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 - update at deadline
2. LCZero - reminder sent day of deadline
3. KomodoDragon - likely updated to 3.3 -> ultimate version 3.3 submitted
4. Ethereal - version 14.25 and FRC net AD09A846 submitted per discord
5. Stoofvlees - reminder sent day of deadline - version II b5 is still current
6. RubiChess - minor update announced
7. Revenge - development version Revenge_TCEC submitted
8. Berserk - major update announced - updated settings submitted -> Berserk 20231118 submitted
9. rofChade - latest version 3.1 submitted
10. Minic - version 3.39 submitted
11. SlowChess - reminder sent day of deadline
12. Velvet - reminder sent day of deadline
13. ScorpioNN - reminder sent day of deadline - update: reverted back to better version with 20b net
14. Marvin - update to version 6.3.0-3 submitted
15. BlackMarlin - reminder sent day of deadline -> no update, existing last version will play
16. Smallbrain - update per normal procedure announced
17. Wasp - new version promised -> Wasp 6.62 submitted
18. Weiss - update to be done per discord
19. Winter - reminder sent day of deadline -> no update, existing last version will play
20. Stash - reminder sent day of deadline
21. Equisetum - update announced
22. Halogen - reminder sent day of deadline
23. Viridithas - newly updated version submitted
24. Caissa - version 1.13.15 -> 1.14 -> 1.14.1 submitted
25. Clover - update announced to be done per discord -> new version submitted
26. DeepSjeng - reminder sent day of deadline - update announced -> DeepSjeng 36a29 submitted
27. Nemorino - reminder sent day of deadline - acc to dev engine is EOL will no longer be maintained or updated
28. Vajolet2 -> existing engine will replace the one not playing

Engines not playing

1. Bagatur - reminder sent day of deadline - no update and prefers to skip the event this time
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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. Vajolet2

• [ 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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2. ...

• [ Final standings] in archive.

Results

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Trivia

Polls

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Whales & Heroes

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