nTCEC Season 1 - Superfinal | Houdini vs Stockfish | 16CPU

[Martin Thoresen]

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nTCEC Season 1 – Superfinal starts Friday April 26th at 19:00 UTC+2.



The Superfinal is a 48 game match.
The engines will play both sides of the openings, which are proposed by the nTCEC community.

The winner will become the nTCEC Grand Champion!

The list of participants for the Superfinal:
Houdini
Stockfish

nTCEC is using 150m + 60s per move for the whole game, running on a dual Intel Xeon E5-2689 @ 3300 MHz.
16 cores will be used for each engine.

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 the Superfinal will be moved here:
http://www.tcec-chess.net/superfinal.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]

Now live!

[Martin Thoresen]

Standings after 8 of 48 games:

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N Engine           Pts    SB Houdini 3   Stockfish 2 

1 Houdini 3        4.5 15.75             + 1 = 7 - 0 
2 Stockfish 250413 3.5 15.75 + 0 = 7 - 1             

Finished games: http://www.tcec-chess.net/superfinal.php
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[Martin Thoresen]

Standings after 21 of 48 games:

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N Engine            Pts     SB Houdini 3    Stockfish 25 

1 Houdini 3        11.5 109.25              + 3 = 17 - 1 
2 Stockfish 250413  9.5 109.25 + 1 = 17 - 3              

Finished games: http://www.tcec-chess.net/superfinal.php
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[Martin Thoresen]

Standings after 28 of 48 games:

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N Engine            Pts     SB Houdini 3    Stockfish 25 

1 Houdini 3        14.0 196.00              + 4 = 20 - 4 
2 Stockfish 250413 14.0 196.00 + 4 = 20 - 4              

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

[Martin Thoresen]

Standings after 40 of 48 games:

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N Engine            Pts     SB Houdini 3    Stockfish 25 

1 Houdini 3        20.5 399.75              + 5 = 31 - 4 
2 Stockfish 250413 19.5 399.75 + 4 = 31 - 5              

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

[Martin Thoresen]

The 48th game starts now and with Stockfish at -1 it must win in order to force a set of 4 new games, if it fails then Houdini is the nTCEC Grand Champion!

[Martin Thoresen]

Houdini wins the Superfinal 25-23 and is therefore the nTCEC Grand Champion. Congratulations to Robert Houdart and thanks to everyone following nTCEC. Season 2 will begin in the autumn, about 4 months from now.