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		TCEC Season 7, a private tournament directed and organized by Martin Thoresen and supported by the Chessdom Arena, started on September 19, 2014. There are 4 Stages plus the Superfinal [1] . All book openings until Stage 4 were selected by Nelson Hernandez alias Cato the Younger and Adam Hair, except in Stage 2 which will be run without books. The 32 openings of the Superfinal were selected by IM Erik Kislik.Season 7 was the first season where the use of tablebases for the engines were not allowed.
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Participants

	Engine	CC	Authors	Stages
1	Alfil	ES	Enrique Sánchez Acosta	1a
2	Arasan	US	Jon Dart	1a
3	Arminius	DE	Volker Annuss	1b
4	Cheng	CZ	Martin Sedlak	1a	2
5	Chiron	IT	Ubaldo Andrea Farina	1a	2	3
6	Crafty	US	Robert Hyatt et al.	1b
7	Critter	SK	Richard Vida	1a	2	3
8	Exchess	US	Daniel Homan	1b
9	Gaviota	AR	Miguel A. Ballicora	1a
10	Gull	RU	Vadim Demichev	1a	2	3	4
11	Hannibal	US/PH	Sam Hamilton, Edsel Apostol	1a	2
12	Houdini	BE	Robert Houdart	1b	2	3	4
13	Jonny	DE	Johannes Zwanzger	1b	2
14	Junior	IL	Amir Ban, Shay Bushinsky	1b	2	3
15	Komodo	US	Don Dailey, Larry Kaufman, Mark Lefler	1b	2	3	4	Superfinal	Winner
16	Naum	CA	Alexander Naumov	1b	2
17	Nightmare	NL	Joost Buijs	1b
18	Octochess	DE	Tim Kosse	1a
19	Protector	DE	Raimund Heid	1a	2	3
20	Scorpio	ET	Daniel Shawul	1b
21	Senpai	FR	Fabien Letouzey	1b	2
22	Spark	NL	Allard Siemelink	1b
23	Spike	DE	Ralf Schäfer, Volker Böhm	1a
24	Stockfish	NO/IT/FI	Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski et al.	1a	2	3	4	Superfinal
25	Texel	SE	Peter Österlund	1b	2
26	The Baron	NL	Richard Pijl	1b
27	Toga II	FR/DE	Fabien Letouzey, Thomas Gaksch et al.	1a
28	Tornado	DE	Engin Üstün	1a

• CC Country Codes

Stage 1

September 19, 2014 - October 23, 2014. The top 7 from each of Stage 1A/1B will qualify for Stage 2.

Stage 1a
#	Engine		Gu	Cr	Ci	St	Pr	Ha	Ch	Ga	Ar	Sp	To	Oc	Tg	Al	P13	SB
1	Gull 3	_	x	½	1	1	½	1	½	1	½	1	1	½	1	1	10½	63¾
2	Critter 1.6a	_	½	x	0	½	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	10	54
3	Chiron 2	_	0	1	x	½	1	½	1	1	½	½	½	1	1	1	9½	55¼
4	Stockfish 160914	_	0	½	½	x	½	½	1	1	½	1	1	1	½	1	9	49¾
5	Protector 1.7	_	½	½	0	½	x	½	1	1	0	1	½	1	½	1	8	45¾
6	Hannibal 1.5x5	_	0	½	½	½	½	x	½	½	1	½	½	½	1	1	7½	41½
7	Cheng4 0.36c+	_	½	0	0	0	0	½	x	0	1	½	1	1	½	1	6	29¼
8	Gaviota 1		0	0	0	0	0	½	1	x	½	½	1	½	1	1	6	27
9	Arasan 17.3		½	0	½	½	1	0	0	½	x	½	0	0	½	1	5	31¼
10	Spike 1.4		0	0	½	0	0	½	½	½	½	x	1	½	½	½	5	26¾
11	Tornado 5		0	0	½	0	½	½	0	0	1	0	x	1	1	½	5	26¼
12	Octochess 5374		½	0	0	0	0	½	0	½	1	½	0	x	½	1	4½	22¾
13	Toga II 010214		0	0	0	½	½	0	½	0	½	½	0	½	x	½	3½	19½
14	Alfil 14.1		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	½	0	½	x	1½	6¾
Stage 1b
#	Engine		Ko	Ho	Na	Ju	Jo	Te	Se	Sp	Th	Cr	Sc	Ni	Ex	Ar	P13	SB
1	Komodo 8	_	x	1	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	11½	69
2	Houdini 4	_	0	x	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	11½	63¾
3	Naum 4.6	_	½	½	x	0	½	½	1	1	½	½	1	½	1	1	8½	48
4	Junior 13.3	_	½	0	1	x	½	½	0	½	1	½	½	1	1	1	8	44¼
5	Jonny 6	_	0	0	½	½	x	1	1	1	½	½	½	½	1	1	8	42¼
6	Texel 15a7	_	0	0	½	½	0	x	½	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	7½	35¾
7	Senpai 1	_	0	0	0	1	0	½	x	0	½	1	½	½	1	1	6	28¾
8	Spark 1.1		0	0	0	½	0	½	1	x	½	½	½	½	1	1	6	28¼
9	The Baron 3.36		0	0	½	0	½	½	½	½	x	½	½	½	0	1	5	27
10	Crafty 24.1		0	0	½	½	½	0	0	½	½	x	0	1	1	½	5	26¼
11	Scorpio 2.77		½	0	0	½	½	0	½	½	½	1	x	0	0	½	4½	28¼
12	Nightmare 7.82a		0	0	½	0	½	0	½	½	½	0	1	x	½	½	4½	23¾
13	Exchess 7.31b		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	½	x	½	3	12¾
14	Arminius 090314		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	½	½	½	x	2	8½

