CCRL 40/4
Downloads and Statistics
August 28, 2010
Testing summary:
Total: 670'332 games
played by 925 programs
10177 CPU days (X2 4600+)

White wins: 259'771 (38.8%)
Black wins: 206'654 (30.8%)
Draws: 203'907 (30.4%)
White score: 54.0%

Thanks

Contributors

Following people submitted games to CCRL 40/4 database: Shaun Brewer, Kirill Kryukov, Gabor Szots, Adam Hair, Ray Banks, Chuck Wilson, Aser Huerga, Denis Mendoza, Graham Banks, Cody Rowland, Dom Leste, Martin Thoresen, Tom Logan, Chris Taylor, Charles Smith.

Kirill Kryukov and Shaun Brewer automated statistical analysis and designed the web-site, with lot of useful feedback from other team members.

Shaun Brewer, Ray Banks and Kirill Kryukov maintained the game database and published updates.

Authors of chess software we used

We want to thank Martin Blume for creating Arena - a great free chess interface. We also want to thank Matthias Gemuh for creating ChessGUI - another great free chess interface. We also used commercial interfaces: Chessbase interfaces, Shredder GUI by Stefan Mayer-Kahlen and Engine Research Tool by Lokasoft.

Odd Gunnar Malin made very useful adapters Wb2Uci and InBetween.

Eugene Nalimov and Andrew Kadatch created "Nalimov Tablebases". Daniel Shawul created Scorpio bitbases. Miguel Ballicora created Gaviota tablebases. We also thank members of EGTB Online project for making those endgame tablebases freely available online.

We are grateful to Harry Schnapp, Sedat Canbaz, Wael Deeb, Christopher Conkie, Mike Scheidl for creating high quality opening books we used in testing.

