TCEC FRC 4

2020 FRC 4 - 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. KomodoDragon - Update coming
2. Stockfish - Update coming
3. Lc0 - Update coming
4. Stoofvlees - no update. Stoofvlees II a18 will play.
5. Scorpio - Update coming
6. Ethereal
7. SlowChess - updated to SlowChess Blitz 2.8 avx.
8. Rubichess
9. Nemorino - Failed FRC startup test. Update needed. -> Nemorino 6.10 submitted
10. Defenchess
11. Vajolet
12. Winter
13. MultiAra - engine file needed
14. Revenge - updated to Revenge 20211210
15. Monolith
16. Minic - no update
17. Weiss - no update. Weiss 2.1-dev will play.
18. Cheng - no update. Cheng 4.42_dev will play.
19. Stash - updated to Stash 32.1
20. Berserk - updated to Berserk 9-dev
21. Cheese - updated to Cheese 3.0 beta. 16 threads -> 104 threads, 16GiB Hash -> 64GiB Hash. FRC castling bug fix update Cheese 3.0 beta2 received.
22. Critter

Bugs and problems found in FRC testing

1. Nemorino failed FRC startup test. Update received
2. Cheese - 2 x illegal move. Update received

Deadline

Engine submission deadline is Sunday, December 19, 2021 23:59 UTC. Invitations have been sent.

Seeding

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The Leagues in detail

League A

1. KomodoDragon 5. Scorpio 9. Nemorino 13. MultiAra 17. Weiss 21. Cheese

League B

3. Lc0 7. SlowChess 11. Vajolet 15. Monolith 19. Stash

League C

2. Stockfish 6. Ethereal 10. Defenchess 14. Revenge 18. Cheng 22. Critter

League D

4. Stoofvlees 8. Rubichess 12. Winter 16. Minic 20. Berserk

Semileague 1

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Semileague 2

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Final League

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Final

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Results

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Trivia

Polls

1. Winner?