TCEC FRD 1

2023 FRD 1 - Flowchart of leagues and stages with equal distance top seeding

See also TCEC FRD 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

provisional list including seeding numbers 1-8 for fixed seeding:

1. Stockfish
2. LCZero
3. KomodoDragon - likely updated to 3.3
4. Ethereal
5. Stoofvlees
6. RubiChess
7. Revenge
8. Berserk
9. rofChade
10. Minic - version 3.39 submitted
11. SlowChess
12. Velvet
13. ScorpioNN
14. Marvin
15. BlackMarlin
16. Smallbrain
17. Wasp - new version promised
18. Weiss
19. Winter
20. Stash
21. Equisetum
22. Halogen
23. Viridithas
24. Caissa - version 1.13.15 -> 1.14 submitted
25. Clover - update announced to be done per discord
26. DeepSjeng
27. Bagatur
28. Nemorino

Engines not playing

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Deadline

FRD 1 submission deadline is: November 18 2023 at 17.00 UTC

Start time

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Seeding

The first 8 in the list of participating engines are fixed seedings, the rest have been seeded randomly over the remaining places.

The Leagues in detail

First phase

League A

1. Stockfish
2. Stoofvlees
3. Caissa
4. DeepSjeng
5. BlackMarlin
6. Weiss
7. Nemorino

• [ Final standings] in archive.

League B

1. KomodoDragon
2. Revenge
3. Equisetum
4. rofChade
5. ScorpioNN
6. Winter
7. Bagatur

• [ Final standings] in archive.

League C

1. LCZero
2. RubiChess
3. Marvin
4. Halogen
5. Viridithas
6. SlowChess
7. Minic

• [ Final standings] in archive.

League D

1. Ethereal
2. Berserk
3. Stash
4. Clover
5. Velvet
6. Smallbrain
7. Wasp

• [ Final standings] in archive.

Second phase

Semileague 1

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• [ Final standings] in archive.

Semileague 2

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• [ Final standings] in archive.

Third phase

Final League

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• [ Final standings] in archive.

FRC Final

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• [ Final standings] in archive.

Results

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Trivia

Polls

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Whales & Heroes

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