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.

=Participants=
 * CC Country Codes

=Stage 1= October 14, 2017 - November 06, 2017. The top 8 qualified for Stage 2.
 * SB - Sonneborn–Berger score

=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.
 * SB - Sonneborn–Berger score

=Superfinal= < Prev Next >

The 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. Houdini 6.03 won with 53 - 47 (+15=76-9).
 * 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 » 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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