The Distributed Chess Project

Creating Chess-Playing Artificial Neural Networks with Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms

55 participants have returned at least one candidate neural network for this problem set. The results of the best ones are ranked according to test performance, corresponding training performance and contributed computing time in the following table. This problem set comes from a collection of more than 3000 endgame problems which can be found here.

Both the training and the test set consist of 200 problems each which I have randomly selected from the 3000+ problems. If one were to pick the solutions for those 400 problems randomly, one could expect a performance of 9.7% on average. Therefore, any significantly higher performance can be considered as a success.

Rank	User-ID	Best Performance on Test Set (%)	Corresponding Performance on Training Set (%)	Cumulated Computing Time (d:h:m:s)
1	richbcla	22.00	11.50	22:16:45:41
2	jes5199	21.50	17.00	10:10:16:42
3	slez	21.00	30.50	24:09:57:28
4	poetsw	21.00	10.50	3:04:17:59
5	ooi_thien_ern	21.00	10.00	13:21:09:13
6	jperkins	20.50	38.50	55:21:22:00
7	frederic.maillet	20.50	17.00	6:05:41:35
8	arno	20.50	13.50	6:13:42:11
9	jwa	20.50	11.00	13:03:17:50
10	john.obrien	20.00	32.00	7:16:06:51
11	idiott47	20.00	31.50	9:04:47:05
12	gargallo	20.00	25.50	44:15:46:36
13	lstep	20.00	24.00	3:07:47:54
14	ba100	20.00	21.00	9:07:28:42
15	esa.elovaara	20.00	14.50	22:08:58:44
16	vishvananda	20.00	14.00	1:19:44:41
17	peter.k.campbell	20.00	13.00	29:08:34:50
18	freemac_99	19.50	38.00	25:03:53:17
19	kurt	19.50	27.50	14:20:49:53
20	joachim	19.50	20.50	3:12:18:49
21	nicolas	19.50	18.00	5:19:49:00
22	midmalex	19.50	16.00	17:04:27:50
23	Nico.DeBecker	19.50	16.00	6:03:50:05
24	albert.babi	19.50	14.50	13:08:55:32
25	stuart	19.50	13.50	94:05:47:16
26	bulmash	19.00	35.00	5:11:05:33
27	benoit.cardinet	19.00	33.50	5:06:00:11
28	fthire	19.00	30.50	6:02:20:16
29	llclarisse	19.00	19.00	1:11:47:50
30	troy	19.00	14.50	13:10:32:13
31	garrodoran	19.00	14.00	4:15:22:45
32	pcaillou	19.00	13.00	2:14:28:16
33	kennynthebest	18.50	32.00	22:20:08:33
34	ish_alviso	18.50	28.50	4:07:13:50
35	seabook	18.50	18.00	11:04:01:21
36	michaud	18.50	16.50	4:06:57:46
37	5xd7g251lq2vs001	18.50	15.50	1:14:38:47
38	Theo_Is_Blue	18.00	37.50	6:02:11:07
39	jt1masters	18.00	17.50	2:14:33:17
40	wingy	18.00	14.50	4:02:30:38
41	cormiodo	18.00	13.50	0:22:34:43
42	jean_efpraxiadis	18.00	12.50	0:19:58:00
43	lgp	18.00	12.00	4:10:27:45
44	jerome	17.50	37.50	1:12:58:20
45	mutefly	17.50	29.50	6:14:50:11
46	ic	17.50	23.00	5:01:21:23
47	david7091	17.50	18.00	0:21:45:05
48	jstrassr	17.50	15.00	5:05:48:56
49	cozd	17.50	14.00	3:14:58:24
50	landispa99	17.50	12.50	3:12:21:15
51	emmanuel.gabbud	17.00	14.00	2:02:29:56
52	fessman	17.00	12.50	0:23:39:10
53	Tobias.Mueller	16.50	29.50	2:21:04:14
54	antoine	16.50	21.00	1:07:21:22
55	organizer	16.00	17.50	0:09:39:11