• SB: Sonneborn-Berger score

Stage 2

October 24, 2014 - November 10, 2014. The top 8 will qualify for Stage 3.

#	Engine		Ko	St	Gu	Ho	Ju	Cr	Pr	Ch	Te	Na	Jo	Ha	Se	Ce	P13	SB
1	Komodo 1318	_	x	½	½	1	1	½	½	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	10½	61½
2	Stockfish 231014	_	½	x	1	½	½	½	½	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	10	59
3	Gull 3	_	½	0	x	1	½	½	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	1	10	55¾
4	Houdini 4	_	0	½	0	x	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	½	9	49¾
5	Junior 13.3	_	0	½	½	0	x	½	½	1	½	1	1	½	½	1	7½	41
6	Critter 1.6a	_	½	½	½	0	½	x	½	½	1	½	0	1	½	1	7	40½
7	Protector 1.8b1	_	½	½	0	0	½	½	x	½	0	1	½	½	½	1	6	33¾
8	Chiron 2	_	0	0	0	1	0	½	½	x	0	1	1	½	1	½	6	32¼
9	Texel 1.05a9		0	0	0	0	½	0	1	1	x	0	½	1	1	½	5½	26½
10	Naum 4.6		0	0	½	0	0	½	0	0	1	x	½	1	1	1	5½	25½
11	Jonny 6		½	0	0	0	0	1	½	0	½	½	x	1	0	1	5	26¼
12	Hannibal 1.5x12		0	½	0	0	½	0	½	½	0	0	0	x	1	1	4	19¾
13	Senpai 1		0	0	0	0	½	½	½	0	0	0	1	0	x	1	3½	16¾
14	Cheng4 0.36c+		0	0	0	½	0	0	0	½	½	0	0	0	0	x	1½	10¼

• SB: Sonneborn-Berger score

Stage 3

November 10, 2014 - December 01, 2014. Quadruple round robin. The top 4 will qualify for Stage 4

#	Engine		St		Ko		Gu		Ho		Ju		Ch		Cr		Pr	P28	SB
2	Stockfish 091114	_			½½½½		1½½½		1½½1		110½		½1½1		½11½		1111	20	253½
1	Komodo 1324	_	½½½½				½½½½		½1½½		1½½1		111½		½½11		½1½½	18½	237½
3	Gull 3	_	0½½½		½½½½				1½½½		111½		½½½½		0½½½		½½11	16	210½
4	Houdini 4	_	0½½0		½0½½		0½½½				½010		111½		1½11		½1½1	15½	192
5	Junior 13.3		001½		0½½0		000½		½101				0½½½		0½½1		01½½	11	151¾
6	Chiron 2		½0½0		000½		½½½½		000½		1½½½				½½1½		½½½½	11	141¾
7	Critter 1.6a		½00½		½½00		1½½½		0½00		1½½0		½½0½				½½½½	10½	143¾
8	Protector 1.8b2		0000		½0½½		½½00		½0½0		10½½		½½½½		½½½½			9½	124¼

