Chess.com 2018 computer chess championship

[Werewolf]

Shredder 13 - is it just the commercial version? Seems to be doing a bit too well...

It hasn't played any of the top engines yet.

It's still doing pretty well.

Fun fact: the top 5 engines haven't lost a single game yet!

[Vinvin]

Twitch channel to follow the CCCC : https://www.twitch.tv/computerchess

[Paloma]

It's still doing pretty well.

Fun fact: the top 5 engines haven't lost a single game yet!

Shredder will be the first.

[Paloma]

Bingo !

[pgn][Event "CCCC 1: Rapid Rumble (15|5) Stage 1"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2018.09.07"] [Round "?"] [White "Komodo 2118.00"] [Black "Shredder 13"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "3404"] [BlackElo "3112"] [ECO "C41"] [Opening "Philidor"] [TimeControl "900+5"] [Time "22:33:23"] [PlyCount "171"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Be7 6. Bf4 O-O 7. Be2 Re8 8. Qd2 Nc6 9. O-O-O Nxd4 10. Qxd4 Be6 11. f3 a6 12. Bc4 c5 13. Qd3 Bxc4 14. Qxc4 b5 15. Qe2 c4 16. Nd5 Nxd5 17. Rxd5 c3 18. b3 Qa5 19. Kb1 Rac8 20. Be3 Bf8 21. g4 Re5 22. Rhd1 Rxd5 23. Rxd5 Qa3 24. Bc1 Qa5 25. a3 Qc7 26. Qf2 Qd7 27. h4 Qe6 28. Qb6 Rc5 29. Rd3 Qc8 30. Be3 Rc6 31. Qd4 Rc5 32. h5 Qe6 33. Qb4 Rc6 34. Qa5 Qc8 35. Bd4 Be7 36. Rxc3 Rxc3 37. Bxc3 Qc6 38. Bb2 Kf8 39. h6 gxh6 40. Qd2 Bg5 41. Qd4 Ke7 42. f4 Bh4 43. Bc3 Kd7 44. Qg7 Ke8 45. Ba5 Be7 46. Qh8+ Kd7 47. Qxh7 Ke8 48. Bb4 Bf8 49. e5 Qd5 50. Qf5 Qe6 51. Qxe6+ fxe6 52. Bxd6 Bg7 53. Kb2 h5 54. gxh5 Bh6 55. Kc3 Kd7 56. Kb4 Kc6 57. Ka5 Kb7 58. f5 exf5 59. e6 Bd2+ 60. b4 Be3 61. Bc5 Bf4 62. Bb6 Kc6 63. e7 Kd7 64. Bc5 Bg5 65. Kxa6 f4 66. Kxb5 Bxe7 67. Bxe7 Ke6 68. h6 Kxe7 69. h7 f3 70. h8=Q f2 71. Qe5+ Kf7 72. Qf4+ Ke7 73. Qe4+ Kf6 74. Qf3+ Ke5 75. Qe2+ Kd4 76. Qc4+ Ke3 77. Qf1 Kd2 78. c4 Kc3 79. c5 Kd4 80. c6 Ke5 81. c7 Kf6 82. c8=Q Kf7 83. Qfc4+ Kf6 84. Q8e6+ Kg7 85. Qg8+ Kh6 86. Qh4# 1-0[/pgn]

[Nay Lin Tun]

It's still doing pretty well.

Fun fact: the top 5 engines haven't lost a single game yet!

Shredder will be the first.

Komodo will be second!
Houdini will be third!
Leela will be fourth!
Stockfish will be the last!!

[AdminX]

Houdini!

[tomitank]

Hi!

Will there be new Houdini in the near future?

-Tamás

[Werewolf]

Hi!

Will there be new Houdini in the near future?

-Tamás

It's usually out in the Sept - Nov time frame, so perhaps.

However, I asked a question to Robert a few months ago and unusually didn't get a reply.

[Nay Lin Tun]

Houdini!

Ted, we are guessing who will lose his first blood! (top 4 haven't lose any game yet)

[Nay Lin Tun]

In September 3, 2018, chess.com will be hosting their computer chess championship for this year. There are a lot of background factors that favor Leela to be able to fight for No 1 vs the best AB engine , Stockfish. Of course, if you recently saw Leela performance in TCEC Division 3, this post will be a big joke( But in bonus games, she draw all 9 games vs Stockfish 8 and Ethereal).

Improvement factors/favoring factors for Leela,

1. 4x V 100 for Leela vs 48 cores ( GPU/CPU ratio will be 3.6 times in favor for Leela than TCEC, approximately + 90 elo)
2. Newer ID are already stronger than 520 (at least +50 elo)
3. Leela will have Tablebase support (possibly +20 elo)

As latest version of stockfish is only 100 elo stronger than stockfish 8, Leela will be in more favour if she can effectively use 4x V100 and Tablebases.

https://www.chess.com/computer-chess-championship

Quoting my prediction, I predicted that Leela would be as strong as stockfish, fighting for No. 1. However, after playing half of the tournment, we can quite confidently predict that she will likely end as No. 4. ( Performance of all those big 4 engines would probably be within 100 elo gap).

I tested only against full strength 4 core Dev SF vs Leela 1060 GTX on my PC. I expected that if she can play as strong as stockfish in cccc ( due to hardware boost) , she will likely get the same score as stockfish. I did not expect she will throw away many winning endgames like that..

My prediction was not very accurate, but still decent.