CCRL 404FRC
Downloads and Statistics
March 30, 2008
Testing summary:
Total: 26'100 games
played by 35 programs
206 CPU days (X2 4600+)

White wins: 10'705 (41.0%)
Black wins: 9'696 (37.1%)
Draws: 5'699 (21.8%)
White score: 51.9%

Thanks

Contributors

Following people submitted games to CCRL 404FRC database: Ray Banks.

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

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 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: Volker Annuss, Uri Blass, Volker Bohm, Niyaz Khasanov, Fabien Letouzey, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Anastasios Milikas, Aleksandar Naumov, Gian-Carlo Pascutto, Vasik Rajlich, Fritz Reul, Tord Romstad, Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz, Ralf Schafer, Alessandro Scotti, Mark Uniacke, Franck Zibi.

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 2005-2007 by CCRL team
Last games added on March 30, 2008