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TCEC, (nTCEC)
the Top Chess Engines Competition, prior to season 8 in 2015 called the Thoresen Chess Engines Competition, is a private tournament and rating list [1] , organized, directed and hosted by Martin Thoresen and Chessdom. It's goal is to provide viewers a live broadcast [2] 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 [3] [4] . After a break in 2011 [5] , Thoresen relaunched TCEC in January 2013 [6] . In August 2013, for the start of season 5, TCEC joined forces with Chessdom Arena [7] [8] .

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 [9]

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 ...

2011
2012
2013
2014

2015 ...


External Links

Season 11

Season 12


References

  1. ^ TCEC - Archive Mode has the Official TCEC Ratings calculated using Ordo by Miguel Ballicora, bottom-right
  2. ^ TCEC - Live Computer Chess Broadcast
  3. ^ Houdini – Rybka LIVE! | Chessdom
  4. ^ Houdini elbows past Rybka to win computer chess challenge - Alexandra Kosteniuk's Chess Blog, January 25, 2011
  5. ^ TCEC announcement: End of project by Martin Thoresen, CCC, May 28, 2011
  6. ^ Official (re)launch of TCEC - website is up! by Martin Thoresen, CCC, January 12, 2013
  7. ^ TCEC computer chess championship New Season starts August 26th | Chessdom, August 15, 2013
  8. ^ Chessdom Chess Arena - Play Online Chess
  9. ^ TCEC announcement: End of project by Martin Thoresen, CCC, May 28, 2011
  10. ^ TCEC Season 11 - League-system by Stefan Pohl, CCC, November 10, 2017

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Joona Kiiski Aug 31, 2017
Komodo Mar 6, 2018
Marco Costalba Feb 28, 2018
Martin Thoresen Apr 29, 2015
Nelson Hernandez Nov 23, 2017
Nightmare NL Dec 12, 2016
Stockfish Apr 7, 2018
TCEC Apr 18, 2018
TCEC Season 10 Jan 3, 2018
TCEC Season 11 Apr 18, 2018
TCEC Season 5 Jun 2, 2014
TCEC Season 6 Dec 2, 2014
TCEC Season 7 Jan 23, 2015
TCEC Season 8 Nov 30, 2015
TCEC Season 9 Nov 6, 2017
Tournaments Dec 21, 2017

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