IPON-Rating-List

Playing conditions: No anonymus engines or engines with deliberatly 'false' programmer names are accepted! Ponder : ON CPU : 3.2 GHz Phenom2 (x6) Operating system : XP-64 Cores : All Engines with 1 core Hash : 256 MB Table-/Shredder-/Bitbases : 4 pieces Cache for Tbs : 64 MB Time control : 5 min/game + 3 sec/move (mean game length ~ 16 Minutes) Openings : 75 different opening positions (no books) (50 positions before 2012.01.28) Positions : Changing colors (150 games engine vs engine) Learning : OFF Currently only 6 Core AMD Phenom2 are used for the main match. Elo are fixed to 2800 for Shredder 12. All other engines are derived from that fixed number. The Elo numbers shown here do not correlate to human ratings Enignes are tested in 64 bit and SSE4.2 if available. 32 bit Enignes are marked with 32b 1. All new entries will play 2850 games vs 20 best single engines. 2. In general, only the best programm of one kind/programmer is beeing tested. This means if there is a successor for an engine the weaker version is no longer tested.If two version are VERY close some additional games might be played. 3. Where possible the games are played with the current Shredder Classic GUI, Chessbase engines have to run in their own GUI. WinBoard engines as an exception, as every engine needs a distinct configuration. 4. Engines from the same author will only be added in reasonable time intervals as this list should not be abused for betatests. If a new enigne is released right after the previous version was included an exception might be considered. 5. The range of tested engines is the top 20 from top down. To verify if a new enigne is in that range a short internal test will be made.

General remarks: This rating list is made for my privat enjoyment! If you like it as it is I am happy to provide it, if you don't, I am sorry. Nonetheless I will listen to any good argument about what could be improved or might be wrong. I will not provide games at the moment. If you dont like that please remember the lines above.