#	Engine		St		Ko		Gu		Ho		Ju		Ch		Cr		Pr	P28	SB
2	Stockfish 091114	_			2		2½		3		2½		3		3		4	20	253½
1	Komodo 1324	_	2				2		2½		3		3½		3		2½	18½	237½
3	Gull 3	_	1½		2				2½		3½		2		1½		3	16	210½
4	Houdini 4	_	1		1½		1½				1½		3½		3½		3	15½	192
5	Junior 13.3		1½		1		½		2½				1½		2		2	11	151¾
6	Chiron 2		1		½		2		½		2½				2½		2	11	141¾
7	Critter 1.6a		1		1		2½		½		2		1½				2	10½	143¾
8	Protector 1.8b2		0		1½		1		1		2		2		2			9½	124¼

• SB: Sonneborn-Berger score

Stage 4

December 02, 2014 - December 16, 2104. A dodeca round robin (6 x 12) and the openings are chosen randomly per pair so that each engine will play both sides of the same opening against each other.

#	Engine		Komodo		Stockfish		Houdini		Gull	P36	SB
1	Komodo 1331	_			½½0½½½½½½1½1		½½1½½½½½½½1½		1111½½½01½½½	21½	360½
2	Stockfish 301114	_	½½1½½½½½½0½0				½½0½½½½½11½½		½10½0101½10½	18	321½
3	Houdini 4		½½0½½½½½½½0½		½½1½½½½½00½½				0½½0½1½1½½10	16½	302½
4	Gull 3		0000½½½10½½½		½01½1010½01½		1½½1½0½0½½01			16	293

#	Engine		Ko		St		Ho		Gu	P36	SB
1	Komodo 1331	_			6½		7		8	21½	360½
2	Stockfish 301114	_	5½				6½		6	18	321½
3	Houdini 4		5		5½				6	16½	302½
4	Gull 3		4		6		6			16	293

• SB: Sonneborn-Berger score

Superfinal

The Superfinal between Stockfish 141214 and Komodo 1333 was played from December 16 until December 27, 2014 with 32 different openings selected by IM Erik Kislik. Each engine plays both black and white of the same position.

