TCEC Cup 13

Flowchart of fixed seedings for top 8 in the TCEC Cup Event

This page TCEC Cup 13 is used for engines registration, to see which engines and updates have been requested, announced and received.

Deadline for sending in 

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Official start is ...

• for authors see Engines_and_authors
• for rules see TCEC Cup rules

Explanation of typography

Explanation of special typography:

• bold engines are invited for this particular event and contact has been sought or established with, the author(s)
• struck through means declined or not participating
• bold italics means engine and/or update received.
• italics means engine same as last event.
• underlined means possible invite

Engines invited including update information

Preliminary invites all engines at least 7 points after 8 rounds of Swiss 6

1. Stockfish - preliminary invite confirmed
2. LCZero - update to LCZero 0.31-dag-5c1051f-BT4-6077500 submitted
3. Ethereal - same net, update per script
4. RubiChess - possible update incoming -> RubiChess 20240215 submitted
5. Altair - update expected
6. KomodoDragon - no update
7. Berserk - update to latest main branch incoming at deadline
8. Caissa - per script to version 1.17.4
9. Seer - no update this cup, swiss 6 version will play
10. Clover - update submitted per discord
11. DeepSjeng - Deep Sjeng 3.6a30 submitted again
12. Obsidian - update per script submitted
13. Ginkgo - new version Ginkgo 4.1 submitted
14. Uralochka - update to 3.41.dev2 submitted
15. Viridithas - update announced -> update ready and submitted per script
16. Minic - no update expected this event
17. Stoofvlees - Stoofvlees II b5 submitted again
18. akimbo - update per script submitted
19. rofChade - no new version atm
20. BlackMarlin - update per script announced
21. ScorpioNN - same version will play if qualifies
22. Willow - update ready to be done by script
23. Igel - no update this time but work is underway for next event possibly
24. Revenge - update to new development version submitted
25. Stormphrax - update per script announced
26. Texel - next update submitted, the one after already cooking and almost ready
27. Weiss - no update expected
28. Booot - NO REPLY
29. Marvin - update submitted, another one ready in case of qualification
30. Mr_Bob
31. Velvet - as its promotion was unexpected it never got a special invite, still, update is coming today -> Velvet v7.0.0 received
32. Stash
33. Counter
34. Cheng - update to Cheng 4.46 if qualifies
35. Expositor
36. Winter - update to v3.01 if qualifies
37. Avalanche - minor fixes as update if qualifies
38. Arasan - preliminary invite confirmed - update per script
39. 4ku - preliminary invite confirmed no update if qualifies
40. Equisetum - preliminary invite confirmed, probably not yet an update if qualifies -> version cupS26 submitted
41. Tucano - preliminary invite confirmed, probably not yet an update if qualifies, but after cup there should be one

Definitive standings and invites after completed Swiss 6 and final update versions

See archive for final standings

1. LCZero - LCZero 0.31-dag-a487796-BT3-2860000 -> 0.31-dag-5c1051f-BT4-6077500
2. Stockfish - Stockfish dev-20240114-b5e8169a -> dev-20240217-fc41f64d
3. KomodoDragon - no update
4. RubiChess - RubiChess 20240112 -> 20240215
5. Ethereal - Ethereal 14.28 -> 14.31
6. Berserk - Berserk 20240114_tcec-swiss6 -> 20240220
7. Seer - no update
8. Obsidian - Obsidian dev-9.35 -> dev-10.28
9. Igel - no update
10. DeepSjeng - no update
11. Uralochka - Uralochka 3.41.dev1-avx512 -> 3.41.dev2-avx512
12. ScorpioNN - no update
13. Stoofvlees - no update
14. Weiss - no update
15. Caissa - Caissa 1.16.2 -> 1.17.5
16. Clover - Clover 6.1.6 -> 6.1.15
17. Viridithas - Viridithas 12.0.0-dev3 -> 12.0.0-dev4
18. rofChade - no update
19. Arasan - Arasan 24.1_3dc7872 -> 096645a
20. Minic - no update
21. Willow - Willow 3.1_dev -> 4.0
22. Booot - Booot 7.2 -> 7.3
23. Equisetum - Equisetum s_4.1.1_NN_variegatum_d -> s_4.1.8.NN_variegatum.f
24. Stormphrax - Stormphrax 4.0.8-tcec_8c37ad4 -> 4.0.13_8b5dc66
25. Velvet - Velvet 6.0.0 -> v7.0.0
26. Revenge - Revenge 20231112 -> 20240213
27. akimbo - akimbo 0.8.0 -> 0.8.0-82509bd6
28. Marvin - Marvin 6.3.0-4 -> 6.3.0-5
29. Altair - Altair 6.1.3 -> 7.0.0
30. Ginkgo - Ginkgo 4.0 -> 4.1
31. Tucano - no update
32. Texel - Texel 1.11 -> 1.12a2

