BEAU CHESS - the post-work workings-out of a chess amateur

I begin this blog after getting back into league chess following many years' absence due to work. My post-job status also means I am able to play more tournament chess. My new club in London is Battersea and my first game for them is on Thursday September 14, 2017. I start with a Fide rating of 1858, an ECF grade of 169 (=1968 elo) and an ICCF correspondence rating of 2267. My current Fide is 1911, my ECF is 1939 and my ICCF is 2369.

Saturday, 9 May 2026

Better Late Than Never

I DISCOVERED today, more than three months after the event, there is a new version of the free engine Stockfish.

The creators reckon Stockfish18 is 46 elo better than Stockfish17, although, as far as I can see, they do not claim how much stronger it is than the improved Stockfish17.1.

Nevertheless, it would be churlish to look this gift horse in the mouth, and it can be downloaded free here.

However, be warned, I found I could only get it to work in ChessBase by deleting all previous versions of Stockfish from my computer. Until I had done that, no versions of the engine would work!

Stockfish icon - designed by web developer Klein Maetschke

1 comment:

Joe Skielnik10 May 2026 at 08:58
This list puts Stockfish 18 at number 1 (elo 3651).
https://computerchess.org.uk/4040/rating_list_all.html
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