TCEC Season 5

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TCEC Season 5, a private tournament directed and organized by Martin Thoresen. Finished on December 01, 2013, Komodo won the nTCEC Season 2 Superfinal with a margin of 25-23 versus Stockfish. =Stage 1= The Stage 1 qualifier from August 26 to September 17 was a seven round Swiss system tournament with 126 games played. 19 programs managed the promotion to Stage 2. SOS: Sum of Opponent Scores =Stage 2= Stage 2, from September 17 to October 18, was a single round robin tournament with 171 games played. 10 engines managed the promotion to Stage 3. =Stage 3= Stage 3, from October 18 to November 05, was a double round robin tournament with 90 games played and six programs to promote. =Stage 4= Stage 4, from November 05 to 21, was a sixfold round robin tournament with 90 games played to determine the two finalists. =Superfinal= < Prev Next >
 * SB: Sonneborn-Berger score
 * SB: Sonneborn-Berger score
 * SB: Sonneborn-Berger score

The superfinal between Stage 4 top two engines Komodo and Stockfish started at November 22, 2013, the day Komodo co-author Don Dailey died, and Magnus Carlsen won the World Chess Championship. 48 games with 24 six move opening lines as proposed by Nelson Hernandez alias Cato the Younger, each opening played two times with reverse colors. Finished at December 01, 2013, Komodo won TCEC Season 5 with 25-23.

Stockfish 191113 vs Komodo 1142 23-25
 * Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO)
 * List of chess openings - Wikipedia

=Forum Posts=
 * nTCEC Season 2 information + changes by Martin Thoresen, CCC, August 19, 2013
 * Lineup for nTCEC Season 2 by Martin Thoresen, CCC, August 24, 2013
 * nTCEC simulation by Don Dailey, CCC, October 28, 2013
 * komodo wins stage 3 by Don Dailey, CCC, November 04, 2013
 * TCEC - Thanks Martin and congrats to the winner Komodo by Gordon Robertson, CCC, December 05, 2013

=External Links=
 * Thoresen Chess Engines Competition - Wikipedia
 * nTCEC - Live Computer Chess Broadcast
 * TCEC - Archive Mode
 * Roanoke Programmer Dies Days Before Efforts Win World Chess Championship, The RoanokeStar.com, December 06, 2013
 * One chess champion per laptop by Roberto Perez-Franco, MIT's The Tech, January 15, 2014

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