Engines not updated

1. KomodoDragon
2. Seer
3. Igel
4. DeepSjeng
5. ScorpioNN
6. Stoofvlees
7. Weiss
8. rofChade
9. Minic
10. Tucano

Engines that did not reply

All replied and are in contact.

Seedings

See automatic radomizing done.

FIXED SEEDINGS:
1. Stockfish
2. LCZero
3. KomodoDragon
4. RubiChess
5. Ethereal
6. Berserk
7. Seer
8. Obsidian
TO BE RANDOMIZED SEEDINGS:
9. Igel -> r05
10.DeepSjeng -> r23
11.Uralochka -> r10
12.ScorpioNN -> r04
13.Stoofvlees -> r16
14.Weiss -> r03
15.Caissa -> r22
16.Clover -> r21
17.Viridithas -> r20
18.rofChade -> r07
19.Arasan -> r11
20.Minic -> r17
21.Willow -> r24
22.Booot -> r09
23.Equisetum -> r14
24.Stormphrax -> r02
25.Velvet -> r15
26.Revenge -> r06
27.akimbo -> r01
28.Marvin -> r12
29.Altair -> r18
30.Ginkgo -> r19
31.Tucano -> r13
32.Texel -> r08

Cup 13 pairings and bracket

Flowchart of seeded engines in the TCEC Cup 13

Trivia

Bugs and Problems

1. Viridithas time loss Testing Game 21. Fixed
2. Clover time loss. R32 Viridithas - Clover Game 20

Polls

1. Who do you want to win Cup 13?(Closed)
2. Which will make upsets in Cup 13? (Lower Elo and winning a match)(Closed)
3. Who will win the Cup Final? (Closed)

Cupsets

1. R32 Stormphrax - Weiss 3.5-2.5 (Elo diff: 3)
2. R32 Altair - Minic 3.5-2.5 (Elo diff: 60)
3. R32 Viridithas - Clover 10.5 - 9.5 (Elo diff: 20)
4. R32 Caissa - Obsidian 7.5-6.5 (Elo diff: 80)
5. R32 Willow - DeepSjeng 6.5-5.5 (Elo diff: 29)

Tiebreaks

1. R32 Stormphrax - Weiss 3.5-2.5
2. R32 Texel - Booot 3.5-4.5
3. R32 Marvin - Arasan 4.5-5.5
4. R32 Altair - Minic 3.5-2.5
5. R32 Viridithas - Clover 10.5-9.5
6. R32 Caissa - Obsidian 7.5-6.5
7. R32 Willow - DeepSjeng 6.5-5.5
8. Semifinal RubiChess - LCZero 6.5-7.5

Whales & Heroes

Whales: RobbyRobbyRob(x3) Ove__(x3) PawnMasseur(x2) mrbdzz(x6) 1coghoti(x2) creyzamo(x6) kittenkaboodle(x4) gmfake(2) Zyronx1(x8)🏆 bequral(x4) crazy_igel_fan tmsenseii(x2) windfishballad(x2) polotovarman Siciliani101 cylently61 ⭐ Final Game 22
Heroes: Ove__ gmfake Zyronx1 bequral ⭐ Final Game 3