TCEC Swiss 6
See also TCEC Swiss rules.
Contents
Tournament format
The TCEC Swiss 6 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.
Deadline
Deadline for sending in the (updated) engines is Monday 15 January 2024 12:00 UTC.
Invited engines
Here is the full list of engines that are invited and envisioned to participate.
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 throughmeans declined or not participating- bold italics means engine and/or update received.
- italics means engine same as last event.
- underlined means possible invite
Engines
- Stockfish - to be updated per usual procedure
- LCZero - reminder sent per discord - LCZero 0.31-dag-a487796-BT3-2860000 received
- KomodoDragon - no further updates expected in the future, recently updated version 3.3 will play
- Berserk - update incoming, possibly special TCEC branch - version 20240114_tcec-swiss6 received
- RubiChess - update announced -> RubiChess 20240112 received
- Ethereal - minor update announced per discord - normal update procedure
- Stoofvlees - reminder sent - existing version will play
- Igel - no update this time, last known version submitted
- rofChade - possible update announced - update to rofChade 3.103 received
- Clover - update announced per discord - engine received per discord
- Seer - reminder sent - update underway, hopefully ready in time - update received via discord
- Caissa - new version version 1.16 received
- Revenge - no update this time, last known version submitted
- Minic - possible update announced -> received Minic 3.40 per discord and script
- Viridithas - new version available per script
- ScorpioNN - reminder sent - reply received, awaiting version info -> no update
FritzGinkgo - update announced -> replaced by Ginkgo 4.0- DeepSjeng - reminder sent - update announced - updated per discord pm
- Arasan - update wth new net announced - version 24.1 received
- BlackMarlin - update announced, to be completed via discord - updated per usual script
- Uralochka - reminder sent -> update to Uralochka 3 received; the engine is now Open Source
- Marvin - update to Marvin 6.3.0-4 received
- Velvet - update to Velvet v6.0.0 submitted
- Tucano - update announced - major rewrite 11.14 development version received
- Wasp - update announced - Wasp 6.65 received
- Booot - reminder sent - this time old version 7.2 will play, update announced for the near future
- Weiss - reminder sent - update ready per normal script
- Equisetum - update announced -> new version s_4.1.1_NN_variegatum_d received
- Winter - major update to version 2.07b submitted and questionnaire regarding this new architecture received - version 2.07d received
- Expositor -
presumably no update- update received - Stash - reminder sent - update received per discord
- Mr_Bob - UPDATE MANDATORY -> update announced - update received (hopefully stable)
- ChessFighter - update announced - update to version 3.17 received
- StockDory - reminder sent - reply received, no update at the moment, engine kept on hold and in reserve if necessary
- Counter - UPDATE MANDATORY - update to counter-5.5-linux-amd64 received
- Cheese - UPDATE MANDATORY -> update received: Cheese 3.2.0 submitted
- Bagatur - UPDATE MANDATORY -> update to Release 3.7e received
- ice4 - recent version from 4kIII will play
- 4ku - recent version 4ku 4.0 will play
- STRO4K -
provisionally added- update received - Willow - engine submitted
- Akimbo -> akimbo 0.8.0 submitted
- Altair - invitation accepted - newer update in preparation - Altair 1.14 TCEC received
- Stormphrax - invitation accepted - engine submitted per discord
- Obsidian - questionnaire received,
under evaluation->to beinvited - reminder sent - engine received per discord - Avalanche - questionnaire received,
under evaluation->to beinvited - submission announced -> v2.1.0 received (no TB support yet)
Bugfixes and problems
Bugs (or problems) found during the Swiss:
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Engines not playing
Smallbrain- by author's notice, this engine is currently out of developmentBlackCore - UPDATE MANDATORY- by author's notice, this engine is out of development, possibly for good, and will be replaced by WhiteCore later this yearZahak- UPDATE MANDATORY -> by author's notice, invitation declined as engine is EOLFritz-> replaced by Ginkgochess.cpp- questionnaire received,under evaluation->to beinvited - update on existing version announced - withdraws for reason of development problemsKoivisto- UPDATE MANDATORY - reminder sent - engine not playing by message of its authors
Engines that did not respond
- Amoeba - UPDATE MANDATORY - reminder sent - NO REPLY
- OliThink - UPDATE MANDATORY - reminder sent - NO REPLY
Final standings
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Seeding
See the page on seeding for procedural details.
Seeding groups
Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D | Group E | Group F | Group G | Group H | Group I |
Seeding order
- A1
- B1
- C1
- D1
- E1
- F1
- G1
- H1
- A2
- B2
- C2
- D2
- E2
- F2
- G2
- H2
- A3
- B3
- C3
- D3
- E3
- F3
- G3
- H3
- A4
- B4
- C4
- D4
- E4
- F4
- G4
- H4
- A5
- B5
- C5
- D5
- E5
- F5
- G5
- H5
- A6
- B6
- C6
- D6
- E6
- F6
- G6
- H6
Swiss 6 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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