Komodo in TCEC8 stage 3?

[mjlef]

We've made faster progress than expected. We said to expect at least quarterly updates, but every two months is looking more realistic now.

Congratulations, not at all easy to improve an engine at this level.

It indeed seems to be taking a long time, to be seeing much improved results in games.

I would have liked to have seen Rybka 4.1 in this tcec season 8. I think that Rybka 4.1 must now just about have been clearly overtaken, but this has been out many years already, since last update. And maybe Rybka still offers tough resistance (I'm talking of long time control games).

However, Komodo seems to still be well below SF playing level, in this recent tcec stage 3, as sf is about 1.5 point more than shown, if not for the clock issue. And the clock issue is nothing to do with chess.

There are too few games to say much about strength, but since Komodo finished 2 point ahead of everyone else in Stage 2, it helps offset the 1.5 points from the buggy version of Stockfish.