Most of all we would like to thank developers of all the chess engines we tested: Enrique Sanchez Acosta, Richard Allbert, Peter Alloysius, Juan Pablo Fernandez Alvarez, Leen Ammeraal, Volker Annuss, Benny Antonsson, Edsel Apostol, Stan Arts, Miguel Ballicora, Amir Ban, Christian Barreteau, Max Bauer, Aaron Becker, Ryan Benitez, Albert Bertilsson, Aart Bik, Norman Blais, Uri Blass, Erdi Ata Bleda, Volker Bohm, Ivan Bonkin, Michael Borgstadt, Borko Boskovic, Ross Boyd, Lucas Braesch, Oliver Brausch, Jan Brouwer, Martin Bryant, Dieter Buerssner, Romain Burgot, Shay Bushinsky, Vadim Bykov, Carlos del Cacho, Carmelo Calzerano, Pedro Castro, Fabio Cavicchio, Vadim Chizhov, Piotr Cichy, Philipp Classen, Federico Corigliano, Claudio Della Corte, Marco Costalba, Remi Coulom, Anthony Cozzie, Stuart Cracraft, Don Cross, David Dahlem, Don Dailey, Tijs van Dam, Alessandro Damiani, Martin Danielsson, Jon Dart, Ben Dean-Kawamura, Vadim Demichev, Antonio Dieguez, Dusan Dobes, Jerry Donald, Alejandro Dubrovsky, Patrice Duhamel, Philippe Fabiani, Andrew Fan, Ubaldo Farina, Peter Fendrich, Helmut Fett, Martin Fierz, Guillermo Filia, Sune Fischer, Tim Foden, Chris Formula, Josue Forte, Klaus Friedel, Jean-Christophe Gabillard, Philippe Gailhac, Thomas Gaksch, Jose Carlos Martinez Galan, Dr. Onno Garms, Jean-Francois Gazet, Matthias Gemuh, Mincho Georgiev, Martin Giepmans, Marco Giusfredi, Fritz Grau, Thorsten Greiner, Gabriel Guillory, Sam Hamilton, Bas Hamstra, Roman Hartmann, Raimund Heid, Luca Hemmerich, Andreas Herrmann, Dan Homan, Dan Honeycutt, Peter Horvath, Rudolf Huber, Shane Hudson, Robert Hyatt, Werner Inmann, Miguel Izquierdo, Balazs Jako, Harald Johnsen, Christophe Jolly, William Mowery Jr., Pradu Kannan, Francois Karr, Jean-Philippe Karr, Tom Kerrigan, Niyaz Khasanov, Joona Kiiski, Patrick M. King, Tom King, Jan Klima, Marek Kolacz, Chua Kong-Sian, Johan de Koning, Roman Korba, Alexey Korneychuk, Evgeniy Korniloff, Igor Korshunov, Pawel Koziol, Hans-Joachim Kraas, Jonathan Kreuzer, Sylvain Lacombe, Fabien Letouzey, Tom Likens, Jacob Bors Lind, Gary Linscott, Alex Lobanov, Dominique Longbien, Robert Lubczynski, Bruno Lucas, Harald Luessen, Stef Luijten, George Lyapko, Andres Manzanares, Eric Marathee, Sergei Markoff, Steve Maughan, Anton Maydell, Thomas Mayer, Peter McKenzie, Matt McKnight, Vladimir Medvedev, Daniel Mehrmann, Johan Melin, Denis Mendoza, John Merlino, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Anastasios Milikas, Chris Moreton, Alex Morozov, Frans Morsch, Ferdinand Mosca, Edmund Moshamer, H.G. Muller, Ron Murawski, Luca Naddei, Aleksandar Naumov, Pallav Nawani, Sergei Nefedov, Pham Hong Nguyen, Jens Baek Nielsen, Eric Oldre, Marco Pagnoncelli, Rahman Paidar, Gian-Carlo Pascutto, Arkadiusz Paterek, Lance Perkins, Maciej Pestka, Roland Pfister, Ilari Pihlajisto, Richard Pijl, Robert Pope, Rudolf Posch, Marcus Prewarski, Teemu Pudas, David Rabel, Landon W. Rabern, Vasik Rajlich, David Rasmussen, Adrien Regimbald, Gerrit Reubold, Fritz Reul, Luigi Ripamonti, Nicola Rizzuti, Charles Roberson, Erik Robertsson, Jean-Francois Romang, Tord Romstad, Toma Roncevic, Peter Rosendahl, Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz, Severi Salminen, Maurizio Sambati, Aleksandrs Saveljevs, Ralf Schaefer, Ralf Schafer, Frank Scharn, Francois Scheurer, Norman Schmidt, Frank Schneider, Ed Schroder, Gunther Schrufer, Alessandro Scotti, Antonio Senatore, Fermin Serrano, Daniel Shawul, Michael Sherwin, Grzegorz Sidorowicz, Allard Siemelink, Will Singleton, Kai Skibbe, Samuel Slutzky, Vlad Stamate, Marek Strejczek, Steen Suurballe, James Swafford, Antoni Szczepanski, Omid David Tabibi, Franck Tempet, Christophe Theron, Nathan Thom, Eric Triki, Ulrich Turke, Mark Uniacke, Per-Ola Valfridsson, Andres Valverdes, George Varentsov, Pablo Vazquez, Koundinya Veluri, Joel Veness, Stephan Vermeire, Richard Vida, Tom Vijlbrief, Martin Villwock, Zach Wegner, David Weller, Laurens Winkelhagen, Dan Wulff, Franck Zibi, Georg v. Zimmermann, Stefan Zipproth, Johannes Zwanzger.

Software we used for database management, statistics, game analysis, web-site publishing and communication

We want to thank Remi Coulom for creating a wonderful tool Bayeselo. We use it to compute our rating lists, LOS figures and performances.

David J. Barnes created PGN Extract which we use to perform opening classification of our game database.

Our statistics and processing is automated using Perl language, particularly ActivePerl distribution.

We used following great software for file and database management:

Other incredibly useful free software we use every day:



Created in 2005-2008 by CCRL team
Last games added on August 28, 2010