TCEC Division A (150m + 30s) LIVE broacast! Starts 2/4

[Martin Thoresen]

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.

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N Engine      Pts  SB   Cr Ry Iv Ho Sh St 

1 Critter     0.0 0.00     -- -- -- -- -- 
1 Rybka       0.0 0.00  --    -- -- -- -- 
1 Ivanhoe     0.0 0.00  -- --    -- -- -- 
1 Houdini     0.0 0.00  -- -- --    -- -- 
1 Shredder    0.0 0.00  -- -- -- --    -- 
1 Stockfish   0.0 0.00  -- -- -- -- --    

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

[Martin Thoresen]

TCEC A now live!

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

Chat:
http://www.chessbomb.com

[Martin Thoresen]

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

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N Engine          Pts   SB   H R S I C S 

1 Houdini 1.5a    1.5  0.75    =     1   
2 Rybka 4.1       1.5  0.75  =         1 
3 Stockfish 2.01  1.5  0.75        = 1   
4 Ivanhoe B47cB   1.5  0.75      =     1 
5 Critter 1.01    0.0  0.00 0    0       
6 Shredder 12.0   0.0  0.00    0   0     

[Odeus37]

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 ?

[Martin Thoresen]

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

[Martin Thoresen]

Standings after 4 of 10 rounds:

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N Engine          Pts   SB   R I H S S C 

1 Rybka 4.1       3.0  4.00    = =   1 1 
2 Ivanhoe B47cB   2.5  5.00  =   = = 1   
3 Houdini 1.5a    2.5  4.50  = =   =   1 
4 Stockfish 2.01  2.5  3.50    = =   = 1 
5 Shredder 12.0   1.0  1.50  0 0   =   = 
6 Critter 1.01    0.5  0.50  0   0 0 =   

[MoldyJacket]

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"!

[UncombedCoconut]

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

[Martin Thoresen]

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

[MoldyJacket]

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!