A new Championship

[Mark Tang]

I'm here to announce a brand-new annual championship in April or May since this year. It may have the best hardware condition ever in computer chess history. It will run on a cloud calculation platform in a university lab(About 2000 Cores, 16 V100 GPUs, The storage capacity reaches 400TB!!!) Due to its high running cost, the event will be held once a year.
Initially I plan to have a 8 top engines tournament, but considering it's a great oppoturnity to discover the supreme wisdom of chess, I change my idea to run a 16 top engines race in first season (one of them is my own programmed private engine that has never provided to others, and I will test its strength via this event). So any top engine authors want to participate this new championship, send me your engine's name and the exe file(best is avx2) that can directly run on GUI on Talkchess forum Private Message or my email (The deadline of submitting is April 10th).
Event format(quite like FRC in TCEC): The participating engines will be randomly divided into 4 Groups and play a number of round robins(10min+5sec). The top 2 engines in each group advance to the two groups of Semileagues(20min+5sec). The top 2 engines in each Semileague advance to the Final League(30min+10sec). The top 2 engines of the Final League advance to the Final(1h+10sec).
Though it's a private event, I will post the process of this tournament regularly and send some of the great games I've thought on this topic page.
Wish everyone would enjoy this great competition. Hope you can enjoy.

[Mark Tang]

As the deadline comes, the final 16 engines are here.According to random drawing lots, the four groups are:
Group A: Reckless, Halogen, Tarnished, Quanticade
Group B: Stockfish, Dragon, Pawnocchio, Integral
Group C: Obsidian, Alexandria, Berserk, Clover
Group D: Plentychess, Viridithas, Caissa, Aether(engine developed by our team)
As scheduled, the group stage begins from now (10min+5sec for 5 rounds). Game results and brilliant games will be shown on this page.

[Mark Tang]

Group A results:
Player Score Reckless Halogen Tarnished Quanticade
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1: Reckless 16.5 / 30 XXXXXXXXXX =======1== 1==01===== ==1======= (+4 -1 =25)
2: Halogen 14.5 / 30 =======0== XXXXXXXXXX ========== 1==010==== (+2 -3 =25)
3: Tarnished 14.5 / 30 0==10===== ========== XXXXXXXXXX ========== (+1 -2 =27)
4: Quanticade 14.5 / 30 ==0======= 0==101==== ========== XXXXXXXXXX (+2 -3 =25)

[Mark Tang]

Brilliant game: Reckless-Tarnished (1-0) Opening:[King's Indian: Sämisch, Orthodox, Bronstein, 9.Bf2]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 O-O 6.Be3 e5 7.d5 Nh5 8.Qd2 Qh4+ 9.Bf2 Qe7 10.O-O-O f5 11.exf5 gxf5 12.Nh3 Nd7 13.Rg1 Nc5 14.Re1 b6 15.b4 Nb7 16.Bd3 a5 17.b5 Nf6 18.Bc2 Kh8 19.Bh4 Qe8 20.Ng5 Qh5 21.Bf2 Nc5 22.h3 Bh6 23.h4 Bd7 24.Ne2 Rae8 25.Be3 Re7 26.Ref1 Qxh4 27.Rh1 Qxc4 28.Rxh6 Bxb5 29.Bxc5 bxc5 30.Ne6 Rff7 31.Rfh1 Nxd5 32.R1h4 Qxe2 33.Qxd5 Qxg2 34.a4 Be2 35.Rh3 c4 36.Kb2 Bd3 37.Rh2 Qg8 38.Bxd3 Qb8+ 39.Kc2 cxd3+ 40.Qxd3 Qe8 41.Qb3 c6 42.Qc4 Qg8 43.Qd3 Rd7 44.Kb2 Rb7+ 45.Ka2 Rbd7 46.Ka3 Qg1 47.Rh1 Qa7 48.Rc1 Qb8 49.Rb1 Rb7 50.Rxb7 Qxb7 51.Qxd6 Qe7 52.Nd8 Qxd6+ 53.Rxd6 Re7 54.Nxc6 Re8 55.Nxa5 e4 56.f4 e3 57.Rd1 Re4 58.Re1 Kg8 59.Kb3 Rxf4 60.Nc4 h5 61.a5 Rg4 62.Nxe3 Re4 63.Nc2 Rg4 64.a6 Kh7 65.Re7+ Kh6 66.Ne3 Rg3 67.a7 f4 68.a8=Q Rxe3+ 69.Rxe3 fxe3 70.Qe4 e2 71.Qxe2 1-0

[Bart Weststrate]

Brilliant game: [Reckless-Tarnished (1-0) Opening:[King's Indian: Sämisch, Orthodox, Bronstein, 9.Bf2]
[pgn][Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 O-O 6.Be3 e5 7.d5 Nh5 8.Qd2 Qh4+
9.Bf2 Qe7 10.O-O-O f5 11.exf5 gxf5 12.Nh3 Nd7 13.Rg1 Nc5 14.Re1 b6 15.b4
Nb7 16.Bd3 a5 17.b5 Nf6 18.Bc2 Kh8 19.Bh4 Qe8 20.Ng5 Qh5 21.Bf2 Nc5 22.h3
Bh6 23.h4 Bd7 24.Ne2 Rae8 25.Be3 Re7 26.Ref1 Qxh4 27.Rh1 Qxc4 28.Rxh6 Bxb5
29.Bxc5 bxc5 30.Ne6 Rff7 31.Rfh1 Nxd5 32.R1h4 Qxe2 33.Qxd5 Qxg2 34.a4 Be2
35.Rh3 c4 36.Kb2 Bd3 37.Rh2 Qg8 38.Bxd3 Qb8+ 39.Kc2 cxd3+ 40.Qxd3 Qe8 41.
Qb3 c6 42.Qc4 Qg8 43.Qd3 Rd7 44.Kb2 Rb7+ 45.Ka2 Rbd7 46.Ka3 Qg1 47.Rh1 Qa7
48.Rc1 Qb8 49.Rb1 Rb7 50.Rxb7 Qxb7 51.Qxd6 Qe7 52.Nd8 Qxd6+ 53.Rxd6 Re7
54.Nxc6 Re8 55.Nxa5 e4 56.f4 e3 57.Rd1 Re4 58.Re1 Kg8 59.Kb3 Rxf4 60.Nc4
h5 61.a5 Rg4 62.Nxe3 Re4 63.Nc2 Rg4 64.a6 Kh7 65.Re7+ Kh6 66.Ne3 Rg3 67.a7
f4 68.a8=Q Rxe3+ 69.Rxe3 fxe3 70.Qe4 e2 71.Qxe2 1-0
[/pgn]

