New engine releases & news H2 2025

[Graham Banks]

Should be around 2000 Elo.

Okay. I got interested by this:

Opponent Time Control Games Elo estimate
Stockfish 17 40/120 ~1000 2450

[ZlomenyMesic]

Yeah, I measured that with both UCI_Elo and Skill Level options in SF 17, but it looks like these might be based on human strength or something like that, as my engine performs surprisingly well against it.

[Damir]

Quanticade Cronus 3.0
https://github.com/Quanticade/Quanticade
by Martin Botka, Slowakia

Hope all is right now, at last I wrote nonsense to Quanticade (wrong name of the programmer).
Sorry to Martin again, and thanks for Quanticade!

Hi Frank

I am having problems with Quanticade Cronus. The engine will resign the game by itself in draw positions, with a message '' engine caused exception''. I am using the engine on Fritz/Chessbase server. The engine does not appear to be stable. I hope the author takes the look and try to fix the problem.

[Sylwy]

I am having problems with Quanticade Cronus. The engine will resign the game by itself in draw positions, with a message '' engine caused exception''. I am using the engine on Fritz/Chessbase server. The engine does not appear to be stable. I hope the author takes the look and try to fix the problem.

Works perfectly in Arena 3.5.1 GUI. A short match (100 games) versus Fritz 20 is here:

viewtopic.php?t=81223&start=490

[Sylwy]

Yeah, I measured that with both UCI_Elo and Skill Level options in SF 17, but it looks like these might be based on human strength or something like that, as my engine performs surprisingly well against it.

viewtopic.php?p=987032#p987032

[Modern Times]

Quanticade Cronus 3.0
https://github.com/Quanticade/Quanticade
by Martin Botka, Slowakia

Hope all is right now, at last I wrote nonsense to Quanticade (wrong name of the programmer).
Sorry to Martin again, and thanks for Quanticade!

Hi Frank

I am having problems with Quanticade Cronus. The engine will resign the game by itself in draw positions, with a message '' engine caused exception''. I am using the engine on Fritz/Chessbase server. The engine does not appear to be stable. I hope the author takes the look and try to fix the problem.

Odd, it must be something specific to that situation. I played 3000 blitz 120+1 games (one thread) with it without any issue. I presume you're using a longer time control or several threads ?

[Damir]

Yes I use several threads and 30+10 time control, when playing on Chessbase server.

[Modern Times]

Yes I use several threads and 30+10 time control, when playing on Chessbase server.

Is it perhaps the very large number of UCI options that chessbase GUI can't handle ?