TCEC Tournament 5 - Long TC live relay! Rybka 4 Exp-61 ++

[Martin Thoresen]

TCEC TOURNAMENT 5

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

STARTS SUNDAY NOVEMBER 21st

For 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.


Participants:
Junior 12 64-bit 6CPU
Rybka 4 Exp-61 64-bit 6CPU
Ivanhoe B50tA 64-bit 6CPU
Arasan 12.2 64-bit 6CPU
Stockfish 1.9.1 64-bit 6CPU
Houdini 1.03a 64-bit 6CPU

Misc:
CPU: Intel Core i7 980x @ 4303 MHz
MB: Asus Rampage III Gene
RAM: 12 GB Corsair
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

Tournament length: 30 games (double round robin)
Openings: Randomly selected - each engine pair will play both black & white of the same opening


Time Control:
120 Minutes for the first 40 moves - 60 minutes for the next 20 moves then
15 minutes for the rest + 30 seconds added per move from move 61


Graphical User Interface:
Type: ChessGUI
Resign: +/- 5.50 eval for 3 moves in a row (both engines)
Draw: An eval of +0.05/-0.05 for 4 moves in a row (both engines - only possible after passing move 40)
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
Nalimov tablebases: 3-4-5 men (Rybka, Junior, Arasan)
Nalimov cache: 256 MB
Robbo Totalbases: 3-4-5-Z men (Ivanhoe)
Robbo Triplebases: 2-3-4-5-Z men (Ivanhoe)

For a more detailed info on the rules and hardware, see the Info page


Info:
The new Junior 12 makes its TCEC debute together with Jon Dart's
program Arasan. The latter might have a hard time against the big boys,
but so will probably Junior. At any rate, it should be very interesting!

Also for the first time in TCEC history, an engine is participating with
non-default settings, namely Rybka 4 which is using the Exp-61 settings
taken from the Rybka forum - details here.

For news and updates check the News page regularly.

[John Doe]

Arasan 12.2 64-bit 6CPU

[Martin Thoresen]

The event has started!

[Martin Thoresen]

The tournament is finished, here are the final standings:

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   Nr Engine                              Pts      SB      Ry Ho St Iv Ju Ar
   1 Rybka 4 Exp-61 64-bit 6CPU           7.5     28.5000  -- =0 == 11 11 11
   2 Houdini 1.03a 64-bit 6CPU            7.0     27.2500  =1 -- 0= == 11 11
   3 Stockfish 1.9.1 64-bit 6CPU          6.0     23.2500  == 1= -- 00 1= 11
   4 Ivanhoe B50tA 64-bit 6CPU            6.0     22.5000  00 == 11 -- == 11
   5 Junior 12 64-bit 6CPU                3.5      9.0000  00 00 0= == -- 11
   6 Arasan 12.2 64-bit 6CPU              0.0      0.0000  00 00 00 00 00 --

The next event will be announced during the coming week, so stay tuned!

[Robert Houdart]

Martin, it was a very interesting tournament.
Relatively few draws, and a number of very impressive games including the two wins of Rybka over Ivanhoe and the win of Houdini over Rybka.
Arasan certainly deserved better than 0 points, but the competition at this level is fierce.
Looking forward to the next event!

Robert