OpenChess

TCEC Division A - Season 2

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

STARTS SATURDAY APRIL 2ND @ 14:00 GMT

Official discussion thread: http://www.tcec-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=81
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.
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: 30 games (15 openings + 15 reversed openings).
Openings: Randomly selected from the TCEC main opening book consisting of 9106 openings.
All openings are fixed to 10 moves and analyzed by a top engine for approximately 24 seconds.


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:
The two top finishers will play in the Elite Match immediately after this
tournament, while the engine finishing last will have to play TCEC B for
next season.

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

TCEC A now live!

Official relay:
http://www.tcec-chess.org/tcec_a.php

Chat:
http://www.chessbomb.com

A tough start for Critter & Shredder after 2 of 10 rounds:

Yes, gonna be hard for them, specialy for Shredder.

How come btw that the rating is 1 2 3 4 5 6, and not 1-4, 5-6, since 1-4 / 5-6 have same points, same SB ?

Odeus37 wrote:Yes, gonna be hard for them, specialy for Shredder.

How come btw that the rating is 1 2 3 4 5 6, and not 1-4, 5-6, since 1-4 / 5-6 have same points, same SB ?

That would be a question for the programmer of ChessGUI, Matthias Gemuh.
I simply don't think he has implemented that kind of "order sorting".

Best,
Martin

Standings after 4 of 10 rounds:

Maybe those slight changes in Critter 1.0 aren’t working very well.

BTW: Murphy’s Law got me, of course. The very first time I decided to watch one of these, I spent hours gazing at Ivanhoe vs. Houdini move 11. I kept thinking, "How do people watch these things, it’s like watching paint dry"!

At least Murphy was kind enough not to drop you straight into Shredder - Houdini. (A draw was "agreed" after 361 moves.)

UncombedCoconut wrote:At least Murphy was kind enough not to drop you straight into Shredder - Houdini. (A draw was "agreed" after 361 moves.)

Yes, it's the longest TCEC game by far, both in number of moves and amount of time used for one single game.

Best,
Martin

Yeah, I dropped into that game for awhile too.

Apparently there was a feed problem both at ChessBomb and the official site during the Ivanhoe vs. Houdini game. It appeared to be analyzing and I thought Ivanhoe was trying to get extremely deep on Houdini straight out the book!