TCEC Season 10

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TCEC Season 10, the Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) Season 10 started on October 14, 2017. It was a competition between 24 chess engines in Stage 1, playing a single round robin, timecontrol 60' + 10" - 8 will qualify for Stage 2. The Superfinal was won with 53-47 by Houdini 6.03 versus Komodo 1970.00

=Participants= =Stages=
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Stage 1
< Prev Next > Season 10, Stage 1, October 14, 2017 - November 06, 2017. The top 8 qualified for Stage 2.
 * SB - Sonneborn–Berger score

Stage 2
< Prev Next > Season 10, Stage 2, November 06 - 20, 2017. The top two, Houdini and Komodo will meet in the Superfinal. The only unbeaten engine, Stockfish narrowly missed the superfinal. =Superfinal= < Prev Next > The Season 10 Superfinal between Houdini 6.03 and Komodo 1970.00 was played from November 20 until December 08, 2017. 100 games with 50 different openings selected by Jeroen Noomen.
 * SB - Sonneborn–Berger score


 * Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO)
 * List of chess openings - Wikipedia

=Rapid= A rapid double round robin with all 24 participants was played from December 08 until December 25, 2017. Time control was 15' + 10". Stockfish 051117 won by a narrow margin of ½ point ahead of the unbeaten runner up Houdini 6.03. Komodo 1959.00 came in third.


 * SB - Sonneborn–Berger score

=Blitz= Season 10 was completed from December 25 until December 30, 2017 by a Blitz double round robin with 3' + 2", this time won by Komodo 1959.00 with Stockfish 051117 second and Houdini 6.03 third.
 * SB - Sonneborn–Berger score

=Publications=
 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2018). TCEC10: The 10th Top Chess Engine Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 40, No. 2

=Forum Posts=
 * TCEC Season 10 announced by Stefan Pohl, CCC, August 12, 2017
 * TCEC 10 by Ted Summers, CCC, October 14, 2017
 * TCEC oddity by Dann Corbit, CCC, November 07, 2017
 * Re: Andscacs - New version 0.921 with source by Jon Dart, CCC, November 09, 2017 » Andscacs
 * Opening selection for the TCEC 10 superfinal by Venator, Rybka Forum, November 18, 2017
 * Houdini with a six point lead near the halfway point of TCEC by Ted Summers, CCC, November 28, 2017
 * TCEC 10 superfinal opening PGN available by Jeroen Noomen, CCC, December 14, 2017
 * TCEC overview by Jouni Uski, CCC, December 31, 2017

=External Links=
 * Live Computer Chess Broadcast
 * TCEC Season 10 openings by Nelson Hernandez (alias Cato the Younger), YouTube Video


 * Fire – the chess engine releases a new version, Chessdom, October 02, 2017 » Fire, Norman Schmidt
 * 44 cores server to power TCEC Season 10, Chessdom, October 06, 2017
 * TCEC Season 10 starts this Saturday at 14:00 CEST, Chessdom, October 12, 2017
 * Stockfish & Komodo lead as TCEC Season 10 starts by Colin McGourty, Chess24.com, October 18, 2017
 * Announcing TCEC Season 10 rapid and blitz, Chessdom, November 05, 2017
 * Komodo wins TCEC S10 Stage 1, eight engines qualify, Chessdom, November 07, 2017
 * Houdini leads TCEC Season 10 (Stage 2)s, Chessdom, November 11, 2017
 * Komodo – Houdini stuns the pundits, Chessdom, November 13, 2017
 * Komodo – Houdini is the Superfinal of TCEC Season 10, Chessdom, November 20, 2017
 * Interview with Robert Houdart, Mark Lefler and GM Larry Kaufman by Nelson Hernandez, Chessdom, November 23, 2017, YouTube Video » Houdini, Komodo


 * TCEC: Superfinal Houdini vs Komodo by Stephan Oliver Platz, ChessBase News, November 23, 2017
 * Houdini with a six point lead near the halfway point of TCEC, Chessdom, November 28, 2017
 * Houdini is TCEC Season 10 champion!, Chessdom, December 07, 2017
 * Interview with Robert Houdart, author of the champion engine Houdini, Chessdom, December 08, 2017
 * Houdini wins TCEC Superfinal by Stephan Oliver Platz, ChessBase News, December 13, 2017 » Houdini

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