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- - By Martin Thoresen Date 2011-05-16 13:54 Edited 2011-05-16 14:06
TCEC Stage 2a - Season 3

http://www.tcec-chess.org/stage_2a.php

STARTS WEDNESDAY MAY 18TH @ 19:00 CEST

Official discussion thread: http://www.tcec-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=126
NB: You need to be registered in order to participate or view the discussion on the official site.

For live chat please visit http://chessbomb.com/
NB: Don't pay too much attention to their built-in computer analysis since it's running multi pv which slows it down considerably.

Participants:
Rybka
Stockfish
Junior
Naum
Spark
Sjeng
Critter
Gull

NB: Engine updates are allowed only until the tournament starts,
and then the engine version numbers will be added.

Info:
CPU: Intel Core i7 980x @ 4198 MHz
MB: Asus Rampage III Gene
RAM: 12 GB Corsair
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Threads: Up to 6 per engine.
Tournament length: 56 games.
Tournament type: Double round robin.
Openings: Randomly selected from the new TCEC main opening book.
All openings are fixed to 10 moves and analyzed by Rybka & Houdini on the TCEC computer for 4 minutes per opening.

Time Control:
150 minutes + 30 seconds added per move for the whole game.

Graphical User Interface:
Type: ChessGUI
Resign: +/- 7.50 eval for 5 moves in a row (both engines)
Draw: An eval of +0.05/-0.05 for 5 moves in a row (both engines - only possible at move 30 or later)
If there is a pawn advance, or a capture by any kind, this draw counter will reset
Ponder: Off
Hash: Max 4096 MB per engine
Endgame tablebases: For any engine using these, all 3-4-5 men are available (Nalimov, Gaviota etc.)
Endgame cache: Up to 256 MB

For complete information on the rules and hardware, see the Information page.

Misc:
Stage 2a is half of the qualifiers from stage 1. The top 4 finishers will
move on to stage 3 while the bottom 4 are out of TCEC for this season.

Complete season 1 archive: http://www.tcec-chess.org/archive_s1.php
Complete season 2 archive: http://www.tcec-chess.org/archive_s2.php

For news and updates check the News Forum regularly.
Parent - By Michael Scheidl Date 2011-05-16 20:26
[quote="Martin Thoresen"]Participants:
Rybka
Stockfish
Junior
Naum
Spark
Sjeng
Critter
Gull[/quote]
Demzufolge werden folgende Engines das Turnier 2b bestreiten:

Shredder
Houdini
Spike
Zappa
Ivanhoe
Hiarcs
Hannibal
Komodo

Die jeweiligen Top-4 steigen nach Stage 3 auf, wo dann ein einziges doppelrundiges Turnier gespielt werden wird. Stage 4 (4 Engines je 8x gegeinander) und das Elitematch folgen. Ein sehr gründliches Auswahlverfahren mit (sehr) vielen Zwischenstufen. Im gerade beendeten 7 Runden-Swiss haben sich insgesamt fast alle "nach Papierform" qualifiziert, abgesehen von der genauen Rangfolge, nur an Stelle von Hannibal hätte man eher Protector in den Top-16 erwartet. Es hat aber nicht viel gefehlt daß Critter oder Komodo knapp gescheitert wären, was auch für "sportliche" Spannung im Turnier sorgte.

Fritz fehlt leider mangels einer UCI-Version, und Thinker vermutlich wegen des bekannten mangelhaften Outputs. Ansonsten sieht man dort die Besten der Besten.

Ähnlich wie in Thüringen performte übrigens Junior in Stage 1 sehr gut, trotz eher zufälliger Eröffnungsvorgaben (10 Züge) auf PGN-Basis. Keine Niederlage, und mehrere Remis gegen hochkarätige Gegner. In der letzten Runde konnte Junior trotz ungünstiger Eröffnung mit Schwarz gegen Houdini remisieren.
Parent - - By Martin Thoresen Date 2011-05-18 18:58 Edited 2011-05-18 22:50
Now live!

http://www.tcec-chess.org/stage_2a.php
Parent - - By Clemens Keck Date 2011-05-18 19:57
Hello Martin

what a SUPERB kind of presentation! WOW. This is awesome.
Congratulations

kind regrads, Clemens Keck
Parent - By Martin Thoresen Date 2011-05-19 14:22
Thank you Clemens!

Unfortunately there was a hardware problem making Naum - Spark stop
so I have decided to manually adjudicate that game as a draw.

Also, this problem might be the cause of the SF crash yesterday, so
I have resumed SF - Critter from the last position. The game just
ended in a draw by 3-fold rep.

The hardware issues should be resolved now, hopefully there won't be
any more trouble.

Best,
Martin
Parent - - By Martin Thoresen Date 2011-05-20 15:43
Standings after 2 of 14 rounds:

Code:
N Engine         Pts   SB   J N S S S R C G

1 Junior 12.5    1.5  1.50        =   1    
2 Naum 4.2       1.5  1.00          =   1  
3 Stockfish 2.11 1.5  0.25              = 1
4 Sjeng c't 2010 1.0  1.25  =       =      
5 Spark 1.0      1.0  1.25    =   =        
6 Rybka 4.1      1.0  0.00  0             1
7 Critter 1.01   0.5  0.75    0 =          
8 Gull 3683      0.0  0.00      0     0    
Parent - - By Joe Nettelbeck Date 2011-05-20 22:42
Woher hast du eigentlich die netten Engine-Marken-Bildchen?
Parent - By Martin Thoresen Date 2011-05-20 23:43
Q:
German to English translation
Where did you get the really nice engine-brand little picture?

A:
I found most of them on the net, some of them I have made myself.
Ich fand die meisten von ihnen im Netz, einige von ihnen habe ich mir selbst gemacht.

Best,
Martin
Parent - - By Martin Thoresen Date 2011-05-21 17:01
A minor update to the TCEC site has been made.

1: One separate live page with only the current live game (the LIVE link in the menu).
2: The other stage pages will contain all finished games, and they will be linked in color to the LIVE link.
3: A small timer has been added since the last move was made.
4: The crosstable will now update automatically, you can also click "Update" to force it to update.

This should make it easier for people with a low-bandwidth internet connection to follow the live games.
Parent - By Martin Thoresen Date 2011-05-23 20:33
An eval graph has now also been added to the live page. You can hide it if you feel like it.
I will update the other pages with the same graph later today.
Parent - - By Martin Thoresen Date 2011-05-26 19:01
Standings after 9 of 14 rounds:

Code:
N Engine          Pts   SB    St Ry Ju Cr Sp Sj Na Gu

1 Stockfish 2.11  7.0  26.00     =  1  == 1  1  =  11
2 Rybka 4.1       6.5  25.00  =     01 =  1  1  1  1=
3 Junior 12.5     5.0  20.25  0  10    1  0  =1 =  1 
4 Critter 1.01    4.0  18.75  == =  0     =  =  01 = 
5 Spark 1.0       4.0  14.50  0  0  1  =     =0 == 1 
6 Sjeng c't 2010  4.0  14.25  0  0  =0 =  =1    =  1 
7 Naum 4.2        3.5  16.00  =  0  =  10 == =     0 
8 Gull 3683       2.0   8.75  00 0= 0  =  0  0  1    
Parent - By Bernhard Meister Date 2011-05-26 23:54
Hi Martin,

could you please rename the Stockfish engine?

It's not version 2.11, version 2.1.1 has been released.
http://www.stockfishchess.com/

Thanks
Bernhard
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