TCEC Season 16
TCEC Season 16 is the ongoing season of the Top Chess Engine Championship. The tournament structure was changed from the 8 engines per division format to the 16 engines per league format. The premier division was kept as the group for the top 8 engines of the tournament.[1]
Contents
Tournament
Qualification league
1x DRR with time control 30+5 – using a 2 move book, randomized
League 2
1x DRR with time control 30+5 – using a 4 move book, randomized
League 1
1x DRR with time control 45+5 - using a 6 move book, randomized
The highlight game of the league: TCEC Season 16 League 1 Game 103 – Stoofvlees-Ethereal. A remarkable game where Stoofvlees made a long-term positional piece sacrifice. While being piece down for the most of the remaining game, Stoofvlees was maintained the positional advantage to constrain Ethereal, and installed an octopus knight[2] dominating Ethereal's pieces.
Other notable games:
- TCEC Season 16 League 1 Game 73 – Arasan-Stoofvlees
- TCEC Season 16 League 1 Game 88 – Stoofvlees-ScorpioNN
- TCEC Season 16 League 1 Game 163 – Ginkgo-Stoofvlees
League 1 playoffs
Premier division
3x DRR with time control 90′+5″ – using a new 8 move book by Cato aka Nelson Hernandez
Superfinal
100 games with time control 120′+10″ – using a new book by Jeroen Noomen
References
- ↑ TCEC Season 16 – information and participants, http://www.chessdom.com/tcec-season-16-information-and-participants/
- ↑ Anatoli Karpov vs Garry Kasparov, 16th game of the World Championship match, Moscow, 1985. https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-octopus-knight
