Ceres Chess Engine

[mehmet1921]

Test made by dje (Lco Discord Channel)

Match of LC0 vs. Ceres (a new MCTS engine leveraging the LC0 backend)
LC0 version: lc0-v0.26.3, backend=cuda-fp16
LC0 options: 703810 with nncache=5000000, deumux backend (2 GPUs)
Ceres version: 0.8
Ceres options: default (also with 703810)
Hardware: dual Intel 6142 CPU with 2 A100 GPU
Time control: 120s+0.5s
Book: TCEC19
Tablebases: Syzygy 5+6 man
Adjudication: tablebases or 4 consecutive play both 350cp
Software: Ceres integrated tournament manager
Comment: These first published results for Ceres require independent community verification.
Comment: The realized NPS ratio of Ceres vs LC0 was 2.3 in this test.
Comment: Ceres strength is massively exaggerated in this unrealistic combination of small nets and big hardware.
Comment: Ceres will be released under GPL3 on Github on Dec 31, 2020 (today).

Tournament Results of Ceres1 versus LC0_0 in 102 games
Ceres1 wins: 33// Ceres1 draws 69// Ceres1 loses 0

# PLAYER : RATING ERROR POINTS PLAYED (%) CFS(%) W D L D(%)
1 Ceres1 : 0.0 ..... 67.5 102 66 100 33 69 0 68
2 LC0_0 : -128.6 .. 38.4 34.5 102 34 --- 0 69 33 68

White advantage = 107.97 +/- 20.04