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where is tcec 8 forum?

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

TCEC Season 8 software

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: Hiarcs and Shredder will participate with brand new versions in Season 9, that starts right after Season 8. Other two engines, that we will keep secret for now, will also submit code that they expect to be "revolutionary"

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.