TCEC FRC 5

2022 FRC 5 - Flowchart of leagues and stages with equal distance seeding

See also TCEC FRC rules.

Explanation of typography

Explanation of special typography:

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

Participating engines

1. Stockfish - update promised -> dev16_20220705
2. LCZero - updated to 0.30-dev-dag-bord_784038
3. KomodoDragon - update promised
4. Berserk - update to dev10_20220629 sent in -> dev9_20220525 -> dev10_20220701
5. ScorpioNN - no reply, no update
6. Stoofvlees - no reply, no update
7. Ethereal - update to 13.76 sent in -> 13.76-e1375.fischer
8. rofChade - existing version will play
9. RubiChess - update not sure -> update to 20220704 sent in -> updated to 20220706
10. SlowChess - update 2.9 avx2 sent in
11. Chiron - engine not updated
12. Nemorino - existing version 5.11 will play
13. Marvin - update sent in
14. Velvet - update v4.0.0 sent in -> updated to v4.0.1 (DFRC support)
15. ClassicAra - possible update coming -> 1.0.1 sent in
16. Revenge - update sent in
17. Cheese - no update, older version will play
18. BlackMarlin - update to 6.0dev-2 committed (includes fix of a threads bug)
19. Minic - contact via discord -> update to 3.24 sent in
20. Wasp - update promised -> update to 5.58 sent in
21. Winter - update sent in 0.9.8 -> 0.9.9
22. Weiss - engine not updated
23. Vajolet2 - no reply, no update
24. Stash - update to 33.7 sent in
25. Monolith - no reply, no update
    1. Bagatur FRC - updated to 3.4 (includes an estimated +150 ELO Transposition Table bug fix, regaining elo-loss druring swiss) -> updated to 3.4a -> updated to 3.4b - crashes, awaiting last minute fix - not in, cannot play
    2. Bagatur DFRC - 3.4c released for possible DFRC participation

Cheng - engine withdraws from TCEC until further progress is made

Bugs and problems found in DFRC/FRC testing

1. RubiChess blitzing. Fixed
2. Bagatur fails to tell it supports FRC and cutechess-cli + testing script around it kind of goes to infinite loop. Fixed
3. No DFRC support: Velvet. Fixed
4. No DFRC support: Lc0
5. Bagatur crashed in Testing games 69, 70

Deadline

Engine submission deadline was Tuesday, 5 July 2022 at 23.59 UTC.

Start time

FRC 5 started Saturday 9 July at 17:00 UTC

Seeding

1. Stockfish
2. LCZero
3. Berserk
4. KomodoDragon
5. RubiChess
6. Ethereal
7. SlowChess
8. Revenge
9. Stoofvlees
10. ScorpioNN
11. rofChade
12. Nemorino
13. Minic
14. Marvin
15. Wasp
16. Winter
17. BlackMarlin
18. Velvet
19. Weiss
20. Stash
21. Vajolet2
22. Chiron
23. ClassicAra
24. Monolith
25. Cheese
26. Bagatur

The Leagues in detail

First phase

League A

1. Stockfish
5. RubiChess
9. Stoofvlees
13. Minic
17. BlackMarlin
21. Vajolet2
25. Cheese

• Final standings in archive.

League B

3. Berserk
7. SlowChess
11. rofChade
15. Wasp
19. Weiss
23. ClassicAra

• [ Final standings] in archive.

League C

2. LCZero
6. Ethereal
10. ScorpioNN
14. Marvin
18. Velvet
22. Chiron
26. Bagatur

• [ Final standings] in archive.

League D

4. KomodoDragon
8. Revenge
12. Nemorino
16. Winter
20. Stash
24. Monolith

• [ Final standings] in archive.

Second phase

Semileague 1

...

• [ Final standings] in archive.

Semileague 2

...

• [ Final standings] in archive.

Third phase

Final League

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• [ Final standings] in archive.

FRC Final

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• [ Final standings] in archive.

Results

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Trivia

Polls

1. Which four will reach the Final League?
2. Top three overachievers?

Overachievers

1. BlackMarlin +25 ELO (9/12 games in League A)