You could try to make it a playable game by posting a correct pgn thanks. And maybe some analysis / scores / depth after a move.

[Mark Tang]

Tarnished wins the Group A tiebreaks and enters into semifinal.
As Integral can't run on PC, so I selected Koivisto, an engine gradually fading out of people's sight, to be substitution.
As the game results, it seems like the development of chess engines is rapid in recent years.(Koivisto is completely smashed)

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Group B results:    
Player               Score        Stockfish      Pawnocchio Dragon         Koivisto  
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 1: Stockfish      18.5 / 30   XXXXXXXXXX ========== ====1===== 1=1=1=111=  (+7 -0 =23)
 2: Pawnocchio  18.0 / 30   ========== XXXXXXXXXX ========1= 1=1=1=1=1=  (+6 -0 =24)
 3: Dragon         16.0 / 30   ====0===== ========0= XXXXXXXXXX 1=1=1=1===  (+4 -2 =24)
 4: Koivisto        7.5 / 30    0=0=0=000= 0=0=0=0=0= 0=0=0=0=== XXXXXXXXXX  (+0 -15 =15)
 

[Mark Tang]

Brilliant game: Pawnocchio-Koivisto (1-0) Opening:[Neo-Old Indian: 2.c4 e5 3.Nf3 e4]
[pgn]
[White "Pawnocchio"]
[Black "Koivisto"]
[Result "1-0"]
1.d4 d6 2.c4 e5 3.Nf3 e4 4.Ng5 f5 5.Nc3 h6 6.Nh3 g5 7.Ng1 Be6 8.e3 Nd7 9.h4 g4 10.b3 Ngf6 11.Nge2 d5 12.Nf4 Bf7 13.g3 c6 14.a4 Bb4 15.Bd2 Qe7 16.Be2 O-O 17.O-O Bd6 18.cxd5 cxd5 19.Nb5 Bxf4 20.exf4 Rfc8 21.Na3 Qd8 22.Nc2 Be6 23.Ne3 Qb6 24.Ra2 Qxd4 25.Nc2 Qb6 26.Qa1 Ne8 27.Nd4 Qd6 28.Rd1 Qe7 29.a5 Ndf6 30.Be3 Kh7 31.Rad2 h5 32.Nc2 Kg6 33.b4 Nd7 34.Bd4 Rc7 35.Qb1 Qd6 36.Ne3 Qe7 37.Ba1 Nef6 38.Be5 Rcc8 39.a6 bxa6 40.Bxa6 Rf8 41.Rc2 Nxe5 42.fxe5 Ne8 43.Rc6 Kg7 44.Nxd5 Bxd5 45.Rxd5 Rd8 46.Rxd8 Qxd8 47.Qc1 f4 48.gxf4 Qd4 49.Qe3 Qd5 50.Rc5 Qd1+ 51.Bf1 Qf3 52.Rc8 Qxf4 53.Qxf4 Rxf4 54.Rxe8 Kf7 55.Rh8 e3 56.fxe3 Rxb4 57.Rxh5 a5 58.e6+ Kxe6 59.Rxa5 Re4 60.Ra3 g3 61.h5 Rh4 62.h6 Kd6 63.Bd3 Kc5 64.h7 Kb4 65.Ra8 Kc3 66.h8=Q+
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[Mark Tang]

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Group C results:
    Player                Score     Obsidian   Alexandria Berserk    Clover
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 1: Obsidian            15.5 / 30   XXXXXXXXXX ======1=== ========== ==========  (+1 -0 =29)
 2: Alexandria          15.5 / 30   ======0=== XXXXXXXXXX ====1===== 1=========  (+2 -1 =27)
 3: Berserk             15.0 / 30   ========== ====0===== XXXXXXXXXX ======1===  (+1 -1 =28)
 4: Clover              13.5 / 30   ========== 0========= ======0=== XXXXXXXXXX  (+0 -2 =27) 

[Jouni]

So are games running with 2000 cores? If then You need cluster Stockfish!

[Mark Tang]

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Group D results:
    Player                Score     PlentychessAether     Caissa     Viridithas
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 1: Plentychess         16.5 / 30   XXXXXXXXXX ==11====== ========== =1========  (+3 -0 =27)
 2: Aether              15.0 / 30   ==00====== XXXXXXXXXX ====1===== =======1==  (+2 -2 =26)
 3: Caissa              15.0 / 30   ========== ====0===== XXXXXXXXXX ======1===  (+1 -1 =28)
 4: Viridithas          13.5 / 30   =0======== =======0== ======0=== XXXXXXXXXX  (+0 -3 =27)