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Dear Chess Friends,

I am pleased to announce,
I started a new + 50% similarity knockout tournament (3m+1s)
Let's see who will be this time: SCCT's Similarity Champion )?
And soon I plan to publish the tournament results...

Note that,
This time I preferred to test those chess engines as participants:
Which almost all of them passes +50 % similarity to Rybka, Stockfish

For example,
You may look at current players, which are +50% close to Rybka 3:
http://www.sedatcanbaz.com/chess/games/Rybka3simtest.txt

The Top engines like Houdini, Gull... are not participants due to,
They are +100 Elo stronger than Rybka 3

And if anybody is missed (in the below participation list),
I am sorry that I did not include your engine...
Note also that as far possible I picked those chess engines:
- which are released after Rybka 3 and approx. 3000 Elo and above

And here are the current 40 participants:

BlackMamba 2.0 x64 by Matteo D'Annibale, Maurizio Platino
Bouquet 1.8 x64 by Jose M Velasco
Critter 1.6a x64 by Richard Vida
Cyclone xTreme by Kranium
Don 020115 x64 by Ehsan Rashid
Elektro 1.2 x64 by Roberto Munter
Equinox 3.30 x64 by Giancarlo Delli Colli
Firenzina 2.3.2 xTreme x64 by Kranium, Yuri Censor and ZirconiumX
Fritz 14 by Gyula Horváth
Hannibal 1.5 x64 by Sam Hamilton & Edsel Apostol
Heron impossible 1 x64 by Seyyed Mostafa Khatami
Ippolit 0.080c by Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin
IvanHoe 99946h6 x64 by Decembrists
LEOpard 0.7c by Daneel Olivaw
Loop 2007 x64 by Fritz Reul
Mars 3.36 x64 by Trap
MinkoChess 1.3 x64 by Borko Boskovic
Murka 3 x64 Igor Korshunov
Naum 4.6 x64 by Aleksandar Naumov
Octochess r5190 x64 Tim Kosse
Onno 1-2-70 x64 by Onno Garms
PanChess 00.611 x64 by Decembrists
Protector 1.7.0 x64 by Raimund Heid
Quazar 0.4 x64 by Dmitry Morozov
RobboLito 0.21Q x64 by Kranium
Samsung x64a by Felix Gulden
Saros eXp rev.6 x64 by Roberto Munter
Senpai 1.0 x64 by Fabien Letouzey
Shredder 12 x64 by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
Spark 1.0 x64 by AJ Siemelink
Strelka 6 by Jury Osipov
Sugar v4.2 x64 by Marco Zerbinati
Tactico Olmos x64 by ProLGO 2011LGO
Taipan 5 by Leonard Krylo
Tankist 3.1 by Alex Kutuzoff
Thinker 5.4D x64 by Lance Perkins
Toga II 280513 x64 by Jerry Donald, Thomas Gaksch and Fabien Letouzey
TwinFish 0.07 x64 by Alex Kutuzoff

More info coming soon and good luck to all participants)


Have Fun,
Sedat