -41 Testrun of Cinder 0.5.1 finished: New engine, entered the UHO-Top15 Ratinglist and kicked Caissa 1.25 out. PZChessBot 7.1, Heimdall 1.5 and Prune 4.0.1 failed to enter the UHO-Top15 Ratinglist.
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: The first (strong) engine built by AI: Coda 0.9.0 (dev version)
My 2 cents about AI generated engines: AI doing the coding is the future of programming - no doubt about that, IMHO. Additionally, as I tester, I have the problem, that (in the future) it will be impossible to figure out, if an engine was AI-coded or done by humans, if the "author" wants to hide the truth... and what about a mix of AI-code and human-code in one engine? Where is the borderline? So, I decided to test AI-generated engines, too. As long as I know, that an engine was done by AI, I will add "AI" to the engine-name in my Ratinglist. We will see, what the future brings. If AI generated engines flood the ratinglists, a thinkover could be necessary, of course.
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: 2026/07/13: Stockfish 260706 (+11 Celo to Stockfish 260614) and Cinder 0.5.1 (new engine)
(Ordo-calculation fixed to Stockfish 18 = 3873 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 See the old SPCC-Ratinglist (full list) and EAS-List from 2020 until 2023/08/28: here
(best Stockfish Celo: Stockfish 260706: 3902 Celo, latest full release (Stockfish 18) has 3873 Celo) Program Celo + - Games Score Av.Op. Draws 1 Stockfish 260706 : 3902 4 4 15000 68.3% 3765 48.2%
Games : 120000 (finished) 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(%)
------------------------------------------------------------------- Aborted testruns, because the tested engine was too weak to enter the UHO-Top15 Ratinglist: Icarus 1.1, Heimdall 1.5, Renegade 1.2.0, Igel 3.6.0, Minic 3.41, Booot 7.3, Black Marlin 9.0, Equisetum 1.0, Clarity 8, PZChessBot 7.1, Prune 4.0.1 Below you find a diagram of the progress of Stockfish in my tests since February 2026. And below that diagram, the older diagrams.
You can save the diagrams on your PC with mouseclick (right button) and then choose "save image"...        
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