Games		Opening		Results						Points
		ECO	Name	St-Ko	Ko-St		St		Ko	St		Ko
1	2	B32	Sicilian: Lowenthal, Kalashnikov, 6.N1c3 a6 7.Na3 b5	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	1	-	1
3	4	C00	French: Chigorin, 2...c5	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	2	-	2
5	6	A28	English: Four Knights, Nimzowitsch Variation	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	3	-	3
7	8	D85	Grünfeld: Modern Exchange, 8.Be3 O-O 9.Rc1 Qa5 10.Qd2	1-0	1-0		1	-	1	4	-	4
9	10	B14	Caro-Kann: Panov-Botvinnik, 5...e6 6.Nf3 Bb4 7.cxd	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	5	-	5
11	12	C11	French: Steinitz, Boleslavsky Variation	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	6	-	6
13	14	C02	French: Advance, 5.Nf3 Qb6 6.a3 c4	½-½	1-0		½	-	1½	6½	-	7½
15	16	A21	English: King's, 2.Nc3 g6	½-½	1-0		½	-	1½	7	-	9
17	18	E18	Queen's Indian: 7.Nc3 Ne4 8.Bd2 d5 9.cxd5 exd5	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	8	-	10
19	20	B99	Sicilian: Najdorf, Main Line, 10.Bd3 b5 11.Rhe1 Bb7	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	9	-	11
21	22	B40	Sicilian: 2...e6 3.g3	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	10	-	12
23	24	A20	English: King's, 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 d5	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	11	-	13
25	26	B30	Sicilian: 2...Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6	1-0	1-0		1	-	1	12	-	14
27	28	A90	Dutch: 2.c4 Nf6 3.g3 e6 4.Bg2 c6 5.Nf3 d5	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	13	-	15
29	30	E08	Catalan: Closed, 7.Qc2 c6 8.b3 b6 9.Rd1	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	14	-	16
31	32	A48	Neo-King's Indian: London System	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	15	-	17
33	34	E12	Queen's Indian: Petrosian, 6.cxd5 Nxd5 7.e3 g6	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	16	-	18
35	36	A53	Old Indian: 3.Nc3 Nbd7 4.Nf3	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	17	-	19
37	38	C47	Four Knights: Glek, 4...d5	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	18	-	20
39	40	D72	Neo-Grünfeld, 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e4 Nb6 7.Ne2 c5	½-½	1-0		½	-	1½	18½	-	21½
41	42	C88	Spanish: Closed 7...d6	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	19½	-	22½
43	44	A34	English: Symmetrical, Rubinstein System	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	20½	-	23½
45	46	C45	Scotch: Mieses, 8.c4	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	21½	-	24½
47	48	B03	Alekhine: Four Pawns Attack, 7.Be3	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	22½	-	25½
49	50	B46	Sicilian: Taimanov, 5...a6 6.Be3 Nf6	1-0	½-½		1½	-	½	24	-	26
51	52	A50	Indian: Slav-Indian	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	25	-	27
53	54	A18	English: Mikenas, Flohr, 7.d4	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	26	-	28
55	56	D38	QGD: Ragozin, Westphalia Variation	1-0	½-½		1½	-	½	27½	-	28½
57	58	E32	Nimzo-Indian: Classical, 4...O-O 5.a3, 6...b6 7.Bg5 Bb7	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	28½	-	29½
59	60	A11	English: Caro-Kann Defence, 3.g3 Bg4	½-½	1-0		½	-	1½	29	-	31
61	62	D00	Queen's Pawn: Anti-King's Indian	½-½	½-½		1	-	1	30	-	32
63	64	A46	Torre Attack: 3...h6 4.Bh4 g5	½-½	1-0		½	-	1½	30½	-	33½

• Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO)
• List of chess openings - Wikipedia

Selected Games

Stage 2

Stockfish - Jonny, "Craziest Game of the Year 2014" by Chess.com ^[3]

[Event "TCEC Season 7 - Stage 2"]
[Site "http://tcec.chessdom.com"]
[Date "2014.10.29"]
[Round "05"]
[White "Stockfish"]
[Black "Jonny"]
[Result "1-0"]
 
1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e3 Be6 4.Nf3 c6 5.Nbd2 b5 6.a4 Nf6 7.axb5 cxb5 8.b3 c3 9.Bxb5+
Bd7 10.Bxd7+ Nbxd7 11.Nb1 Rc8 12.Qc2 Nd5 13.Ba3 e5 14.Bxf8 Kxf8 15.O-O Nb4 16.Qe4 c2
17.Na3 Nf6 18.Qb7 Nfd5 19.Nxe5 Qc7 20.Qb5 a6 21.Qa4 a5 22.Nb5 c1=Q 23.Raxc1 Qxc1
24.h3 Qc2 25.Nd6 Rb8 26.e4 Nb6 27.Qb5 Qc7 28.Ndxf7 Rg8 29.Qxa5 N6d5 30.Qa1 Nf4 31.d5
Nbd3 32.Qa3+ Qe7 33.d6 Qf6 34.d7+ Qe7 35.Qa5 Nxe5 36.Nxe5 Qd6 37.Kh2 Ng6 38.f4 Ke7
39.Nc4 Qd4 40.f5 Nf8 41.Rf2 Qxf2 42.Qe5+ Kxd7 43.Qxb8 Ke7 44.Qe5+ Kd8 45.Qd5+ Ke7
46.Qxg8 Qf4+ 47.Kg1 Qc1+ 48.Kf2 Qf4+ 49.Ke2 Qxe4+ 50.Ne3 Qe5 51.Kf3 h6 52.b4 Ke8
53.Qd5 Qf6 54.Qe4+ Kf7 55.b5 Nd7 56.Qc4+ Ke8 57.Qc8+ Qd8 58.Qxd8+ Kxd8 59.Ke4 Nf8
60.Kd5 Kc8 1-0

