TCEC Season 20

The page TCEC Season 20 collects an overview the relevant pages concerning the season, further navigation is recommended by Category.

Overview

• TCEC Season 20 Engines
• TCEC Season 20 Rules
• TCEC Season 20 Further information
• Engines and authors
• Seasons and admins
• Openings FAQ

Flowchart

Season 20 flowchart of promotions (and relegations)

Questionnaire

All participants are required and kindly asked to fill in the questionnaire below, by email:

1. Who is the main author of your engine’s code?
2. Please name any other engines and authors whose code (if applicable: the various parts of) your engine, uses?
3. What is the license(s) under which (if applicable: the various parts of) your engine’s code is/are placed?
4. Please name the parts and the authors of the code you use for training in case you use a neural network?
5. In case your engine uses Training Data (NNUE or NN parts): what is the origin of this data? Did you obtain permission for use from the original authors if applicable?
6. In case of NNUE: does you engine comply with the TCEC NNUE Guideline as mentioned above, to the best of your knowledge?

This questionnaire is a requirement for TCEC participation. Answers are not made public by TCEC, but authors can so do of their own accord.

Apart from this. there exists of course also the Chess Programmer Code of Honor.