TCEC Swiss 7

See also TCEC Swiss rules‎‎.

Tournament format

The TCEC Swiss 7 uses the TCEC Swiss Tournament System with the following configuration:

• 11 double rounds
• Group seeding with .. engines divided in .. groups. Groups populated using TCEC Season 25 and Swiss 5 compiled final results.

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

to be invited for swiss and/or qualification playoffs

engines already in leagues

1. Stockfish - engine promised
2. LCZero
3. Berserk
4. KomodoDragon - existing Dragon 3.3 will play
5. Ethereal
6. Seer
7. RubiChess - RubiChess 20240817 received
8. Stoofvlees
9. Caissa
10. Obsidian
11. rofChade
12. Viridithas - update per script submitted
13. Igel - engine under development, unclear if update ready in time atm
14. Revenge - new version submitted
15. Arasan - update per script submitted
16. Clover - update by discord promised
17. Velvet - version 8.0.0 submitted
18. Minic - existing Version 3.41 submitted, update in the making but likely not yet ready
19. Uralochka - update promised
20. Stormphrax - update per script (discord)
21. Ginkgo - update promised
22. DeepSjeng
23. BlackMarlin - update per script incoming
24. Marvin
25. Altair
26. Equisetum
27. Booot
28. Weiss - same version will play
29. Tucano - update per script promised
30. akimbo - to be updated by usual script

category 0 - returning engines not directly qualified

1. Texel
2. Counter - update mandatory for entrance
3. Stash
4. Winter - updated to version 4.01a
5. Wasp - update promised
6. ChessFighter - update mandatory for entrance -> update promised
7. Cheng - Cheng 4.48 submitted
8. ice4 - latest version ice4 v5 submitted
9. 4ku
10. Bagatur - update to 5.1 received -> updated to version 5.1b - is now NNUE engine so awaiting new questionnaire
11. Halogen - was recently updated and updated questionnaire received

new engines category 1 (highest originality priority)

1. Patricia
2. Ceres - engine promised
3. Heimdall - Heimdall 1.0-beta to be submitted soon -> received

new engines category 2 (own data)

1. PlentyChess - engine promised
2. Renegade - engine promised
3. Princhess - update announced
4. Reckless - conditional: Multi-threaded initialization is likely necessary to use 98GB RAM without timing out at the start of the game - to be updated by script (no syzygy)
5. Clarity - engine promised
6. Lizard - version 10.5 received (no syzygy)
7. Integral

new engines category 3 (leela data)

1. Quanticade - engine promised (no syzygy)
2. Serendipity - engine promised
3. Devre
4. Spaghet - engine promised via discord

new engines category 4 (no questionnaire or failed originality test)

all have been categorized above

other engines, as yet uncategorized

all have been categorized above

Bugfixes and problems

Bugs (or problems) found during the Swiss:

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Engines not playing

inactive or not responding

1. Torch unwilling
2. Carp (NNUE, TB, SMP, own data, !bullet trainer) by Andrea Sgobbi: github.com/dede1751/carp inactive
3. Pytteliten (4K engine) by Cristopher Torgrip: github.com/crippa1337/Pytteliten stalled
4. Mr_Bob - no update, skipping season
5. Cheese - no update, skipping season
6. ScorpioNN - no update, skipping season
7. StockDory - needs update and reply to prelimary email sent aug 11 2024 no timely reply received
8. Avalanche - development is paused acc to dev
9. Willow - engine retracted in favor of Patricia entering by same dev
10. Expositor - no update: withdraws voluntarily to make place for new engines

other new and suggested engines (from discord) not contacted - possible entrants for next season

1. Peacekeeper (NNUE, Lc0 data, modified Carbon trainer, SMP, FRC) by Sazgr: github.com/Sazgr/peacekeeper
2. WhiteCore (NNUE, TB, own data?, custom trainer), successor of !BlackCore by Balázs Szilágyi: github.com/SzilBalazs/WhiteCore
3. Superultra (NNUE, Lc0 data, own trainer) by Alexander Liang: github.com/A1exL1ang/Superultra
4. Titan (NNUE, Lc0 data) by Jeff Powell: github.com/jeff-pow/Titan
5. Midnight (NNUE, SMP, !bullet trainer) by Archishmaan Peyyety: github.com/archishou/MidnightChessEngine
6. Motor (github.com/martinnovaak/motor) by Martin Novák

Final standings

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Seeding

See the page on seeding for procedural details.

Seeding groups

Seeding groups

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D	Group E	Group F	Group G	Group H	Group I

Seeding order

1. A1
2. B1
3. C1
4. D1
5. E1
6. F1
7. G1
8. H1
9. A2
10. B2
11. C2
12. D2
13. E2
14. F2
15. G2
16. H2
17. A3
18. B3
19. C3
20. D3
21. E3
22. F3
23. G3
24. H3
25. A4
26. B4
27. C4
28. D4
29. E4
30. F4
31. G4
32. H4
33. A5
34. B5
35. C5
36. D5
37. E5
38. F5
39. G5
40. H5
41. A6
42. B6
43. C6
44. D6
45. E6
46. F6
47. G6
48. H6

Swiss 7 results

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Swiss Opening Book

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Trivia

Overachiever

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Drawking

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Top ELO gainers

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Poll results

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Upsets

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