TCEC Season 17

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TCEC Season 17, the Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) Season 17 from January 02 until April 21, 2020. It was the first time, TCEC differentiated between a CPU League and a GPU League - the latter cancelled so far, since only two participants met the uniqueness criteria, to become default qualifiers for the Playoff for the Premier Division along with the four top engines of CPU League 1. The tournament hardware was enhanced for the CPU server with 4 x Intel Xeon 4xE5-4669v4 @ 2.8 GHz with 88 physical cores, and the GPU Server with 2x Intel Xeon E5-2630V4 @ 2.2 GHz and 4 x Nvidia RTX 2080 ti. Engines were running under Linux, either natively or as Windows engine under the compatibility layer Wine. 6-man Syzygy bases were cached in RAM. =Participants=
 * CC Country Codes

=Divisions=

Qualification
< Prev Next > CPU Qualification League, January 02 - January 12, 2020, timecontrol 30' + 5 ''.

Second Division
< Prev Next > CPU League 2, January 15 - January 25, 2020, timecontrol 30' + 5 ''. Two engines, Chess22k and Fritz crashed three times during testing for this division, resulting in Minic and PeSTO promoting.

First Division
< Prev Next > CPU League 1, January 31 - February 15, 2020, timecontrol 45' + 5 ''. Since Booot, Chiron, ChessBrainVB did not run under Wine, and Jonny had problems as well and was not updated in time, four more engines, rank 5 to 8 of League 2 promoted.

Playoff
Playoff for Premier Division, March 07 - March 12, 2020, timecontrol 60' + 5 '' The four top engines of CPU League 1 and the two default qualifiers of the GPU League, ScorpioNN and ChessFighter.

Premier Division
< Prev Next > March 18 - April 07, 2020, timecontrol 90' + 5 ''

=Superfinal= < Prev Next > April 08 - April 21, 2020, timecontrol 90' + 5 ''

LCZero v0.24-sv-t60-3010 - Stockfish 20200407DC  +17 =71 -12,  52½-47½


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

=Publications=
 * Guy Haworth, Nelson Hernandez (2020). The 17th Top Chess Engine Championship, TCEC17. ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, Nos. 2-3, pdf
 * Matthew Sadler (2020). The TCEC17 Computer Chess Superfinal: A perspective. ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, Nos. 2-3, pdf

=Postings=
 * TCEC S17 – detailed information, Chessdom, December 21, 2019
 * TCEC has new hardware! by Jouni, CCC, December 26, 2019
 * TCEC Season 17 – Premier Division is now live!, Chessdom, March 17, 2020
 * Opening selection TCEC 17 superfinal by Jeroen Noomen, March 27, 2020
 * tcec 17 superfinal by Warren D. Smith, LCZero Forum, April 08, 2020 » TCEC Season 17 Sufi
 * Win-Draw-Loss evaluation by crem, LCZero blog, April 20, 2020 » Pawn Advantage, Win Percentage, and Elo
 * TCEC S17 SUper FInal report by @glbchess64, LCZero blog, April 21, 2020

=External Links=
 * TCEC - Live Mode
 * TCEC Web Gui Archive Season 17
 * TCEC Season 17 - TCEC wiki
 * TCEC Season 17 Game coverage
 * TCEC Season 17 Further information
 * TCEC Season 17 from Wikipedia
 * My TCEC Experience by Assaf Wool

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