Have you tried Stockfish 1.4? It's a derivative of Glaurung and is very, very strong. (It always plays interesting, aggressive chess)
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No, I haven't, but added it to the tournament. Thanks for the tip.
It'll take about two weeks to play all the games.
Just realized that I've forgot to post the result of the "extended" tournament. Stockfish turned out to be a Toga/Fruit killer.
Engine Score Ry To Gl St Sp Fr Na St S-B
1: Rybka 2.2 28.0/42 ······ ===001 01==== 111=00 ===1=1 =11=== 111=1= 111111 518.25
2: Toga II 1.4-5c 27.0/42 ===110 ······ 1010=1 0==0== 11=11= ==111= =11==1 1====1 519.00
3: Glaurung 2.2 26.5/42 10==== 0101=0 ······ 1010== ==1111 ==111= 1=1=== 11=011 505.00
4: Stockfish 1.4 25.5/42 000=11 1==1== 0101== ······ 1=100= 11111= 0==111 1=1100 503.50
5: Spike 1.2 18.0/42 ===0=0 00=00= ==0000 0=011= ······ 101111 =1=001 ==10== 350.00
6: Fruit 2.3.1 17.5/42 =00=== ==000= ==000= 00000= 010000 ······ 1=1111 111=11 307.25
7: Naum 2.0 13.0/42 000=0= =00==0 0=0=== 1==000 =0=110 0=0000 ······ =0=011 272.75
8: Strelka 2.0 12.5/42 000000 0====0 00=100 0=0011 ==01== 000=00 =1=100 ······ 259.25
Run a tournament for some of the free engines I have with their default settings (hash table size was set to 512MB). They had 2 hrs for the first 40 moves and then 1 hr for the rest of the game (~6 hrs/game). The tournament had 6 rounds (126 games).
Here are the results:
Rank Engine Score To Ry Gl Fr Sp Na St S-B
1 TogaII 1.4-5c 25.0/36 ...... ===110 1010=1 ==111= 11=11= =11==1 1====1 409.00
2 Rybka 2.2 24.5/36 ===001 ...... 01==== =11=== ===1=1 111=1= 111111 376.00
3 Glaurung 2.2 23.5/36 0101=0 10==== ...... ==111= ==1111 1=1=== 11=011 376.50
4 Fruit 2.3.1 17.0/36 ==000= =00=== ==000= ...... 010000 1=1111 111=11 252.25
5 Spike 1.2 15.0/36 00=00= ===0=0 ==0000 101111 ...... =1=001 ==10== 245.50
6 Naum 2.0 11.0/36 =00==0 000=0= 0=0=== 0=0000 =0=110 ...... =0=011 192.50
7 Strelka 2.0 10.0/36 0====0 000000 00=100 000=00 ==01== =1=100 ...... 171.75
Toga, Rybka and Glaurung got about the same number of points and were significantly better than the others.
(Hardware: 2.5GHz quad core Intel Xeon)