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Beauty of Computer Chess
INTRODUCTION
Nowadays millions of computer chess games are played each day either to create better datasets for neural networks or testing engine changes. And actually none of those millions of games is ever looked at because only the result matters, does the engine play stronger or not. And in those millions must be tens of thousands most interesting and beautiful games that will never see the daylight. I like to introduce a tool that filters large PGN collections and store the most interesting games in much smaller separate PGN's. Some examples :
Games with scores
Games without scores
Inspired by the idea of Stefan Pohl EAS tool one can even make a sort of rating list which engine is the best king attacker or overall most aggressive engine.
Our BoCC (Beauty of Computer Chess) tool takes a different approach, first of all the emphasis is not so much on the rating list but on the PGN output with scores and depths, secondly as first step it evaluates every game on KING-ATTACKS and applies a bonus, and third as second step it evaluates each game as shortie, not on the length of the game but on the point (move number) a game is considered won, the rest of the moves till mate is irrelevant.
The BoCC rating list versus the EAS rating list
Remarks
. On BoCC Patricia 4 dev is the best KING-ATTACKER.
. On BoCC Rebel Extreme Dev is the overall best aggressive engine.
. On EAS Chess System Tal 2.1 EAS is the overall best aggressive engine.
. However experience has learned me that playing the same 15.000 games on a faster computer or at a somewhat slower time control the first 3 places on BoCC can easily swap places, likewise for the 5 first places on EAS since its scores are so close.
. Therefore what really matters (to me, that is) are the output PGN's for each engine, included in the download and enjoy the games. These are the kind of games I fell in love with chess as a teenager, the Morphy style, attack......!
. To enter the BoCC list an engine must have won at least 100 games, else it will be ignored. Patrica 3.01 hardly made it with 103 won games, that's less than one percent of the 15.000 games it played.​
Coming up
Elo pool opponents 3500
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Previous (above) elo pool was 3578 CEGT elo, perhaps a bit too strong for the current 4 playing style engines Chess System Tal, Patricia, Velvet and Rebel. Hence we try another elo pool of 3500 to see if the results remain consistent and perhaps later, if needed, an elo pool of 3400.
Call for engines
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​If you know an engine with an emphasis on playing style please drop me a note and I might include it in my testing.
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