This is the first preliminary list of participants http://www.chessdom.com/tcec-season-8-i ... pants-list The final two spots will be decided by the users: leave your message below about the engine that you want to see in this edition of the season and why.
Arasan Cheng Chiron Crafty Fire Fruit Reloaded Gaviota Ginkgo Gull Hannibal Houdini Jonny Komodo Nightmare Nirvana Pedone Protector Raptor Scorpio Stockfish Texel The Baron
The TCEC Season 8 will start on a 20 core Xeon server with 128 GB of RAM. The final stages will be played on a 40 cores server. Exact specifications will be posted in a separate post soon on Chessdom.
TCEC Season 8 will one more time will be administered by Martin Thoresen. Graphics will be created by Santiago Mendez and openings will be mastered by Nelson Hernandez.
- - Junior (awaiting info from the author)
- Critter (awaiting info from the author)
- Bouquet (source close to Fire)
- Toga (similar to Fruit)
- RedQueen (some instability in previous seasons)
- Equinox (some instability in previous seasons)
- Delphi (rating)
- Rookie (new)
- Other (please specify why)
Note 2: Even if some of these engines is not selected this season, all these engines are rather certain for Season 9 if proper code is submitted by the engine creators.