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'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[Tournaments and Matches]] * [[TCEC]] * Season 9'''<br/>
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'''TCEC Season 9''',<br/>
the Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) Season 9 ran from May 1st to December 1st [[Timeline#2016|2016]] as a competition between 32 chess engines, divided into three stages and a Superfinal. '''Stage 1''', a single-round robin consisting of two seeded sub-divisions (a) and (b) of 16 engines each, is played with a two move [[Opening Book|opening book]]. '''Stage 2''', a double round robin, and '''Stage 3''', an octo round robin, is played with an eight move book. First time, a '''TCEC Rapid''' is scheduled after Stage 3 of the Top Chess Engine Championship. All 32 engines play double round robin with a total of 992 games <ref>[http://www.chessdom.com/tcec-rapid-starting-soon-with-32-engines/ TCEC rapid starting soon with 32 engines], [[Chessdom]], August 30, 2016</ref> with time control of 25 min + 10 sec <ref>[http://www.chessdom.com/tcec-rapid-important-information-update/ TCEC rapid – important information update | Chessdom], September 01, 2016</ref> .
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: auto;"! [[#Superfinal|Superfinal]] :| [[Stockfish|Stockfish 8]] | - | [[Houdini|Houdini 5]]! 54½-45½ |}
=Participants=
latest confirmed list as of April 24, 2016 <ref>[http://www.chessdom.com/tcec-season-9-officially-announced/ TCEC Season 9 officially announced (Updated)], [[Chessdom]], April 24, 2016</ref>
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! 32
| [[FireflyFireFly]]
! GB
| [[Andrew Fan]]
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! 16
| style="text-align:left;" | [[FireflyFireFly|Firefly 2.7.0]]
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| style="text-align:center;" | 0
[[Category:Keith Jarrett]]
[[Category:Jon Christensen]]
[[Category:2016]]
