Chess, good and bad feelings

It is a nice feeling to see your little creature evolve, specially if it wins, but it is really difficult to tune these creatures, I mean, you modify a tiny part of the program and the results can be catastrophic an the worse thing is that you don't even notice it until the engine starts loosing miserably against other engines, then you have to rollback all changes and start measuring and per one again, slow and painfull...

In the last tournament (I don't play engines that I know they always win, what for?, they are design by clever people for many many years with a lot of chess knowledge and help from chess experts) ChessKISS was lucky enough to win all matches, but does that means that ChessKISS is better than other engines?, no!, that's why ELO exists, you have to play hundrens of games in order to balance your ELO.


Arena tournament

Rank	Engine	Author	Country	Rating	Score	%	Ch	Pu	Ts	Ms	Pi	Bi	S-B
1	ChessKISS	Abel Belzunces	Spain	2200	5.0/5	100.0	· ·· ··	1-0-0	1-0-0	1-0-0	1-0-0	1-0-0	10,00
2	Pulsar2009-9b	Mike Adams	USA	2200	4.0/5	80.0	0-1-0	· ·· ··	1-0-0	1-0-0	1-0-0	1-0-0	6,00
3	Tscp181	Tom Kerrigan	USA	2200	3.0/5	60.0	0-1-0	0-1-0	· ·· ··	1-0-0	1-0-0	1-0-0	3,00
4	Mscp	Marcel van Kervinck	Netherlands	2200	1.5/5	30.0	0-1-0	0-1-0	0-1-0	· ·· ··	1-0-0	0-0-1	1,25
5	Piranha	Martin Villwock	Germany	2200	1.0/5	20.0	0-1-0	0-1-0	0-1-0	0-1-0	· ·· ··	1-0-0	0,50
6	BigLion	Matthias Gemuh	Cameroon	2200	0.5/5	10.0	0-1-0	0-1-0	0-1-0	0-0-1	0-1-0	· ·· ··	0,75