Half Sisters Strike Back

[MikeB]

5 related SF engines:
set eng1 = asmfish ( no variety!)
set eng2 = cfish
set eng3 = corchess
set eng4 = McCain-dev-042219 (updated since two days ago, commits not yet pushed to Github remote, need one more tuning run for the latest changes)
set eng5 = sugar

50 positions selected at random from a base of 200 hand picked positions that foster sharp ( but fair play), double RR, W&B, tc base 30 secs, inc 1.8 sec
About 10 hours on a 12 Core Mac Pro.

Updates every 8 minutes ( about 20 games):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0xr3pc1gmx7ch ... 1.txt?dl=1

Updates after every 40 games ( just about every two 2 rounds, about every 15 minutes notes or so)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gwpzcesin9qc2 ... a.txt?dl=1

PGN file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/khe6cvvcv5na0 ... s.pgn?dl=1

First Results:
Date: 04/22/19 : 03:49:22

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36 game(s) loaded
Rank Name                      Rating   Δ     +    -     #     Σ    Σ%     W    L    D   W%    =%   OppR 
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   1 CorChess 3.1 200419 64 P   3154   0.0  105  105    15    9.0  60.0    6    3    6  40.0  40.0  3091 
   2 McCain-dev 042219          3153   1.2  103  103    14    8.5  60.7    4    1    9  28.6  64.3  3095 
   3 Cfish 220419 64 POPCNT     3133  20.2  102  102    16    9.0  56.2    6    4    6  37.5  37.5  3092 
   4 S_XPrO 200419 64 POPCNT    3034  98.2  104  104    14    5.0  35.7    1    5    8   7.1  57.1  3120 
   5 asmFishX_2019-04-05_popc   3026   8.3  110  110    13    4.5  34.6    2    6    5  15.4  38.5  3120 
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36 game(s) loaded

[Leo]

Good to test these engines together.

[MikeB]

Good to test these engines together.

They are all are closely related ( obviously), but different s well. cfish nps is more than 10% faster and it's really not that far behind asmfish but much easier to maintain asmfish. Corchess is the engine to use for LTC in my book and you have to like what Marco has done with Sugar.
Dead even with respect to point scored between CorChess and cfish after 400 games amazingly.

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Final Results:
100 rounds and 1000 games completed...
Time control: 30 seconds + 1.8000 seconds
Target completion: 04/22/19 : 13:29:15
Date: 04/22/19 : 11:44:39
1000 game(s) loaded
Rank Name                      Rating   Δ     +    -     #     Σ    Σ%     W    L    D   W%    =%   OppR 
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   1 CorChess 3.1 200419 64 P   3118   0.0   21   21   400  212.5  53.1   91   66  243  22.8  60.8  3096 
   2 Cfish 220419 64 POPCNT     3117   0.5   20   20   400  212.5  53.1   85   60  255  21.2  63.8  3096 
   3 McCain-dev 042219          3095  22.1   20   20   400  196.0  49.0   70   78  252  17.5  63.0  3101 
   4 S_XPrO 200419 64 POPCNT    3093   2.3   21   21   400  195.0  48.8   76   86  238  19.0  59.5  3102 
   5 asmFishX_2019-04-05_popc   3078  14.4   20   20   400  184.0  46.0   60   92  248  15.0  62.0  3105 
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042219-1144[/code

Corchess won the tie break - head to head against cfish. McCain was able to beat up om asmfish and Sugar was able to beat up on McCain.  Only Corchess had a positive score against all of it opponents in this little  just for "fun" tournament.

[code]ResultSet-EloRating>d
   1 CorChess 3.1 200419 64 P  3118 400.0 ( 212.5 : 187.5)
                                    100.0 ( 51.5 :  48.5) Cfish 220419 64 POPCNT    3117
                                    100.0 ( 51.5 :  48.5) McCain-dev 042219         3095
                                    100.0 ( 54.5 :  45.5) S_XPrO 200419 64 POPCNT   3093
                                    100.0 ( 55.0 :  45.0) asmFishX_2019-04-05_popc  3078
   2 Cfish 220419 64 POPCNT    3117 400.0 ( 212.5 : 187.5)
                                    100.0 ( 48.5 :  51.5) CorChess 3.1 200419 64 P  3118
                                    100.0 ( 53.5 :  46.5) McCain-dev 042219         3095
                                    100.0 ( 54.0 :  46.0) S_XPrO 200419 64 POPCNT   3093
                                    100.0 ( 56.5 :  43.5) asmFishX_2019-04-05_popc  3078
   3 McCain-dev 042219         3095 400.0 ( 196.0 : 204.0)
                                    100.0 ( 48.5 :  51.5) CorChess 3.1 200419 64 P  3118
                                    100.0 ( 46.5 :  53.5) Cfish 220419 64 POPCNT    3117
                                    100.0 ( 43.0 :  57.0) S_XPrO 200419 64 POPCNT   3093
                                    100.0 ( 58.0 :  42.0) asmFishX_2019-04-05_popc  3078
   4 S_XPrO 200419 64 POPCNT   3093 400.0 ( 195.0 : 205.0)
                                    100.0 ( 45.5 :  54.5) CorChess 3.1 200419 64 P  3118
                                    100.0 ( 46.0 :  54.0) Cfish 220419 64 POPCNT    3117
                                    100.0 ( 57.0 :  43.0) McCain-dev 042219         3095
                                    100.0 ( 46.5 :  53.5) asmFishX_2019-04-05_popc  3078
   5 asmFishX_2019-04-05_popc  3078 400.0 ( 184.0 : 216.0)
                                    100.0 ( 45.0 :  55.0) CorChess 3.1 200419 64 P  3118
                                    100.0 ( 43.5 :  56.5) Cfish 220419 64 POPCNT    3117
                                    100.0 ( 42.0 :  58.0) McCain-dev 042219         3095
                                    100.0 ( 53.5 :  46.5) S_XPrO 200419 64 POPCNT   3093
ResultSet-EloRating>

PGN File:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hv8lb69t0d0s0 ... n.zip?dl=1

[Leo]

It seemed like asmfish had a lot of potential when it first came out. Very fast etc... I don't know what happened to its ability.

[S.Taylor]

Wow, from the heading, i thought it was from graham banks!

[MikeB]

Wow, from the heading, i thought it was from graham banks!

+1 , I was inspired by Graham's consistent creativity in naming his matches , he does a good job!

[Dann Corbit]

It seemed like asmfish had a lot of potential when it first came out. Very fast etc... I don't know what happened to its ability.

Once Mohammad left the project it started to decline. He was the genius behind it. In addition, something bad happened around June of 2017, and it has never fully recovered.
https://www.sp-cc.de/