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when [[Chessdom]] by [[Anton Mihailov]] took over the organization, renamed as '''Top Chess Engines Competition'''.
He got interested in computer chess in 2006 after watching [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Carlsen Magnus Carlsen] at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_World_Cup_2005 Chess World Cup] in late 2005,
and spent some time as part of the [[CCRL]] testing group, but thought it would be more interesting to actually watch the games, using long time control - and preferably live - so the idea of TCEC was born, [[TCEC Season 1|first season]] launched in 2010 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoresen_Chess_Engines_Competition Thoresen Top_Chess_Engine_Championshipn Top Chess Engines Competition - Wikipedia]</ref>.
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