TCEC LIVE - Division I, Season 1 - All the top engines!

[Martin Thoresen]

TCEC - DIVISION I - SEASON 1

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

STARTS FRIDAY JANUARY 7TH @ 18:00 UTC

Official discussion thread: http://www.tcec-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6 NB: You need to be registered in order to participate or view the discussion.

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.


Participants:

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   #   Engine            Pts      SB    Hi Ho Sh Cr St Iv Ry Na
   1 Hiarcs 13.2         0.0     00.00  -- XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
   2 Houdini 1.5         0.0     00.00  XX -- XX XX XX XX XX XX
   3 Shredder 12.0       0.0     00.00  XX XX -- XX XX XX XX XX
   4 Critter 0.9         0.0     00.00  XX XX XX -- XX XX XX XX
   5 Stockfish 1.9.1     0.0     00.00  XX XX XX XX -- XX XX XX
   6 Ivanhoe B47cA       0.0     00.00  XX XX XX XX XX -- XX XX
   7 Rybka 4.0           0.0     00.00  XX XX XX XX XX XX -- XX
   8 Naum 4.2            0.0     00.00  XX XX XX XX XX XX XX --

Note: Engine updates are allowed only until the tournament starts.


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

Tournament length: 56 games (double round robin).
Openings: Randomly selected - each engine pair will play both black & white of the same opening, meaning rounds 8-14 is the reverse of rounds 1-7.
Threads: Up to 6 per engine.

Note: The "new" 3-1-0 scoring system is used, meaning 3 points for a victory, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a loss.
The top 2 finishers will play the TCEC Elite Match, consisting of 40 games.
The bottom 2 finishers are demoted to Division II for the next Season.


Time Control:
40 moves in 100 minutes, the next 20 moves in 50 minutes, then finally
20 minutes for the rest plus 10 seconds added per move at this last time
control.


Graphical User Interface:
Type: ChessGUI
Resign: +/- 5.25 eval for 3 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
Nalimov tablebases: 3-4-5 men
Robbobases: 3-4-5-Z men
Gaviota tablebases: 3-4-5 men
Shredderbases: 3-4-5 men
Cache: 256 MB

For complete information on the rules and hardware, see the Information page.


Misc:
As Division II is getting close to the finish line, we can look forward to Division I which will start some 4-5 days after. It will be followed by the Elite Match before preparing for the next Season.
For news and updates check the News Forum regularly.

[noctiferus]

First of all, thanks for your tournaments: great idea, and very interesting results.
Second, I appreciate your optimism in defining Rybka 4 as Rybka 4.0. I really hope you are right in expecting a bugfix, but...

[Martin Thoresen]

First of all, thanks for your tournaments: great idea, and very interesting results.
Second, I appreciate your optimism in defining Rybka 4 as Rybka 4.0. I really hope you are right in expecting a bugfix, but...

Thanks for your support!

To be honest, the only reason I call Rybka 4 for "4.0" is that I want coherent names in TCEC.
For example, Critter 0.90 is "0.9" etc.

If we'll ever see a Rybka 4.1? Well, I don't know. I doubt it.

Best Regards,
Martin

[Martin Thoresen]

Stockfish 2.0 has replaced the 1.9.1 version.

[noctiferus]

I got a few results from blitz(zz!)games between Deep Saros and other top engines ( 2m+3 sec in my ancient Pentium M). The feeling that I got is that he is quite strong, at least in very short times...
I would plan to test him now on my i7. Did anybody else find that he is worth of a try?
Txs
Enrico

[CarstenL]

Hi Martin,

With Firefox 3.6.13 no board pieces will apperars .

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If you have problems viewing the board pieces you will need to select either Large or Small from the logo menu.
This only have to be done once, after that the board pieces will always be visible.

Thanks to Miguel Ballicora of Gaviota engine for making me aware of this.

Use the Large or Small button doesn't help. Clear Cache, nothing appears.

With IE seems all ok.

[Martin Thoresen]

I actually managed to post the Division II tables in the wrong thread.

CarstenL,

I am sorry to hear that, there should be no problems now by following the explanation you quoted.
I have tested with Chrome, Opera, Firefox and IE 8.

Can you right-click the red X or blank image where the board pieces are supposed to be displayed and paste the URL (link) to the image here when you click properties?
This must be a cache issue as all other users have gotten the board pieces to show after doing a refresh and/or by clicking the Small or Large button.

Best Regards,
Martin

[CarstenL]

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the red x first appears, then disappears.

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and paste the URL (link) to the image here when you click properties?

i don't see properties when i right click the image.

[Martin Thoresen]

CarstenL,

If you click "Link senden", then you should get a URL of some sort yes? I am sorry, German is not my primary language.

[CarstenL]

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English is not my first language too

I don't understand this:

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and paste the URL (link) to the image here when you click properties?

i get this link when i right click where the pieces should be displayed:
http://www.tcec-chess.org/div_ii.php

To what image should i paste it?
and where do I find properties after what click

sorry for my wild english