ZaTour - Super League - Season 2
The Promotion League for ZaTour Season 2 has finished, with MinimalChess convincingly winning by a wide margin ahead of the rest:
N Engine Rtng Pts Gm SB X Elo Perf Mi Ki Ru Za Fa
1 MinimalChess 0.4.9 0 124.5 160 8285.25 0 +1424 77.8 ········································ 1101111=11011111110=1110==0111111=1101=1 100=1=11==11=1=10==01111===1===01101110= ==011111111110111111111=11111011111111=1 01==011111=1=111==1111==1111111111=11=11
2 KingSlayer 0 98.0 160 6036.50 0 +576 61.3 0010000=00100000001=0001==1000000=0010=0 ········································ 1===001101111110=00=011=00=10=01=0011111 =111111=11101111111=11111=111111111111== 111=1=1100011111==11111011==100=11111111
3 Rustic Alpha 3.1.112 0 93.5 160 6073.50 0 +432 58.4 011=0=00==00=0=01==10000===0===10010001= 0===110010000001=11=100=11=01=10=1100000 ········································ 111101101101011100111011111=10=10=00=1=1 111011111111111===1=111111=11=11111111==
4 Zahak 1.0.1 0 45.5 160 3162.25 0 -1104 28.4 ==100000000001000000000=00000100000000=0 =000000=00010000000=00000=000000000000== 000010010010100011000100000=01=01=11=0=0 ········································ 0=11==0=11=1=11110010011001==10010101110
5 FairyMax 0 38.5 160 3043.50 0 -1328 24.1 10==100000=0=000==0000==0000000000=00=00 000=0=0011100000==00000100==011=00000000 000100000000000===0=000000=00=00000000== 1=00==1=00=0=00001101100110==01101010001 ········································
It was soon apparent that MinimalChess had no match in this league. Kudos to Thomas (the author of the engine) for achieving such a leap in such a short time.
That also means that it is time for the Super League to kick in, with the following engines:
- Loki 3.5, CCRL rating: 2461, https://github.com/BimmerBass/Loki
- Zahak Rev a371bb8, CCRL rating: 2552, https://github.com/amanjpro/zahak
- Barbarosa 0.6.0, CCRL rating: 2495, https://github.com/nionita/Barbarossa
- Lozza 3, rating: 2572, https://github.com/op12no2/lozza
- Nalwald 1.9, rating: 2638, https://gitlab.com/tsoj/Nalwald
- CT800 v1.42 (wild-card), rating: 2449, https://www.ct800.net/
- MinimalChess 0.4.9 (qualified from the promotion league), CCRL rating: 1884, https://github.com/lithander/MinimalChessEngine
Loki and Barbarossa continue to use the same version that participated in the first season, Zahak is updated to revision a371bb8, which is the latest commit hash as of today (in the master branch), and it is some 100 Elo points stronger than version 4.0.
You might have noticed that Nalwald still uses 1.9 and not the latest which is 1.10, and that is because this is the latest submitted binary by the author, and we did not want to use a binary other than what was submitted. Same applies for MinimalChess, we use 0.4.9 and not 0.5.0 (which as per the author, they should be bit-per-bit identical). Last, but not least, I took the liberty to grant CT800 a wild-card to participate in the tournament.
The two engines that finish first and second, will meet in a 100 game long match for the ZuFi title!
Let the fun begin! All for beautiful chess games :)