Superfinal

Game 14 of the Superfinal, Komodo 1333 vs. Stockfish 141214, mentioned by Christopher Chabris in The Wall Street Journal ^[4]

[Event "TCEC Season 7 - Superfinal"]
[Site "http://tcec.chessdom.com"]
[Date "2014.12.18"]
[Round "14"]
[White "Komodo 1333"]
[Black "Stockfish 141214"]
[Result "1-0"]
 
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 6.a3 c4 7.Be2 Bd7 8.Nbd2 Na5 9.Rb1 Ne7
10.O-O Qc7 11.Re1 Bc6 12.Nf1 Qd7 13.Qd2 Nb3 14.Qf4 Nxc1 15.Qxc1 Nf5 16.Bd1 g6
17.Bc2 Bh6 18.Qd1 Qe7 19.g3 O-O 20.h4 b5 21.N1h2 a5 22.Ng4 Bg7 23.Qd2 b4 24.Qg5
h6 25.Nf6+ Qxf6 26.Qxf6 Bxf6 27.exf6 Nd6 28.Ne5 Ra6 29.g4 Nb5 30.a4 Nd6 31.Ra1 Rb8
32.Re2 Rab6 33.f4 bxc3 34.bxc3 Ne8 35.g5 h5 36.Nxg6 fxg6 37.Bxg6 Nd6 38.Rxe6 Be8
39.f5 Bf7 40.Re7 Rf8 41.Bxf7+ Rxf7 42.Re6 Rfb7 43.g6 Rb8 44.Re5 Rf8 45.f7+ Nxf7
46.gxf7+ Kxf7 47.Kf2 Rb2+ 48.Kf3 Rc2 49.Rxd5 Rxc3+ 50.Kf4 Rc2 51.Rxa5 Rf2+ 52.Ke3
Rh2 53.Ra7+ Kf6 54.Ra6+ Kf7 55.d5 c3 56.Rb1 Re8+ 57.Re6 Re7 58.a5 c2 59.Rxe7+ Kxe7
60.Rf1 Rh3+ 61.Kd2 Ra3 62.f6+ Kf7 63.Kxc2 Rxa5 64.Rf5 Ra3 65.Rxh5 Kxf6 66.Rh6+ Kg7
67.Re6 Kf7 68.Re4 Ra5 69.Rf4+ Ke8 70.Rf5 Ra3 71.Kd2 Kd7 72.Ke2 Kd6 73.h5 Kc5 74.Kf2
1-0

Forum Posts

• TCEC Season 7 - Main Thread by Martin Thoresen, CCC, September 17, 2014
• OpenChess Forum - TCEC Season 7
• Excellent job by Lyudmil Tsvetkov, CCC, December 15, 2014
• Komodo wins TCEC by Robert Flesher, CCC, December 27, 2014

External Links

• TCEC - Live Computer Chess Broadcast
• TCEC - Thoresen Chess Engines Competition | Facebook
• The New Chess World Champion by Ken Regan, Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP, December 28, 2014 » Larry Kaufman, Komodo
• The Best Chess Of 2014 - Craziest Game of the Year, Stockfish vs. Jonny, Chess.com, December 29, 2014 » Stockfish - Jonny
• The Best Chess Of 2014 - Chess Engine of the Year, Chess.com, December 29, 2014 » Komodo 8
• The Real Kings of Chess Are Computers by Christopher Chabris, The Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2015
• Anatomy of a Computer Chess Game by Christopher Chabris, The Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2015 » on Game 14 of the Superfinal
• Martin Thoresen's World Chess Championship by Christopher Chabris, January 10, 2015

References

1. ^ TCEC Season 7 - Main Thread by Martin Thoresen, CCC, September 17, 2014
2. ^ TCEC - Thoresen Chess Engines Competition, Fotos | Facebook, Poster by Santiago Méndez
3. ^ The Best Chess Of 2014 - Craziest Game of the Year, Stockfish vs. Jonny, Chess.com, December 29, 2014
4. ^ Anatomy of a Computer Chess Game by Christopher Chabris, The Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2015

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