TCEC Season 6

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TCEC Season 6, a private tournament directed and organized by Martin Thoresen and supported by the Chessdom Arena, started on February 07, 2014 with a newly designed web based GUI interfacing with pgn4web and cutechess-cli. SMP capable engines with a minimum of supporting 8 cores were choosen to participate. Openings are from recent human high rated tournaments with a length of 8 moves selected by Nelson Hernandez alias Cato the Younger. Time control is 120 minutes for the whole game plus 30 seconds increment per move. Stockfish 170514 won conveniently versus Komodo 7 with +13=45-6 and 35½-28½.

=Participants= =Stages=
 * CC Country Codes

Stage 1
< Prev Next > Season 6, Stage 1 consists of 3 groups of 12 engines (1a, 1b and 1c), where each group is a single round robin meaning that all the participants play each other once. 66 games will be played in total for each group (198 for all groups) where the top five from each group and the best 6th placed will qualify for Stage 2 (16 in total).

Stage 1c

 * SB: Sonneborn-Berger score

Stage 2
< Prev Next > Season 6, Stage 2
 * SB: Sonneborn-Berger score

Stage 3
< Prev Next > Season 6, Stage 3, April 10, 2014 - April 30, 2014. Quadruple round robin, 112 games, 28 each. Top 4 qualify for Stage 4. < Prev Next >


 * SB: Sonneborn-Berger score

Stage 4
< Prev Next > Season 6, Stage 4, May 01, 2014. Hexadeca round robin, 96 (16x6) games. Top 2 qualify for the Superfinal.

=Superfinal= < Prev Next > The Season 6 Superfinal between Stage 4 top two engines Stockfish and Komodo was played 24/7 from May 19 until May 30, 2014. Both engines were updated with improved versions, the upcoming Stockfish 5, officially Stockfish 170514, and Komodo 7x, just released at the start of the superfinal, and like Stockfish before, now supporting Syzygy Bases. After playing 64 games with 32 (+1?) 8-move openings played with reversed colors.
 * SB: Sonneborn-Berger score


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

=The TCEC Server=
 * CPUs: 2 x 8 core Intel Xeon E5-2689 @ 3300 MHz
 * RAM: 64 GB Kingston KVR16R11D4K4/32 Reg/ECC
 * SSDs: 2 x Samsung 840 Pro 128 GB @ Raid 0

=Forum Posts=
 * Dear all TCEC fans: New website up. Season 6 -> 7th of February by Martin Thoresen, CCC, February 05, 2014
 * Hiarcs withdraws from TCEC Season 6 by Martin Thoresen, CCC, February 06, 2014 » Hiarcs
 * Re: Hiarcs withdraws from TCEC by Harvey Williamson, Hiarcs Forum, February 06, 2014
 * TCEC Season 6 - Stage 1a now live by Martin Thoresen, CCC, February 07, 2014
 * TCEC via Chess PGN Master by Ted Summers, CCC, February 08, 2014
 * TCEC Season 6 - Stage 1b now live by Martin Thoresen, CCC, February 19, 2014
 * TCEC Season 6 - Stage 1c now live by Martin Thoresen, CCC, March 04, 2014
 * TCEC Season 6 - Stage 2 now live by Martin Thoresen, CCC, March 16, 2014
 * TCEC Season 6 - Stage 3 now live by Martin Thoresen, CCC, April 10, 2014
 * TCEC Season 6 - Stage 4 now live by Martin Thoresen, CCC, May 01, 2014
 * TCEC Season 6 - Superfinal now live by Martin Thoresen, CCC, May 19, 2014
 * The Superfinal by Lyudmil Tsvetkov, CCC, May 21, 2014

=External Links=

TCEC

 * TCEC - Live Computer Chess Broadcast
 * TCEC - Archive Mode


 * TCEC Season 6 from OpenChess Forum

Chessdom

 * TCEC new season starting! | Chessdom, February 6, 2014
 * TCEC Stage 1a starts with 3 shockers | Chessdom, February 8, 2014
 * Houdini and Critter in battle for 1st position a round before the end of TCEC Stage 1a | Chessdom, February 18, 2014
 * Naum wins TCEC Stage 1b with a drama | Chessdom, March 03, 2014
 * Interview with Enrique Sánchez Acosta, author of Alfil | Chessdom, March 05, 2014 » Enrique Sánchez Acosta, Alfil

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