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In computer chess, a chess engine is a computer program that analyses chess positions and makes decisions on the best chess moves.[1]
The chess engine decides what moves to make, but typically does not interact directly with the user. Most chess engines do not have their own graphical user interface (GUI) but are rather console applications that communicate with a GUI such as XBoard, WinBoardor glChess via a standard protocol. This allows the user to play against multiple engines without learning a new user interface for each, and allows different engines to play against each other.
Thoresen Chess Engines Competition
horesen Chess Engines Competition or TCEC or nTCEC is a computer chess tournament organized, directed and hosted by Martin Thoresen. It was started in 2010. After a short break in 2012,[1] TCEC was restarted in early 2013 (as nTCEC)[2] and is currently active (renamed as TCEC in early 2014) with all-day live broadcasts of chess matches on its website. TCEC is often regarded as the Unofficial World Computer Chess Championshipbecause of its strong participant line-up and long time control matches on high-end hardware, giving rise to very high-class chess.[3][4] Supported by original engine authors and based on voluntarism and donation, it caused a furor in February 2011, when the free version of Houdini defeated reigning computer chess champion Rybka in a 40-game match.[5][6][7] The current season of TCEC is sponsored by Chessdom Arena.[8][9]
Overview[edit]
The TCEC competition is divided into Seasons, where each Season happens over a course of a few weeks, with matches played round-the-clock and broadcast live over the internet. Each season is divided into 4 qualifying stages and 1 Superfinal, where the top twochess engines battle it out over a series of 64 games to win the title of TCEC Grand Champion.
The time control in all events is 120+30 (120 minutes + 30 seconds added per move for the whole game) and pondering is set to
off. The Opening Book is taken from recent strong human Grandmaster tournaments, is truncated to the first 6 or 8 moves, and is changed in every Stage. Engines are allowed updates between stages, unless there is a critical play-limiting bug, in which case the engine are allowed to be updated once during the stage. TCEC generates its own elo rating list from the matches played during the tournament. An initial rating is given to any new participant based on its rating in other chess engine rating lists.
There is no definite criteria for entering into the competition, other than inviting the top participants from various rating lists. The list of participants is personally chosen by Thoresen before the start of any new season. Usually chess engines that supportmultiprocessor mode are preferred (8-cores or higher). Both Winboard and UCI engines are supported. Large pages are disabled but access to various endgame tablebases is permitted.
| Stage | General Information1 |
|---|---|
| Stage 1 | Stage 1 is divided into 3 groups which consists of 12 engines each. Each group format is a single round robin. The top 5 from each group and the best number 6 move on to Stage 2, while the rest are out of TCEC for the current Season. |
| Stage 2 | Stage 2 consists of the 16 engines that qualified from Stage 1. It is a single round robin. The top 8 move on to Stage 3. |
| Stage 3 | Stage 3 consists of the 8 engines that qualified from Stage 2. The format for Stage 3 is a quad round robin so that each engine plays both sides of the same opening against each other, twice. The top 4 move on to Stage 4. |
| Stage 4 | Stage 4 consists of the 4 engines that qualified from Stage 3. It is a hexadeca round robin and the openings are chosen randomly per pair so that each engine plays both sides of the same opening against each other. The top 2 qualify to play the Superfinal. |
| Superfinal | After Stage 4 has finished, the top 2 engines meet in a Superfinal of 64 games. This match is played with 32 different openings so that each engine plays both black and white of the same position. The match is presented with opening 1 used in games 1 and 2, then opening 2 used in games 3 and 4 etc. If the match is theoretically won for one side before game 64, the match continues until all 64 games have been played. In the case of a drawn match there is a rapid match of 16 games with a time control of 25' + 10" with random openings selected from earlier in the same Season. In case it is still tied there is a Blitz match of 8 games with a time control of 3" + 2'. When the Superfinal is over, the current Season ends. |
- 1 Rules may differ from season to season
GUI adjudication rule[edit]
A game can be drawn by Threefold repetition or Fifty-move rule. However, a game can also be drawn at move 40 or later if the eval from both playing engines are within +0.05 to -0.05 pawns for the last five moves, or ten plies. If there is a pawn advance, or a capture by any kind, this special draw rule resets and starts over. On the website, this rule shows as "Distance in plies to TCEC draw rule". It adjudicates as won for one side if both playing engines have an eval of at least 6.50 pawns (or -6.50 in case of a black win) for four consecutive moves, or eight plies - this rule is in effect as soon as the game starts. On the website, this rule shows as "Distance in plies to TCEC win rule". The GUI also adjudicates tablebase endgame positions (with 5-men or less) automatically.
