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[kranium]

Standings after Day 1 (Rounds 1-3)

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  1 Stockfish 051117  3400   5.5/6
  2 Houdini 6.02      3407   5.0/6
  3 Komodo1959.00b    3398   4.0/6
  4 Fire 6.2          3300   3.5/6
  5 Fizbo 1.9         3262   3.0/6
  6 Andscacs 0.92     3240   3.0/6
  7 Gull 3 syz        3191   2.0/6
  8 Deep Shredder 13  3291   1.5/6
  9 Booot 6.2         3224   1.5/6
 10 Chiron 4          3203   1.0/6

games available here:
https://www.chess.com/article/view/ches ... ampionship

[Ras]

The less the opening moves, the more Andscacs will play on its own way, the happier will be, and probably will lose less games, I hope

At that playing strength, Andsacs even might generate its own opening book. The idea would be that during offline book preparation, Andsacs could invest a lot more thinking time that in the match, therefore coming up with better moves. In the actual match, it would save thinking time for later.

The most crazy idea would be renting some cloud capacity. The cheapest options where capacity is not guaranteed (because it is excess capacity) would do the trick because it doesn't matter whether it takes two weeks continuously or a month with interruptions.

[AdminX]

I think today's episode is about to start.

[styx]

In case of Stockfish finishing within price-money-range: who will get the money?

It is the result of so many authors. Maybe it was already answered, but I couldn't find it.

[kranium]

Standings after Day 2 (Rounds 3-6)

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  1 Stockfish 051117  3400  10.5/12
  2 Houdini 6.02      3407   9.5/12
  3 Komodo1959.00b    3398   9.0/12
  4 Fire 6.2          3300   7.0/12
  5 Deep Shredder 13  3291   5.5/12
  6 Andscacs 0.92     3240   5.0/12
  7 Fizbo 1.9         3262   5.0/12
  8 Booot 6.2         3224   4.0/12
  9 Gull 3 syz        3191   2.5/12
 10 Chiron 4          3203   2.0/12

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[kranium]

In case of Stockfish finishing within price-money-range: who will get the money?

It is the result of so many authors. Maybe it was already answered, but I couldn't find it.

Any prize money that Stockfish might win, will go to the Stockfish team, or a charity of their choice. When the tournament is over, Pete Cilento of chess.com will contact them in regards to this.
If Fire wins any prize money, it will be given out as Chess.com premium memberships via contest, random drawing, or something similar.

[MikeB]

In case of Stockfish finishing within price-money-range: who will get the money?

It is the result of so many authors. Maybe it was already answered, but I couldn't find it.

Any prize money that Stockfish might win, will go to the Stockfish team, or a charity of their choice. When the tournament is over, Pete Cilento of chess.com will contact them in regards to this.
If Fire wins any prize money, it will be given out as Chess.com premium memberships via contest, random drawing, or something similar.

Good tournament Norman! 👊

[Vinvin]

In case of Stockfish finishing within price-money-range: who will get the money?

It is the result of so many authors. Maybe it was already answered, but I couldn't find it.

Some hours of renting the "Amazon Cluster Compute Instances" to help the testing system ( http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests ) would be good !

[AdminX]

Stockfish suffered its first loss of the event.

[pgn][White "Houdini 6.02"]
[Black "Stockfish 051117"]
[ECO "E18"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq -"]
[CurrentPosition "4k1Q1/1n3R2/8/p3P2P/1pp3P1/8/P5K1/8 b - - 3 113"]
[SetUp "1"]
[Result "*"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Be7 6.O-O O-O 7.Nc3 Ne4 8.Re1 Nxc3 9.bxc3 Nc6 10.Nd2 Na5 11.Bxb7 Nxb7 12.e4 c5 13.d5 d6 14.Nf3 Bf6 15.Qd3 Qd7 16.Kg2 Rfe8 17.Bf4 Rad8 18.Rab1 Na5 19.Nd2 e5 20.Be3 Qa4 21.h4 Rf8 22.f3 Ra8 23.Rh1 Rab8 24.g4 Be7 25.Kg3 Rbd8 26.Ra1 Rde8 27.Rhc1 Rb8 28.Rab1 Bd8 29.Qc2 Qd7 30.Rh1 Be7 31.Qd3 Qa4 32.Rb2 Rb7 33.Rc1 Rbb8 34.Rf1 Rb7 35.Rbb1 Rbb8 36.Rfe1 Rbe8 37.Qe2 Qc2 38.Rbc1 Qa4 39.Rh1 Rd8 40.Ra1 Rb8 41.Rab1 Rbe8 42.Rbf1 Qc2 43.Rc1 Qa4 44.Rhe1 Rd8 45.Ra1 Rfe8 46.Rec1 Rf8 47.Rab1 Rc8 48.Qd3 Rb8 49.Rf1 Rbe8 50.Ra1 Bf6 51.Rfb1 Rb8 52.Rh1 Be7 53.Raf1 Rbe8 54.Rc1 Rb8 55.Rhd1 Rbe8 56.Qc2 Qd7 57.Rh1 Ra8 58.Qd3 Qa4 59.Rce1 Rae8 60.Rhg1 Rd8 61.f4 exf4+ 62.Bxf4 Rde8 63.h5 h6 64.Rgf1 Nb7 65.Kh3 Rd8 66.Rg1 Rde8 67.Nf3 f6 68.Nh4 Rf7 69.Rgf1 Bd8 70.Nf5 Rd7 71.Rf2 Kh8 72.Ref1 b5 73.Rb1 b4 74.Re2 Kg8 75.Rbb2 Qa3 76.Rb3 Qa4 77.cxb4 cxb4 78.Qb1 a5 79.Rf3 Kh8 80.Rg3 Kg8 81.Qc1 Kh8 82.Rf3 Kg8 83.Rfe3 Bb6 84.Rg3 Bd8 85.Rf3 Kh8 86.Qd2 Rg8 87.Bg3 Re8 88.Qd4 Kg8 89.Bf4 Kh7 90.Kg2 Kg8 91.Rfe3 Kh8 92.Rf2 Kh7 93.c5 dxc5 94.Qd3 Bb6 95.e5 c4 96.Qb1 Bxe3 97.Nxg7+ Kh8 98.Nxe8 Rg7 99.Nxg7 Bxf4 100.Rxf4 Qd7 101.Qg6 Qxd5+ 102.Kg1 Qd1+ 103.Rf1 Qd4+ 104.Rf2 Qd1+ 105.Kh2 Qd4 106.Qxh6+ Kg8 107.Qxf6 Qd8 108.Qg6 Qh4+ 109.Kg2 Qe7 110.Nf5+ Kf8 111.Nxe7+ Kxe7 112.Rf7+ Ke8 113.Qg8# *[/pgn]

[AdminX]

Which engines have handled the opening phase the best in this non book event?