TCEC Season 17 Engines

This page TCEC Season 17 Engines is used for constant updating during TCEC Season 17, to see which engines and updates have been requested, announced and received.

For authors see Engines_and_authors

Explanation of special typography:

• bold engines are invited
• struck through means declined or not participating
• bold italics means engine and/or update received.
• underlined means possible invite

CPU engines

Competitors by last season's final ranking

DivP

1. Stockfish
2. Komodo
3. Houdini

CPUL1

1. Komodo MCTS - updated to kt-2484.57bmi2
2. Laser - updated to 1.8_beta_256th
3. Ethereal - update to V11.85 received
4. Xiphos - update to 0.6.1 received
5. Andscacs - no longer under development
6. Fizbo - no longer under development
7. ChessBrainVB
8. Booot - no longer under development
9. rofChade - update to 2.212 received
10. Arasan
11. Fire - no longer under development
12. Defenchess - currently under investigation which version will play
13. RubiChess - L1 update to 1.7-dev_20200124193649 received
14. Vajolet2 - update to 2.9 received
15. Pedone - L1 update to 20200125 received
16. Nemorino - L1 update to 5.28 received

Replacement queue in case the above engines cannot play

1. Pedone - L1 update to 20200125 received - MOVED TO ABOVE
2. Nemorino - L1 update to 5.28 received - MOVED TO ABOVE
3. Winter - QL version
4. Pesto

L2

1. Pedone - L2 update received
2. Fire - engine already in
3. Nemorino - update received
4. Texel - engine already in
5. Vajolet - update received
6. Gull - engine already in
7. RubiChess - L2 update received
8. Wasp - update received
9. DefenChess - QL version
10. Demolito - QL version
11. Winter - QL version
12. Pirarucu - QL version
13. Igel - updates received
14. iCE - QL version
15. Minic - update received
16. PeSTO - QL version

QL

1. Pirarucu - update received
2. Marvin - update received
3. Topple - update received
4. Asymptote - update received
5. Winter - QL version in, L2 update announced
6. Igel - updates received
7. Minic - update received
8. Cheese - update received
9. Tucano - update received
10. Demolito - updates received
11. Gogobello - update received
12. iCE - version and settings confirmed
13. DefenChess - update received
14. FabChess - engine received
15. Counter - version and settings confirmed
16. PeSTO - engine received

Possible new entries

1. DefenChess
2. iCE
3. Demolito
4. Gogobello
5. FabChess
6. Schooner
7. Counter
8. PeSTO

Engines not playing

1. Jumbo (no Linux version yet)
2. Rodent 4 (in coordination with author)
3. The Baron - (no update received)
4. Bagatur - (no update received)
5. Schooner - (no update received)
6. Chiron - S16 version does not run under WINE, linux updated promised to be ready for S18
7. Jonny - disqualified due to crashing processes, author cannot update at present

Engines crashed out during testing

1. chess22k - 3 crashes during testing, disqualified
2. Fritz - 3 crashes during testing, disqualified

GPU engines

Competitors by ranking

DivP

1. AllieStein
2. LCZero
3. Stoofvlees II

GPUL1

1. ScorpioNN
2. ChessFighterNN
3. ... (other potential engines currently being researched)

Possible new entries

1. ...

Engines not playing

1. ...