I toast to LeelaqueenOdds and its creators. I raise my wine glass high and shout: Long live the queen. We have a queen!!

[Father]

… There are 20 seats at the table for 20 great humans who have been invited to dinner. The dish of the year: "LeelaQueenOdds." I wonder who will start the meal first, or will they let the dinner that has been laboriously prepared by a great team that created such a delicious and wonderful recipe get cold? Today is a special day, the threshold of 100,000 dishes has been crossed. I had the opportunity to meet the queen before the 10,000th dish. Since then, the taste of the dinner is getting more delicious and better every day. Today alone, more than 3,500 guests have been served, and in my country the day has only just begun. I raise my glass and toast to such a prodigious robot and to its creators. Long live the queen!! This is the list of guests that we eagerly await in the fairy tale dream world of the prodigious robot:

1 Carlsen, Magnus
NOR
2833 1990
2 Nakamura, Hikaru
USA
2802 1987
3 Gukesh D
IND
2787 2006
4 Caruana, Fabiano
USA
2783 1992
5 Erigaisi Arjun
IND
2777 2003
6 Abdusattorov, Nodirbek
UZB
2773 2004
7 Wei, Yi
CHN
2760 1999
8 Praggnanandhaa R
IND
2758 2005
9 Firouzja, Alireza
FRA
2757 2003
10 Nepomniachtchi, Ian
RUS
2753 1990
11 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar
AZE
2748 1985
12 So, Wesley
USA
2748 1993
13 Aronian, Levon
USA
2748 1982
14 Anand, Viswanathan
IND
2743 1969
15 Dominguez Perez, Leinier
USA
2741 1983
16 Fedoseev, Vladimir
SLO
2739 1995
17 Duda, Jan-Krzysztof
POL
2739 1998
18 Le, Quang Liem
VIE
2739 1991
19 Giri, Anish
NED
2737 1994
20 Ding, Liren
CHN
273

[lkaufman]

You will be very happy to hear that a new Leaderboard is online now, with updates every few minutes! This one starts with games on Feb. 27, the day the bot was updated with the new "Search Contempt" idea, which boosted it by about 200 elo. The ratings assumed for Leela are increased by 100 when Leela is Black and by 200 when Leela is White based on a survey of games since the upgrade. So for example at 3'2" Leela as White is 2650 and as Black is 2450 now. Leela can now play 27 games at once, and the strength keeps going up, these rating estimates (for Lichess blitz) are actually still conservative, any rating you earn here is well deserved by Lichess blitz standards. https://lqo.leumon.com/

[Father]

You will be very happy to hear that a new Leaderboard is online now, with updates every few minutes! This one starts with games on Feb. 27, the day the bot was updated with the new "Search Contempt" idea, which boosted it by about 200 elo. The ratings assumed for Leela are increased by 100 when Leela is Black and by 200 when Leela is White based on a survey of games since the upgrade. So for example at 3'2" Leela as White is 2650 and as Black is 2450 now. Leela can now play 27 games at once, and the strength keeps going up, these rating estimates (for Lichess blitz) are actually still conservative, any rating you earn here is well deserved by Lichess blitz standards. https://lqo.leumon.com/

Good afternoon, Mr. Larry Kaufman. This is a wonderful improvement in the leaderboard, even though my second place on the leaderboard has been erased and I don't even appear in the top 100. Therefore, I've already played 25 1-minute buller games without any time increment per move. It's strange, though: I don't appear on the list despite my performance of 11 draws and 14 losses, for a draw rate of 44%.
I also haven't found Hissha or the former top 1 leaderboards.

[lkaufman]

You will be very happy to hear that a new Leaderboard is online now, with updates every few minutes! This one starts with games on Feb. 27, the day the bot was updated with the new "Search Contempt" idea, which boosted it by about 200 elo. The ratings assumed for Leela are increased by 100 when Leela is Black and by 200 when Leela is White based on a survey of games since the upgrade. So for example at 3'2" Leela as White is 2650 and as Black is 2450 now. Leela can now play 27 games at once, and the strength keeps going up, these rating estimates (for Lichess blitz) are actually still conservative, any rating you earn here is well deserved by Lichess blitz standards. https://lqo.leumon.com/

Good afternoon, Mr. Larry Kaufman. This is a wonderful improvement in the leaderboard, even though my second place on the leaderboard has been erased and I don't even appear in the top 100. Therefore, I've already played 25 1-minute buller games without any time increment per move. It's strange, though: I don't appear on the list despite my performance of 11 draws and 14 losses, for a draw rate of 44%.
I also haven't found Hissha or the former top 1 leaderboards.

No games from before Feb 27 were included, LeelaQueenOdds is so much stronger now. The leader SuperEasy (Joel Benjamin) remains the same, he has already re-earned it. I haven't yet played since Feb. 27, I do plan to do so. As for why you aren't on there, I'm not sure what your new initial rating would be, but it might be that your 25 games haven't brought you above 1900 yet. I expect you will again be at a high place once you've played a hundred games or so. Note that the penalty for playing White is double what it was, based on results, so there is much more incentive to let Leela play White now.

