TCEC Season 16

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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]

Tournament

Rules: TCEC Season 16 Rules

Qualification league

1x DRR with time control 30+5 – using a 2 move book, randomized

Archive: https://cd.tcecbeta.club/archive.html?season=16&div=ql&game=1

League 2

1x DRR with time control 30+5 – using a 4 move book, randomized

Archive: https://cd.tcecbeta.club/archive.html?season=16&div=l2&game=1

League 1

1x DRR with time control 45+5 - using a 6 move book, randomized

The highlight game:

  • TCEC Season 16 League 1 Game 103 – Stoofvlees-Ethereal. A remarkable game where Stoofvlees made a long-term positional piece sacrifice. While being a piece down for the most of the remaining game, Stoofvlees maintained the positional advantage to constrain Ethereal, and installed an octopus knight[2] dominating Ethereal's pieces. This finally lead to victory by Stoofvlees.

Other notable games:

Archive: https://cd.tcecbeta.club/archive.html?season=16&div=l1&game=1

League 1 playoffs

Archive: https://cd.tcecbeta.club/archive.html?season=16&div=l1playoff&game=1

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

  1. TCEC Season 16 – information and participants, http://www.chessdom.com/tcec-season-16-information-and-participants/
  2. Anatoli Karpov vs Garry Kasparov, 16th game of the World Championship match, Moscow, 1985. https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-octopus-knight