TCEC Season 19

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TCEC Season 19, the Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) Season 19 from August 06 until October 16, 2020. After 93 games the Superfinal was decided, when Stockfish aka Stockfish NNUE reached 50½ of 100 points of 50 game pairs to defend its TCEC title! In total Stockfish won 18 and lost 9 games, 8 game pairs with both White wins, 10 game pairs in favour to Stockfish - one game pair won by Leela. There was no win by Black. =Participants=
 * CC Country Codes

=Divisions=

Qualification
< Prev Next Q Next 4 > Qualification League, August 06 - August 12, 2020, timecontrol 30' + 5 ''.

League 3
< Prev Next > League 3, August 12 - August 16, 2020, timecontrol 30' + 5 ''.

League 2
< Prev Next > League 2, August 19 - August 23, 2020, timecontrol 30' + 5 ''.

League 1
< Prev Next > League 1, August 23 - August 28, 2020, timecontrol 45' + 5 ''.

Premier Division
< Prev Next > August 30 - September 26, 2020, timecontrol 90' + 10 '', quad double round robin, in total 224 games. =Superfinal= < Prev Next > September 30 - October 16, 2020, timecontrol 120'+10" Stockfish 202009282242_nn-baeb9ef2d183 - LCZero v0.26.3-rc1_T60.SV.JH.92-190 +18 =73 -9, 54½-45½


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

=Publications=
 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2020). The 19th Top Chess Engine Championship, TCEC19. ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, No. 4 » TCEC Season 19
 * Matthew Sadler (2020). The TCEC19 Computer Chess Superfinal: A perspective. ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, No. 4

=Forum Posts=
 * Re: Introducing Igel chess engine - Igel and NNUE by Volodymyr Shcherbyna, CCC, August 19, 2020 » Igel, NNUE
 * Night Nurse 0.2 by Dietrich Kappe, CCC, August 19, 2020 » A0lite, Igel
 * TCEC S19 by Warren D. Smith, FishCooking, September 03, 2020
 * 87% of the poll voted that SF will win Tcec Sufi 19 by Nay Lin Tun, CCC, October 04, 2020
 * Why does TCEC use unbalanced opening? by Marco Giorgio, CCC, October 14, 2020

=External Links=
 * TCEC - Live Mode
 * TCEC - Live Old Mode
 * TCEC Season 19 from Wikipedia
 * TCEC Web Gui Archive Season 19
 * TCEC Season 19 - TCEC wiki
 * TCEC Season 19 Engines - TCEC wiki
 * Opening selection TCEC 19 superfinal by Jeroen Noomen, September 19, 2020

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