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toc the Top Chess Engines Competition, prior to season 8 in 2015 called the **Thoresen** Chess Engines Competition, is a private tournament and rating list, organized, directed and hosted by Martin Thoresen and Chessdom. It's goal is to provide viewers a live broadcast of matches played between strong chess engines. Supported by original engine authors in providing their engines, and based on voluntariness and [|donation], TCEC does not enforce ICGA rules and sanctions concerning engine originality. Starting in 2010, TCEC caused a furor in February 2011, when Houdini 1.5 defeated Rybka 4.0 in a match, with the event recognized in various chess blogs. After a break in 2011, Thoresen relaunched TCEC in January 2013. In August 2013, for the start of season 5, TCEC joined forces with Chessdom Arena.
 * TCEC**, (nTCEC)

=Tournaments=
 * ~ Season ||~ from ||~  ||~   ||~   ||~   ||~ until ||~   ||~   ||~   ||~   ||~ Winner ||~   ||~ Result ||~   ||~ Runner up ||
 * TCEC Season 1 || December ||  ||~   || 2010 ||~   || February || 06 ||~   || 2011 ||~   || Houdini 1.5a ||~   ||~ 23½ - 16½ ||~   || Rybka 4.0 ||
 * TCEC Season 2 || February || 11 ||~  || 2011 ||~   || April || 21 ||~   || 2011 ||~   || Houdini 1.5a ||~   ||~ 22 - 18 ||~   || Rybka 4.1 ||
 * TCEC Season 3 || April || 29 ||~  || 2011 ||~   || May || 28 ||~   || 2011 ||~   ||   ||~   ||~ canceled ||~   ||   ||
 * TCEC Season 4 (nTCEC 1) || January || 22 ||~  || 2013 ||~   || May || 09 ||~   || 2013 ||~   || Houdini 3 ||~   ||~ 25 - 23 ||~   || Stockfish 250413 ||
 * TCEC Season 5 (nTCEC 2) || August || 26 ||~  || 2013 ||~   || December || 01 ||~   || 2013 ||~   || Komodo 1142 ||~   ||~ 25 - 23 ||~   || Stockfish 191113 ||
 * TCEC Season 6 || February || 07 ||~  || 2014 ||~   || May || 30 ||~   || 2014 ||~   || Stockfish 170514 ||~   ||~ 35½ - 28½ ||~   || Komodo 7 ||
 * TCEC Season 7 || September || 19 ||~  || 2014 ||~   || December || 27 ||~   || 2014 ||~   || Komodo 1333 ||~   ||~ 33½ - 30½ ||~   || Stockfish 141214 ||
 * TCEC Season 8 || August || 21 ||~  || 2015 ||~   || November || 30 ||~   || 2015 ||~   || Komodo 9.3x ||~   ||~ 53½ - 46½ ||~   || Stockfish 021115 ||
 * TCEC Season 9 || May || 01 ||~  || 2016 ||~   || December || 05 ||~   || 2016 ||~   || Stockfish 8 ||~   ||~ 54½ - 45½ ||~   || Houdini 5 ||
 * TCEC Season 10 || October || 14 ||~  || 2017 ||~   || December || 08 ||~   || 2017 ||~   || Houdini 6.03 ||~   ||~ 53 - 47 ||~   || Komodo 1970.00 ||
 * TCEC Season 11 || January || 03 ||~  || 2018  ||~   ||  April || 15 ||~   ||  2018   ||~   || Stockfish 260318  ||~  ||~  59 - 41 ||~   || Houdini 6.03  ||
 * TCEC Season 12 || April || 18 ||~  || 2018  ||~   ||  || ||~   ||  2018   ||~   ||  ||~  ||~   ||~   ||  ||

=Forum Posts=

2010 ...

