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 - Stockfish dev-20231222-fbdf5d94 -> ?
- 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 - RubiChess 20231105 -> 20240112
- 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 - rofChade 3.1 -> 3.103
- 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 - Caissa 1.14.1 -> 1.16.2
- 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 - Ginkgo Valencia_1.01 -> 4.0- DeepSjeng - reminder sent - update announced - update version 36a30 received
- Arasan - update wth new net announced - version 24.1 received
- BlackMarlin - update announced, to be completed via discord - updated per usual script - BlackMarlin 8.0dev-2 -> 8.0 - BlackMarlin 8.0dev-2 -> ?
- Uralochka - reminder sent -> update to Uralochka 3 received; the engine is now Open Source
- Marvin - update to Marvin 6.3.0-4 received - Marvin 6.3.0-3 -> 6.3.0-4
- Velvet - update to Velvet v6.0.0 submitted
- Tucano - update announced - major rewrite 11.14 development version received - Tucano 10.13 -> 11.14
- Wasp - update announced - Wasp 6.65 received -> overview of updates: Wasp 6.62 -> 6.65 -> 6.65b -> 6.65c
- 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 - Weiss 2.1-dev9 -> 2.1-dev10
- Equisetum - update announced -> new version s_4.1.1_NN_variegatum_d received - Equisetum s_4.0.6c.NN_variegatum.a -> s_4.1.1_NN_variegatum_d
- 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 - Expositor 25.C -> WK16+1159 but is it perhaps same version? - 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
- 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 -> version 2.1 - STRO4K 2.0 -> 2.1 - Willow - engine submitted
- Akimbo -> akimbo 0.8.0 submitted
- Altair - invitation accepted - newer update in preparation - Altair 6.1.3 TCEC received - Altair 6.1.3
- 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) - Cheng - questionnaire received and approved, invited and accepted, engine Cheng 4.44 dev received - Cheng 4.42_dev -> 4.44_dev
- Texel - questionnaire
pending,received, and approved - Texel 1.11 received
StockDory - reminder sent - reply received, no update at the moment, engine kept on hold and in reserve if necessary -> update to StockDory Starfish-0.1 received
Bugs and problems
- Wasp crashed in Swiss testing games #33, #34, #93, #234
- Stash time loss in Swiss testing game #39
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 |
Stockfish | Stoofvlees | Revenge | Arasan | Wasp | Stash | ice4 | Altair |
LCZero | Igel | Minic | BlackMarlin | Booot | Mr Bob | 4ku | Stormphrax |
KomodoDragon | rofChade | Viridithas | Uralochka | Weiss | ChessFighter | STRO4K | Obsidian |
Berserk | Clover | ScorpioNN | Marvin | Equisetum | Counter | Willow | Avalanche |
RubiChess | Seer | Fritz | Velvet | Winter | Cheese | Akimbo | Cheng |
Ethereal | Caissa | DeepSjeng | Tucano | Expositor | Bagatur |
Seeding order
- (A1) Stockfish
- (B1) Stoofvlees
- (C1) Revenge
- (D1) Arasan
- (E1) Wasp
- (F1) Stash
- (G1) ice4
- (H1) Altair
- (A2) LCZero
- (B2) Igel
- (C2) Minic
- (D2) BlackMarlin
- (E2) Booot
- (F2) Mr Bob
- (G2) 4ku
- (H2) Stormphrax
- (A3) KomodoDragon
- (B3) rofChade
- (C3) Viridithas
- (D3) Uralochka
- (E3) Weiss
- (F3) ChessFighter
- (G3) STRO4K
- (H3) Obsidian
- (A4) Berserk
- (B4) Clover
- (C4) ScorpioNN
- (D4) Marvin
- (E4) Equisetum
- (F4) Counter
- (G4) Willow
- (H4) Avalanche
- (A5) RubiChess
- (B5) Seer
- (C5) Fritz
- (D5) Velvet
- (E5) Winter
- (F5) Cheese
- (G5) Akimbo
- (H5) Cheng
- (A6) Ethereal
- (B6) Caissa
- (C6) DeepSjeng
- (D6) Tucano
- (E6) Expositor
- (F6) Bagatur
Swiss 6 results
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Swiss Opening Book
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Trivia
Whales & Heroes
Whales:
Heroes: