lavren1974

That is what this is. White and Black get different back ranks. Every one of the 960 setups plays every other one, with both colors. So 921,600 games, and each single game is a double random position.

Classical is 562nd of 960 by score so far. The article did not make that clear, which is on me.

Author here. Yes, the article was written by an LLM. My English is not good enough for that text and I did not want to spend a week on it.

The reason is simple. I built this because I wanted the answer for myself. I still don't know if it is useful to anyone else. So I put my effort into running the tournament and almost none into writing about it. Clearly that shows.

The tournament is real. Stockfish 15.1 with NNUE turned off, same time control and same hardware for every game. 460,800 games played, 921,600 total. No model touched the numbers.

Stockfish 15.1