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'''[[TCEC Season 7|< Prev]] [[TCEC Season 9|Next >]]'''
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'''TCEC Season 8''',<br/>
a private tournament directed and organized by [[Martin ThoresenAnton Mihailov]] and supported by the , CEO of [[Chessdom|Chessdom Arena]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=55915&hilit=Mihailov&start=17 Re: What Happened to TCEC Season 8? Where is Martin?] by [[Mark Lefler]], [[CCC]], April 08, 2015</ref>, started on August 21, [[Timeline#2015|2015]]. There are 3 Stages plus the Superfinal. '''Stage 1''', a single-round robin consisting of two seeded sub-divisions of 12 engines each, is played without [[Opening Book|book openings]]. In '''Stage 2''' the top six surviving engines from each of the two divisions in Stage 1 compete in double round-robin, using a two-move book designed by [[Adam Hair]] and checked by [[Nelson Hernandez]] (alias Cato the Younger) for statistical and evaluative play-balance. '''Stage 3''' and the '''Superfinal''' used an opening book of 8 moves. {| class="wikitable" style="margin: auto;"! [[#Superfinal|Superfinal]] :| [[Komodo|Komodo 9.3x]]| - | [[Stockfish|Stockfish 021115]]! 53½-46½ |}
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=Superfinal=
'''[[TCEC Season 7#Superfinal|< Prev]] [[TCEC Season 9#Superfinal|Next >]]'''<br/>
The Superfinal between [[Stockfish|Stockfish 021115]] and [[Komodo|Komodo 9.3x]] was played from November 06 until November 30, 2015 with 50 different 8 move openings selected by IM [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Kislik Erik Kislik], of which 33 are his own and the remaining 17 are made by [[Nelson Hernandez|Cato]]. Each engine played both the black and white side of the same position. '''Komodo''' dominated the match and secured the '''title''' five games before the end of the hundred games marathon <ref>[http://www.chessdom.com/komodo-is-triple-champion-wins-the-top-chess-engine-championship-2015/ Komodo is triple champion, wins the Top Chess Engine Championship 2015!], [[Chessdom]], November 29, 2015</ref> .
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=Forum Posts=
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=55915 What Happened to TCEC Season 8? Where is Martin?] by APassionForCriminalJustic, [[CCC]], April 06, 2015
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=55915&hilit=Mihailov&start=17 Re: What Happened to TCEC Season 8? Where is Martin?] by [[Mark Lefler]], [[CCC]], April 08, 2015
* [http://rybkaforum.net/cgi-bin/rybkaforum/topic_show.pl?tid=30450 TCEC Season 8] by [[Nelson Hernandez]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Rybka Forum]], August 06, 2015
* [http://www.open-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2864 TCEC SEASON 8] by terrapene, [[Computer Chess Forums|OpenChess Forum]], August 20, 2015
* [http://www.chessdom.com/tcec-season-8-complete-information/ TCEC Season 8 – complete information], [[Chessdom]], August 18, 2015
* [http://www.chessdom.com/press-release-regarding-the-stockfish-case-in-tcec-stage-3/ Press release regarding the Stockfish case in TCEC Stage 3], [[Chessdom]], October 11, 2015 <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=57899 Martin on the SF loss on time] by Rob Nicholas, [[CCC]], October 09, 2015</ref>
* [https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2015/11/27/thanks-for-additivity/ Thanks for Additivity] by [[Kenneth Wingate W. Regan|Ken Regan]], [https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/ Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP], November 27, 2015 <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58400 Is the current Komodo that close to perfection?] by Bajusz Tamás, [[CCC]], November 28, 2015</ref>
* [http://www.chessdom.com/komodo-is-triple-champion-wins-the-top-chess-engine-championship-2015/ Komodo is triple champion, wins the Top Chess Engine Championship 2015!], [[Chessdom]], November 29, 2015
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