Code changes were tested to a very high level of confidence using LOS and SPRT (min. Website for chessengine-tests. 1) When UHO openings are used with classical scoring system (which is possible, but not recommended), the results are measureable better than using a classical opening set: The draw-rate is clearly lower (49.7 % only instead of 69.0 %) and the Elo-spreading is higher (160 Elo instead of 139 Elo). 25% amount of games, to get results out of the errorbar!). See the detailed and complete testing-results in the UHO_Testresults.txt -file in the Tests-folder of the download. - no manually constructed openings (like my Drawkiller openings), - no manually added moves to make castling impossible (like my NBSC openings), - no selection of piece-patterns (like my SALC openings (white and black castle to opposite sides of the board)). Average result of 3 NBSC Advanced Armageddon openings-sets (3, 4 and 5 moves): Elo spreading (SF 11 to SF 8): 318 Elo (bigger is better), Elo spreading (SF 11 to SF 8): 296 Elo (bigger is better). Stefan Pohls Opening Book for Testing Engines Download the 7moves-opening book (ShredderGUI and FritzGUI-version) Download 7 Moves Book: Stefan Pohls Hompage: KING OF CHESS … And the only filter, I am using, is the eval of Komodo in the endposition of each opening-line and that both queens are still on the board in each endposition. Stefan Zipproth: Chess GUI "Sirius" with Cerebellum interface, Website. GGT + Firebird wins Amar Gambit + related chess notes +, I should mention that I also made a few small fixes to fire. As you will see in testing-results below, the Advanced Armageddon Rescoring gives an Elo-spreading of the results, which is around 2x bigger, than using the classical chess-scoring. And I recognized, that many of them dont like openings, which were constructed (my Drawkiller openings for example) or changed manually (like my NBSC openings, where black is not allowed to castle short). 2) My Advanced Armageddon scoring system, which considers the fact, that the UHO and NBSC openings give white a clear advantage, shoots the results into another dimension: a) The Elo-spreading is doubled (which means, you have to play only. But do not use them unfiltered – they contain very bad lines for white and black! They say, that is no "real chess". Or for seeing the testing-results directly here on screen, click here, All work done by Stefan Pohl (SPCC) www.sp-cc.de, The idea of the UHO (Unbalanced Human Openings) openings is quite simple. SPCC: Testruns of BrainFish 160610 and 160712 finished by Stefan Pohl, CCC, July 24, 2016; BrainFish / Cerebellum-Library by A. Turkoglu, FishCooking, July 24, 2016; Brainfish, a new concept of a chess … It supports Syzygy Bases, and includes a revamped memory management which uses OpenMP #pragmas to utilize thread local storage and minimize the amount of 'shared' resources among threads for its SMP implementation. 200,000 - 240,000 ultra-fast games per day [6]. c) There are no draws anymore...The draw-rate is always 0%. Then I did a lot of pre-tests, to find out, which eval-interval is giving the best results (best Elo-spreadings in a test round-robin of Stockfish 8-11). 40,000 games) against a pool of top engines. opening-lines (4, 6 and 8 moves deep). I do not agree with that personally, but I decided to try building openings-sets, which are working like NBSC (white has a clear advantage) and can be (because white has a clear advantage at the beginning of the game) rescored with my Advanced Armageddon Scoring system for extremly high Elo-spreadings, which makes the rakings in a test/tournament much more reliable with a lower number of played games, but are complete unmodified and 100% human. Here a short summary of my testings and comparsions to classcial openings-sets (followed by the complete testing-results): 2'+1'', Singlethread, i7-8750H Hexacore mobile CPU, 256MB Hash, cutechess-cli. Fire 6.1, released in September 2017, added approximately 30-40 Elo in playing strength [8]. And I recognized, that many of them dont like openings, which were constructed (my Drawkiller openings for example) or changed manually (like my NBSC openings, where black is not allowed to castle short). Development and testing included approx. asmFish, a port of Stockfish in x86-64 assembly by Mohammed Li, optional using AVX2 and BMI2 instructions, assembled with FASM to run under Windows or UNIX/Linux, first released in June … According to a CCC posting by anonymous poster cucumber in September 2020, Fire 4 was later released as open source engine Seagull based on Gull, hiding its Fire 4 origin [7]. Average results of 3 Unbalanced Human Openings (UHO) sets (4, 6 and 8 moves): Elo spreading (SF 11 to SF 8): 160 Elo (bigger is better). See their chess rating, follow their best games, and challenge them to a play game. But no filtering was done. 250 games vs. each of the 3 opponents = 1500 games per testrun. Then I filtered all endpositions out, with that eval-interval. Testers. Stefan Pohl - Computer Chess. So, these files can be used to create own opening-set or books, by filtering these raw-data files by eval or by Elo or both. Fire – the chess engine releases a new version, Firebird (database server) from Wikipedia, The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education - FIRE, Use Thread-local Storage to Reduce Synchronization | Intel® Developer Zone, https://www.chessprogramming.org/index.php?title=Fire&oldid=21416, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0). Chess Engines Ratinglist. In all these PGN/EPD-files, the games are sorted by Elo of the players: Both players 2600 Elo or better, followed by 2500 Elo or better, followed 2400 Elo or better, followed by 2300 Elo or better. Testing was done via massive parallel, automated 24/7 ultra-fast chess engine matches using Cutechess-cli and LittleBlitzer. Fire 4, released in December 2014, was a compete re-write and does not use any source code from or related to Ippolit. Chess Artist by Ferdinand Mosca; Book Learning; Opening Book; Stockfish Derivatives; Forum Posts. Aditionally, I added the non-filtered raw-data to the download. Code changes were tested to a very high lev… Chad 8ply, Stockfish Framework 8moves, Hert 500). This page was last edited on 23 September 2020, at 21:37. Fire 4, released in December 2014, was a compete re-write and does not use any source code from or related to Ippolit. game, than a high evaluation in the endposition of the opening-lines. Stefan Pohl SPCC. CEGT - Chess Engines Grand Tournament. There you find all played test-games, too. On September 18, 2020, Ethereal author Andrew Grant published a Fire 7.1 GPLv3 Source Request in CCC, since he believes that some or all of Fire is likely to fall under the GPLv3, as it is inherited from Stockfish's GPLv3 license [11].