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Edition 21

started in …
since Edition 16 there is a new TC 40/4 (adapted to CCRL) … for more … look here Conditions
engines in bold letters are updated since last edition

order of starting
- from last Edition Div I 1-16: Stockfish, Komodo, Ethernal, Laser, Fizbo, Booot, Andscacs, Xiphos, Gull, Schooner, RofChade, ~~Nirvana~~, Hannibal, Texel, Senpai, iCE
  - taken out:
  - bad results in similary test (>60%): Nirvana
results
- places 16-20 are demoted to Division II

order of starting
- from last Edition Div I 17-20: Pedone, Vajolet, SmarThink, Nemorino
- from last Edition Div II 4-16: Wasp, Arasan, Demolito, BrainVB, Pirarucu, BobCat, Cheng, Amoeba, Protector, Zuri, Crafty, Toga
- back from Holiday: 22k, Hakkapellita - last play Edition 19 Division C No 5-6 (for unknown reasons I simply forgot it in last Edition)
- from actually Edition Div III 1-4: Rodent, Gogobello, Rubi, Atlas
- joker entries: Slow, Igel, Minic, Combusken,
- guest: Lc0 0.24.1 dnni 591226 b7p0 (minibatchsize 7 instead of 256m max prefetch 0 instead of 32) - config already used by CCRL
results
- the best 6 are promoted to Division I
- places 17-25 are demoted to Division III

results
- the best 4 are promoted to Division II
- places 17-20 are demoted to Division IV

order of starting
- from last Edition Div II 17-20: Ex, Atlas, Dirty, Scorpio
- from last Edition Div III 9-16: Baron, Rubi, Rodent, Tucano, Gaviota, DayDreamer, Godel, DisasterArea
- from actually Edition Div IV 1-8: Gogobello, Winter, Monolith, Marvin, tomitank, RuyDos, Octo, ProDeo
- guest: Lc0 0.20.2 wd11258-112×9-se (just want to see if there is a better score versus stronger opponents)
results
- games of the guest-engine are taken out for decision who goes up or down
- the best 4 are promoted to Division II
- places 17-20 are demoted to Division IV

results
- the best 8 are promoted to Division III
- places 17-19 are taken out

order of starting (engines rated below ProDeo 2.2 at CCRL 40/04-list must be open source and >2500 Elo)
- see … https://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404/
- from last Edition Div III 17-21: Monolith, Marvin, RuyDos, Octo, Arminius
- from last Edition Div IV 6-16: Gogobello, ProDeo, Tornado, Karballo, Winter, Greko, Wyld, tomitank, Phalanx, RedQueen, NoraGrace
- taken out last Edition Div IV 17-20: Delocto, Donna, Danasah
- new entries:
  - Asymptote 0.42 and Asymptote 0.5
  - Topple 0.4 and Topple 0.5
  - Lc0 0.21.1 w50782-128×10
  - Lc0 0.21.0 w50700-128×10
  - Lc0 0.21.0 w36089-128×10 … https://lczero.org/networks
  - Lc0 0.20.2 wd32930-112×9-se
  - Lc0 0.20.2 wd11258-112×9-se … https://github.com/dkappe/leela-chess-weights/wiki/Distilled-Networks
results
- after tournament has ended only best Lc0 net will stay, others were taken out
- very shortly after end of tournament new versions of Asympote and Topple came out - they also Play here, but only new versions stay in, older ones are taken out
- the best 8 are promoted to Division III
- places 17-20 are taken out