TCEC FRC 6

2023 FRC 6 - 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 per normal procedure: dev-20230503-72d542f0 -> dev-20230507-65e21505 received
2. LCZero - update 0.30-dag-a9b25c2b-BT2-3650000 -> 0.31-dag-1f90473-T1-4000000 received
3. KomodoDragon - no update as 3.2 is still latest version
4. Berserk
5. Ethereal - possible update coming -> updates 13.96-2bb01.fischer -> 14.13-frc -> 14.15-frc received
6. Stoofvlees
7. SlowChess
8. Revenge - update to version TCEC received
9. RubiChess - new version RubiChess 20230419 submitted, but newer may come still too: 20230301 -> 20230419 (also bench ARCH=x86-64-bmi2)
10. rofChade
11. ScorpioNN
12. Minic - likely no update this time
13. BlackMarlin - no update, existing version will play
14. Marvin - update 6.2.0-a7 to 6.2.0-a11 received
15. Wasp - update announced -> update 6.11 to 6.53 received
16. Halogen
17. Velvet - update announced -> update 5.1.0 to Velvet v5.2.0 received
18. Nemorino
19. Smallbrain - update received per discord
20. Winter - update 1.23 to 2.04b received
21. Stash - update 34.3 to v34.7 or v34.8 incoming -> 34.9 received
22. Weiss - update per normal procedure 2.1-dev6 to Weiss 2.1-dev7
23. Drofa - update 3.3.26 to 3.3.27 received
24. Cheese - no update, same version 3.1.1 will play

Bugs and problems found in DFRC/FRC testing

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Engines not playing

1. Igel - no FRC implementation ready yet

Deadline

Engine submission deadline is "the last move of 4k 2 event"

Start time

FRC 6 started May 19 2023 at 17.00 UTC.

Seeding

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

The Leagues in detail

First phase

League A

1.Stockfish
5. Ethereal
9. RubiChess
13. BlackMarlin
17. Velvet
21. Stash

• Final standings in archive.

League B

3. KomodoDragon
7. SlowChess
11. ScorpioNN
15. Wasp
19. Smallbrain
23. Drofa

• Final standings in archive.

League C

2. LCZero
6. Stoofvlees
10. rofChade
14. Marvin
18. Nemorino
22. Weiss

• Final standings in archive.

League D

4. Berserk
8. Revenge
12. Minic
16. Halogen
20. Winter
24. Cheese

• Final standings in archive.

Second phase

Semileague 1

1. Stockfish
2. KomodoDragon
3. Stoofvlees
4. Minic

• [ Final standings] in archive.

Semileague 2

1. LCZero
2. Berserk
3. RubiChess
4. ScorpioNN

• [ Final standings] in archive.

Third phase

Final League

1. Stockfish
2. LCZero
3. KomodoDragon
4. RubiChess

• [ Final standings] in archive.

FRC Final

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• [ Final standings] in archive.

Results

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Trivia

Polls

1. Which 8 engines will advance from the Leagues (A, B, C, D) to the Semileagues stage?(Closed)
2. Who will win its League (A, B, C, or D) most convincingly?(Closed)
3. Who will win the FRC Final league?(Closed)

Whales & Heroes

FRC Whales: Zyronx1 masterkni6 windfishballad🏆(x5) platyhelminth RobbyRobbyRob ⭐ Final League Game 7
FRC Heroes: windfishballad ⭐ League C Game 21