Racing bar chart

[Ferdy]

I came across this beautiful visualizer trying to plot COVID-19 cases in the Philippines.

https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/2550086/

I thought this is also good to plot the rating of engines by year.

[Dann Corbit]

That's one race where you really don't want to be the winner.

[Ferdy]

That's one race where you really don't want to be the winner.

[maxdeg]

Also this posted by darkenergy at outskirts.altervista.org ..

[Ferdy]

Also this posted by darkenergy at outskirts.altervista.org ..

Right, it is nice to see like that especially with sound, would be good also if we can see some other engines. In Flourish it is called a racing line chart. AFAIK Flourish offers two racing charts, bar and line. It is free with limitation but should be enough in most cases.

I started looking at the CCRL games, for pgn files from year 2005. It is a bit of a challenge to generate rating year after year and pick up the best engine at that year and strip the version number.

Example to generate year 2005 rating list:
* Get the year 2005 games
* Generate year 2005 rating
* Pick the best version and save in 2005_best_rating list, without the engine version number

To generate year 2006 rating list:
* Combine the games of year 2005 and 2006
* Generate rating
* Pick the best version and save in 2006_best_rating list, without the engine version number

So after 2 years based from 2005_best_rating list and 2006_best_rating list, we may have,

Code: Select all

name,2005,2006, more years ...
Rybka,2744,2925, more rating ...
Shredder,2700,2755, more rating ...

and so on

To generate year 2007 rating list:
* Combine the games of year 2005, 2006, and 2007
* Generate rating
* Pick the best version and save in 2007_best_rating list, without the engine version number

and so on till 2019 or so

This can be done by month as well or perhaps every 6 months to have more games in rating generation.

csv file format can be exported to Flourish to get the racing chart. The year is in the column i.e 2005,2006,2007 ...

[Dann Corbit]

That new chart looked like racing tadpoles to me.

[Ferdy]

CCRL single core rating list racing bar chart, so far only from 2005 to 2009, only up to 100 engines are shown, will update it later. Ordo is used, Shredder 9 is the reference engine at 2700.

https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/2587849/

[Ferdy]

CCRL single core rating list racing bar chart, so far only from 2005 to 2009, only up to 100 engines are shown, will update it later. Ordo is used, Shredder 9 is the reference engine at 2700.

https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/2587849/

Added estimated title categories such as super gm, gm, etc based on rating. The year range is now from 2005-2013.
I now use bayeselo was ordo, as it takes too much time to process a rating list with so many games from 2005 to 2013.

[Dann Corbit]

Like a ride down memory lane!
I forgot the awesome strength of critter.
Shame on me

[Ovyron]

Yeah, due to its Session File that allowed it to backsolve scores of positions and use them by the search Critter remained an useful analysis engine for an incredible amount of time. Up to halfway 2017 (which may not sound as impressive 3 years later...)

Also, chess strength is exponential, but this 0-1000-2000-3000 graph is linear, so it doesn't make chess engine's justice.

At some point the distances between the best engine and second best was IMMENSE, but only a logarithmic scale could show that (the lower rated engines would look squeezed though starting from 1500 instead of 0 would help).