 * [|Which match pair next? For the long TC matches. POLL!] by Martin Thoresen, CCC, July 26, 2010
 * [|Premiere: www.tcec-chess.org re-launched!] by Martin Thoresen, CCC, August 13, 2010
 * [|TCEC website update/news - now with Game of the Month!] by Martin Thoresen, CCC, September 24, 2010
 * [|TCEC relaunched! New rules, Divisions ++ MUST READ!] by Martin Thoresen, CCC, November 30, 2010
 * [|Grand premiere! The new TCEC! Completely redesigned. Forum++] by Martin Thoresen, CCC, December 19, 2010
 * 2011**
 * [|Alexandra Kosteniuk writes about TCEC] by Robert Houdart, CCC, January 26, 2011
 * [|Houdini-Rybka (150m + 30s) LIVE! - TCEC Elite Match Season 1] by Martin Thoresen, CCC, January 27, 2011
 * [|TCEC Announcement - Season 2 information!] by Martin Thoresen, CCC, February 05, 2011
 * [|Donations to TCEC] by kgburcham, CCC, February 06, 2011
 * [|TCEC SEASON 3 - All info] by Martin Thoresen, CCC, April 25, 2011
 * [|TCEC announcement: End of project] by Martin Thoresen, CCC, May 28, 2011
 * 2012**
 * [|TCEC - general interest?] by Martin Thoresen, CCC, June 18, 2012
 * 2013**
 * [|Official (re)launch of TCEC - website is up!] by Martin Thoresen, CCC, January 12, 2013
 * [|nTCEC Season 2 information + changes] by Martin Thoresen, CCC, August 19, 2013
 * [|Lineup for nTCEC Season 2] by Martin Thoresen, CCC, August 24, 2013
 * [|nTCEC simulation] by Don Dailey, CCC, October 28, 2013
 * [|komodo wins stage 3] by Don Dailey, CCC, November 04, 2013
 * 2014**
 * [| Dear all TCEC fans: New website up. Season 6 -> 7th of Feruary] by Martin Thoresen, CCC, February 05, 2014
 * [|TCEC Season 7 - Main Thread] by Martin Thoresen, CCC, September 17, 2014

2015 ...

 * [|TCEC SEASON 8] by terrapene, OpenChess Forum, August 20, 2015
 * [|TCEC Season 9] by Dmitri Gusev, CCC, April 04, 2016
 * [|TCEC Season 10 announced] by Stefan Pohl, CCC, August 12, 2017
 * [|TCEC Season 11 - League-system] by Stefan Pohl, CCC, November 10, 2017

=External Links=
 * [|TCEC - Live Computer Chess Broadcast]
 * [|Thoresen Chess Engines Competition - Wikipedia]
 * [|Thoresen Chess Engines Competition - TCEC Tournament], [|About.com]
 * [|TCEC - Archive Mode] has the Official TCEC Ratings calculated using Ordo by Miguel Ballicora, bottom-right
 * [|TCEC - Thoresen Chess Engines Competition] | [|Facebook]
 * [|Free Houdini beats commercial Rybka 23.5-16.5 | ChessVibes], February 10, 2011 » Houdini, Rybka
 * [|Thoresen Chess Engine Competition | Denton Chess Club Blog] by Ivan Urwin, October 5, 2013
 * [|Interview with Martin Thoresen – organizer and director of TCEC] by [|Davorin Kuljasevic], Chessdom, May 28, 2014
 * [|Martin Thoresen's World Chess Championship] by Christopher Chabris, January 10, 2015
 * [|TCEC Season 9 officially announced (Updated)], Chessdom, April 02, 2016
 * [|TCEC – structure and participants (part 1)], Chessdom, September 12, 2017

Season 11

 * [|TCEC Season 11 press release], Chessdom, November 10, 2017
 * [|TCEC: Superfinal Houdini vs Komodo] by Stephan Oliver Platz, ChessBase News, November 23, 2017
 * [|TCEC Season 11 – information and participants], Chessdom, December 28, 2017
 * [|Stockfish convincingly wins TCEC Season 11], Chessdom, April 13, 2018

Season 12

 * [|TCEC Season 12 – participants and information], Chessdom, April 15, 2018
 * [|Breaking: Leela Chess Zero enters TCEC Season 12], Chessdom, April 18, 2018 » LCZero

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