Best chess engines for Android

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Best chess engines for Android

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In this topic we will talk about stronger engines compiled for Android. I will add crosstables and PGN games about tornaments between 30 top engines (almost all SF derivatives) selected after a quick 10 games test against Cerberus, the gatekeeper: Private derivative 3000 ELO. If X cannot even beat it, cannot enter the main tournaments... All Android Stockfish and derivatives fans are welcome! Please add infos and links of engines working with Chess for Android 6.2.1 app and suggest fine tunings (books, tablebases, NN, settings) :)
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Blitz 3 mins +2 secs between 6 Top Android engines:

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Tournament by Chess for Android 6.2.1 and Arena 3.5.1 for Mac GUIs

All these engines are qualified by Cerberus 10-0

All games in PGN: https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=B0F79706 ... 27&o=OneUp
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2th Cerberus Android Tournament
3100-3400 ELO, including also engines that do not work on Windows 11 ARM64, macOS M1 and Linux ARM64

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All 210 games played thanks to Chess for Android 6.2.1 https://spoprod-a.akamaihd.net/files/fa ... icfile.png

Ethereal 13.41 github (without NNUE) is first. Cerberus (as always) is last and confirms to be the perfect Gatekeeper to beat to enter my SuperBlitz.
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3th 3600+ ELO engines Blitz Tournament
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All games in PGN: https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=B0F79706 ... 27&o=OneUp
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4th Cerberus Android engines Blitz Tournament (3 mins +2 secs /all)
All MikeB's 3600+ ELO Stockfish derivatives against Fat Fritz 2.0

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All 150 games in PGN: https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=B0F79706 ... 27&o=OneUp
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5th Cerberus Android engines Blitz Tournament

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ALL 100 PGN games: https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=B0F79706 ... 27&o=OneUp
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Match Android derivatives Cfish 210628 against CorChess 3 NN 211208

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All 10 games in PGN: https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=B0F79706 ... 27&o=OneUp

Last Cfish available because Ronald de Man isn't updating it anymore. Luckily Fat Tits by Chessman is a Cfish fork!!
Since Dragon 2.5.1 isn't available on Android, the ELO difference between SF derivatives and original chess engines is HUGE!
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Re: Best chess engines for Android

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Sixth Cerberus Android engines Blitz Tounament

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All games in PGN https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=B0F79706 ... 27&o=OneUp

Differently from mac M1 engines, that unfortunately are rarely updated by Acepoint.de, Android let me test the very latest updates, also of engines not running on Windows 11 ARM64 due to the unsupported AVX limit! :D

Igel 3.0.10 confirms his strength, while Bit-Genie 9 is a good candidate to partecipe to my SuperBlitz 3100+ ELO! Let see in a direct match against Cerberus.
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Bit-Genie 9 versus Cerberus

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Did not qualify for the SuperBlitz, but I like this engine and I'll continue to test next versions :)

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Kayra 1.0 vs Kayra 1.1 vs Stockfish dev vs Stockfish+ dev Android Snapdragon TC: 3 mins + 1 sec / all 626 8 CPU +-500 Kn/s

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ALL PGN GAMES https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=B0F79706 ... 27&o=OneUp
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