[Uri Blass]

You will be very happy to hear that a new Leaderboard is online now, with updates every few minutes! This one starts with games on Feb. 27, the day the bot was updated with the new "Search Contempt" idea, which boosted it by about 200 elo. The ratings assumed for Leela are increased by 100 when Leela is Black and by 200 when Leela is White based on a survey of games since the upgrade. So for example at 3'2" Leela as White is 2650 and as Black is 2450 now. Leela can now play 27 games at once, and the strength keeps going up, these rating estimates (for Lichess blitz) are actually still conservative, any rating you earn here is well deserved by Lichess blitz standards. https://lqo.leumon.com/

Good afternoon, Mr. Larry Kaufman. This is a wonderful improvement in the leaderboard, even though my second place on the leaderboard has been erased and I don't even appear in the top 100. Therefore, I've already played 25 1-minute buller games without any time increment per move. It's strange, though: I don't appear on the list despite my performance of 11 draws and 14 losses, for a draw rate of 44%.
I also haven't found Hissha or the former top 1 leaderboards.

No games from before Feb 27 were included, LeelaQueenOdds is so much stronger now. The leader SuperEasy (Joel Benjamin) remains the same, he has already re-earned it. I haven't yet played since Feb. 27, I do plan to do so. As for why you aren't on there, I'm not sure what your new initial rating would be, but it might be that your 25 games haven't brought you above 1900 yet. I expect you will again be at a high place once you've played a hundred games or so. Note that the penalty for playing White is double what it was, based on results, so there is much more incentive to let Leela play White now.

I see that 3 or 4 games were enough to be at the bottom of the leaderboard so it is strange that 11 draws and 14 losses were not enough.
Maybe draw is 1/4 point and 11/4<3 so it was not enough

[Uri Blass]

I see

28 Catecan 2073 66 2025.03.12 1+0
that means after 66 games rating of 2073
Edit:After 10 minutes he improved his place to 27 with additional 6 games

27 Catecan 2093 72 2025.03.12 1+0

best at 1+0 is
19 BrittaBagels 2138 69 2025.03.12 1+0

unlike catecan he plays to win and sometimes win against LeelaQueenOdds

https://lichess.org/@/BrittaBagels/all

[Uri Blass]

Catecan continue to progress
With additional 6 games we have
23 Catecan 2107 78 2025.03.12 1+0
With 2 additional games we have
22 Catecan 2112 80 2025.03.12 1+0

[lkaufman]

Hi Uri,

I was wondering if you would like to arrange for a match between Leela Knight Odds and any of the eleven Israeli GMs currently rated over 2550 FIDE, to be played on a standard chessboard at a classical time control, probably 90' + 30", with you as the operator/transmitter? No need for any money or expense on your end, we just need to find a GM who will play for fairly modest prize money. We think that we have improved enough since the Benjamin match in January to have fairly even chances against a player modestly over 2550 even at 90'30". It can be anyone as long as they would be cooperative with broadcast needs and not difficult to deal with. I hope at some point we can even have a rook odds serious match with a GM, but I don't think we are quite there yet.

[Uri Blass]

Hi Uri,

I was wondering if you would like to arrange for a match between Leela Knight Odds and any of the eleven Israeli GMs currently rated over 2550 FIDE, to be played on a standard chessboard at a classical time control, probably 90' + 30", with you as the operator/transmitter? No need for any money or expense on your end, we just need to find a GM who will play for fairly modest prize money. We think that we have improved enough since the Benjamin match in January to have fairly even chances against a player modestly over 2550 even at 90'30". It can be anyone as long as they would be cooperative with broadcast needs and not difficult to deal with. I hope at some point we can even have a rook odds serious match with a GM, but I don't think we are quite there yet.

I found that practically only 9 out of the 11 israeli GM's are active players in fide(Boris Avrukh did not play a single game after 2019 when Boris Alterman also did not play a single game after 2020).

I will try to ask about it but it is not clear how much money you offer to pay for a match.(the term fairly modest prize money is unclear for me and without asking I guess usually players above 2550 will say no if the prize is too small).

[Uri Blass]

Here is my idea for prizes

1)6 Games at 90+30 and 1 game every day
2)prize for the GM is 64,000$ divided by 2^k when k is the number of half points the GM lose so if the GM win every game the GM win 64000$ but if the result is 3-3 that is what you expect the prize is only 1000$

Note that I did not ask if GM's agree to play in these conditions but if you are feel sure 6-0 result or something close to it is impossible then you believe that you are not taking a big risk and I guess that 64,000$ is probably money that you can pay in the worst case(personally I am not sure that a prepared GM above 2550 cannot win 6-0 in these conditions considering the fact that benjamin is weaker than 2550 and he did not play 90+30 and did not play a single game per day).