CCRL 40/4
Downloads and Statistics
August 25, 2008
Testing summary:
Total: 333'259 games
played by 663 programs
5017 CPU days (X2 4600+)

White wins: 126'802 (38.0%)
Black wins: 100'944 (30.3%)
Draws: 105'513 (31.7%)
White score: 53.9%

Thanks

Contributors

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

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

Shaun Brewer 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 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. 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, Leen Ammeraal, Volker Annuss, Edsel Apostol, Stan Arts, Amir Ban, Christian Barreteau, Ryan Benitez, Uri Blass, Volker Bohm, Michael Borgstadt, Ross Boyd, Martin Bryant, Dieter Burssner, Shay Bushinsky, Vadim Bykov, Carlos del Cacho, Pedro Castro, Fabio Cavicchio, Piotr Cichy, Anthony Cozzie, David Dahlem, Martin Danielsson, Jon Dart, Antonio Dieguez, Dusan Dobes, Jerry Donald, Chrilly Donninger, Patrice Duhamel, Philippe Fabiani, Andrew Fan, Ubaldo Farina, Peter Fendrich, Helmut Fett, Martin Fierz, Sune Fischer, Tim Foden, Chris Formula, Klaus Friedel, Jean-Christophe Gabillard, Thomas Gaksch, Jose Carlos Martinez Galan, Scott Gasch, Martin Giepmans, Fritz Grau, Thorsten Greiner, Neels Groenewald, Gabriel Guillory, Sam Hamilton, Bas Hamstra, Andreas Herrmann, Dan Homan, Peter Horvath, Rudolf Huber, Robert Hyatt, Miguel Izquierdo, Christophe Jolly, William Mowery Jr., Pradu Kannan, Francois Karr, Jean-Philippe Karr, Niyaz Khasanov, Jan Klima, Johan de Koning, Roman Korba, Alexey Korneychuk, Igor Korshunov, Jonathan Kreuzer, Fabien Letouzey, Tom Likens, Anton Lindenmair, Gary Linscott, Dominique Longbien, Bruno Lucas, Eric Marathee, Sergei Markoff, Mariusz Marszalkowski, Steve Maughan, Thomas Mayer, Peter McKenzie, Daniel Mehrmann, Denis Mendoza, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Anastasios Milikas, Alex Morozov, Frans Morsch, Ferdinand Mosca, H.G. Muller, Ron Murawski, Aleksandar Naumov, Pallav Nawani, Sergei Nefedov, Jesper Nielsen, Eric Oldre, Yuri Osipov, Rahman Paidar, Gian-Carlo Pascutto, Arkadiusz Paterek, Lance Perkins, Maciej Pestka, Ilari Pihlajisto, Richard Pijl, Teemu Pudas, David Rabel, Vasik Rajlich, Gerrit Reubold, Fritz Reul, Jean-Francois Romang, Tord Romstad, Toma Roncevic, Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz, Ralf Schafer, Frank Schneider, Ed Schroder, Alessandro Scotti, Antonio Senatore, Daniel Shawul, Michael Sherwin, Allard Siemelink, Will Singleton, Kai Skibbe, Steen Suurballe, James Swafford, Christophe Theron, Nathan Thom, Eric Triki, Ulrich Turke, Mark Uniacke, Engin Ustun, Per-Ola Valfridsson, Andres Valverde, Tom Vijlbrief, Zach Wegner, Dan Wulff, Franck Zibi, 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 25, 2008