nTCEC Season 1 Stage 3 - 16 cores of chess fun

[Martin Thoresen]

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nTCEC Season 1 – Stage 3 starts Saturday March 30th at 14:00 UTC+1.

Stage 3 is a double Round Robin consisting of 8 chess engines, with a total of 56 games.
Each engine pair will play both sides of the openings, that are chosen by the nTCEC community.

The top 4 will move on to Stage 4, while those finishing 5-8 are out of nTCEC for the current Season.
Stage 4 will start 3-4 days after Stage 3 is finished.

The list of participants for Stage 3, in seed order:
Vitruvius, Komodo, Chiron and Quazar (qualified from Stage 2b)
Houdini, Stockfish, Rybka and Hiarcs (qualified from Stage 2a)

nTCEC is using 150m + 60s per move for the whole game, running on a dual Intel Xeon E5-2689 @ 3300 MHz.
Up to 16 cores can be used for engines capable of SMP.

Read the full nTCEC rules here:
http://www.tcec-chess.net/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=20

The broadcast will be running 24/7 with 1 game at a time, and can be watched here, also with chat:
http://www.tcec-chess.net/live.php
http://www.tcec-chess.net/live_wide.php (widescreen 1920px ++)

Finished games from Stage 3 will be moved here:
http://www.tcec-chess.net/stage_3.php

Read the latest nTCEC news here:
http://www.tcec-chess.net/viewforum.php?f=2

Hope to see everyone there!

Best Regards,
Martin Thoresen

[noctiferus]

Hi, Martin.
A question: in previous stages, I see some (few!) couples of results 1-0, playing the same opening. Don't you think it could mean that the opening variant is probably unbalanced toward one side? Should not be better to delete it from the book, for the further stages?
This is just a patzer's comment, of course...

Anyway, great work! Thx

ciao
Enrico

[gladius]

Looking forward to it!

[Martin Thoresen]

Hi, Martin.
A question: in previous stages, I see some (few!) couples of results 1-0, playing the same opening. Don't you think it could mean that the opening variant is probably unbalanced toward one side? Should not be better to delete it from the book, for the further stages?
This is just a patzer's comment, of course...

Anyway, great work! Thx

ciao
Enrico

Hello Enrico!

As I wrote in my post, the openings are now decided by the nTCEC community.

Each engine pair will play both sides of the openings, that are chosen by the nTCEC community.

[S.Taylor]

Is it written somewhere who plays who, in which order?

[Martin Thoresen]

Is it written somewhere who plays who, in which order?

The schedule will appear on the live page when the first game starts.

[Vinvin]

Hello Martin, what about the Komodo beta version ? Will be there a SMP beta ?

Thanks,
Vincent

[Martin Thoresen]

Hello Martin, what about the Komodo beta version ? Will be there a SMP beta ?

Thanks,
Vincent

Hello Vincent,

Don is having some problems with the Windows compile. I assume this will be fixed so we should hopefully see a Komodo MP.
It will of course be announced in the News section of my forum and on the FB fan page.

[Martin Thoresen]

Now live!

http://www.tcec-chess.net/live.php
http://www.tcec-chess.net/live_wide.php

[ernest]

Now live!
http://www.tcec-chess.net/live.php
http://www.tcec-chess.net/live_wide.php

Hey Martin!

What did you do?

No problem any more with my XP + IE8!!!...

Hope it will last!