nTCEC - Season 1 - Stage 4 | Komodo MP - TBA

[Martin Thoresen]

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nTCEC Season 1 – Stage 4 starts Saturday April 13th at 17:00 UTC+2.



Stage 4 is a hexa Round Robin consisting of 4 chess engines, with a total of 36 games.
Each engine pair will play both sides of the openings, that are chosen by the nTCEC community.

The top 2 will move on to the Superfinal, while those finishing 3-4 are out of nTCEC for the current Season.
The Superfinal will start 3-4 days after Stage 4 is finished.

The list of participants for Stage 4, in seed order:
Houdini, Stockfish, Rybka and Komodo.

nTCEC is using 150m + 60s per move for the whole game, running on a dual Intel Xeon E5-2689 @ 3300 MHz.
Up to 16 cores can be used for engines capable of MP.

Read the full nTCEC rules here:
http://www.tcec-chess.net/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=20

The broadcast will be running 24/7 with 1 game at a time, and can be watched here, also with chat:
http://www.tcec-chess.net/live.php (Widescreen can be selected in the top right corner)

Finished games from Stage 4 will be moved here:
http://www.tcec-chess.net/stage_4.php

Read the latest nTCEC news here:
http://www.tcec-chess.net/viewforum.php?f=2

Hope to see everyone there!

Best Regards,
Martin Thoresen

[Martin Thoresen]

Don has a problem with the cross platform code so Komodo MP use 1 full core in Windows even when the opponent is thinking. I have tested this myself and we are both sorry that Komodo MP won't show up in this Stage either.

[Martin Thoresen]

Standings after 4 of 18 rounds:

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N Engine           Pts   SB Ho Ry Ko St 

1 Houdini 3        3.0 4.75    =  =1 1  
2 Rybka 4.1        2.0 3.75 =     =  == 
3 Komodo 4534      1.5 3.25 =0 =     =  
4 Stockfish 120413 1.5 2.75 0  == =     

Finished games: http://www.tcec-chess.net/stage_4.php

[Martin Thoresen]

Standings after 9 of 18 rounds:

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N Engine           Pts    SB Sto Hou Ryb Kom 

1 Stockfish 120413 6.0 24.00     011 ==1 ==1 
2 Houdini 3        4.5 19.00 100     === =1= 
3 Rybka 4.1        4.0 18.00 ==0 ===     === 
4 Komodo 4534      3.5 16.50 ==0 =0= ===     

Finished games: http://www.tcec-chess.net/stage_4.php

In particular game 18 between Houdini and SF was a great game by SF.

[Martin Thoresen]

Standings after 14 of 18 rounds:

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N Engine           Pts    SB Stock Houdi Rybka Komod 

1 Stockfish 120413 8.5 54.75       011=  ==1== ==1== 
2 Houdini 3        7.5 48.25 100=        ===== =1==1 
3 Rybka 4.1        6.5 46.75 ==0== =====       ====  
4 Komodo 4534      5.5 41.25 ==0== =0==0 ====        

Finished games: http://www.tcec-chess.net/stage_4.php