nTCEC - Season 1 - Superfinal | Houdini vs Stockfish | 16CPU

[S.Taylor]

I would like to make another observation about chat, which is why chessbomb is much easier, and that is that the ntcec chat keeps dissappearing, so if i make a comment or ask something, and come back an hour later, i can't even find my own comment nor see if someone answered me anything. But with chessbomb, there is no problem as i can still find it all.

[gerold]

I would like to make another observation about chat, which is why chessbomb is much easier, and that is that the ntcec chat keeps dissappearing, so if i make a comment or ask something, and come back an hour later, i can't even find my own comment nor see if someone answered me anything. But with chessbomb, there is no problem as i can still find it all.

I gave up on that one awhile back.

[Martin Thoresen]

The 48th game starts now and with Stockfish at -1 it must win in order to force a set of 4 new games, if it fails then Houdini is the nTCEC Grand Champion!

[S.Taylor]

The 48th game starts now and with Stockfish at -1 it must win in order to force a set of 4 new games, if it fails then Houdini is the nTCEC Grand Champion!

That's a good idea! "Grand Champion".

[Martin Thoresen]

Houdini wins the Superfinal 25-23 and is therefore the nTCEC Grand Champion. Congratulations to Robert Houdart and thanks to everyone following nTCEC. Season 2 will begin in the autumn, about 4 months from now.

[S.Taylor]

Thanks very much, Martin, and congrats to Robert.

What newer engines do we expect to have in the fall/Autumn?

[JuLieN]

Congrats, both to Martin for the tournament and to Robert for his win.

The result was surprisingly narrow: if I'm not mistaken, this final's result places Stockfish only 14 Elo points behind Houdini! Stockfish has made big progress!

[Houdini]

Congrats, both to Martin for the tournament and to Robert for his win.

The result was surprisingly narrow: if I'm not mistaken, this final's result places Stockfish only 14 Elo points behind Houdini! Stockfish has made big progress!

Stockfish played extremely well and made this a very close match.

Over the full tournament the direct confrontation between the 2 engines was +10 -6 =43 or 31.5-27.5 which translates to about +25 Elo with a confidence interval of about 60 Elo (both values rough estimates), in other words +25 ± 60 Elo. Maybe someone can compute more accurate values.

Cheers,
Robert

[jd1]

Congratulations to Robert and to Houdini!

It was an exciting match, thanks to Martin for running the tournament.

Jerry

[ernest]

in other words +25 ± 60 Elo. Maybe someone can compute more accurate values.

With my rule of thumb, I get (95% error bar): +24 ± 47 Elo