Technical specifications[edit]
The TCEC Computer: CPUs: 2 x 8 core Intel Xeon E5-2689 @ 3300 MHz CPU Coolers: 2 x Corsair H80i Motherboard: Asus Z9PE-D8 WS RAM: 64 GB Kingston KVR16R11D4K4/32 Reg/ECC PSU: Corsair AX 760 SSDs: 2 x Samsung 840 Pro 128 GB @ Raid 0 Case: Silverstone Raven RV03B-WA
Configuration: Graphical User Interface (GUI): cutechess-cli (custom) Protocol: Winboard, UCI Large Pages: OFF Number of Cores/Threads (per engine): 8 or 16 Split Depth: DEFAULT Main Hash Size: 16 GB (Maximum) Minor Hash Size: 1 GB Engine Opening Book: OFF Endgame Tablebases: 6-men Syzygy, 5-men Nalimov, 5-men Gaviota (cp2), 5-men Shredderbases and 5-men Robbobases (Totalbases + Triplebases) supported Tablebase Cache: 1024 MB (Maximum) Ponder/Permanent Brain: OFF Contempt/Draw Score: DEFAULT
Tournament results[edit]
| Season | Date | Winner | Runner-Up |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCEC Season 1 | Dec 2010 – Feb 2011 | Houdini 1.5a [6] | Rybka 4.0 |
| TCEC Season 2 | Feb 2011 – Apr 2011 | Houdini 1.5a | Rybka 4.1 |
| TCEC Season 3 | Apr 2011 – May 2011 | N/A (season not completed) | |
| TCEC Season 41 | Jan 2013 – May 2013 | Houdini 3 | Stockfish 250413 |
| TCEC Season 52 | Aug 2013 – Dec 2013 | Komodo 1142 | Stockfish 191113 |
| TCEC Season 6 | Feb 2014 – May 2014 | Stockfish 170514 | Komodo 7x |
- 1 Originally named "nTCEC Season 1"
- 2 Originally named "nTCEC Season 2"
Internet Computer Chess Tournament
.The Internet Computer Chess Tournament (abbreviated CCT) has been held annually since 2000 on the Internet Chess Club. Unlike other computer chess competitions, there are no travel requirements so there is usually broad participation. The main requirements are that you are a primary author of the entered program and your program can connect and play on the chess server so that the tournament can be fully automated. Tournament format is a Swiss system varying between seven and nine rounds. Time controls used since CCT7 have been 50 minutes with a 3 second increment. The tournament is structured to be completed within a single weekend. The CCT12 (2010) was held on FICS.[1]| Event # | Year | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2000 | Crafty |
| 2 | 2000 | Shredder |
| 3 | 2001 | Fritz, Ferret |
| 4 | 2002 | Junior |
| 5 | 2003 | Ruffian |
| 6 | 2004 | Crafty |
| 7 | 2005 | Zappa |
| 8 | 2006 | Rybka |
| 9 | 2007 | Rybka |
| 10 | 2008 | Rybka, Naum |
| 11 | 2009 | Rybka |
| 12 | 2010 | Sjeng |
| 13 | 2011 | Sjeng |
| 14 | 2012 | Chiron |
| 15 | 2013 | KomodoX |
Computer Chess Tournaments Overview
August 11 2002
http://www.vrichey.de/overview/
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| Tournament | Place | Date | Winner | Country | ||||
| 20th | WMCC 2004 | Tel Aviv | Junior |  | |||||
| 6th | CCT Internet 2004 | ICC Chess server | January 31, February 1 | Crafty |  | ||||
| 19th | WMCC 2003 | Graz | Shredder |  | |||||
| 5th | CCT Internet 2003 | ICC Chess server | January 18 - 19 | Ruffian |  | ||||
| 10th | WCCC 2002 | Maastricht | July 06 - 11 | Junior | | ||||
| 2nd | CSVN Tournament 2002 | Leiden | May 31 - June 02 | Fritz |  | ||||
| 6th | Aufsess 2002 | Aufsess | March 12 - 17 | Junior | | ||||
| 11th | IPCCC 2002 | Paderborn | January 27 - February 3 | Shredder | | ||||
| 4th | CCT Internet 2002 | ICC Chess server | January 19 - 20, 26 - 27 | Junior | | ||||
| 1st | CSVN Tournament 2001 | Leiden | May 18 - 20 | Fritz | | ||||
| 1st | Emanuel-Lasker CCT 2001 | Berlin | September 29 - Oktober 03 | Gambit Tiger |  | ||||
| 18th | WMCC 2001 | Maastricht | August 18 - 23 |
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| 3rd | CCT Internet 2001 | ICC Chess server | May 26 - 27 |
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| 10th | IPCCC 2001 | Paderborn | February 20 - 25 | Shredder | | ||||
| 2nd | CCT Internet 2000 | ICC Chess server | November 4 - 5 | Shredder | | ||||
| 17th | WMCC 2000 | London | August 21 - 25 | Shredder | | ||||
| 9th | IPCCC 2000 | Paderborn | February 9 - 13 | Shredder | | ||||
| 1st | CCT Internet 2000 | ICC Chess server | January 29 - February 6 | Crafty | | ||||
| 9th 16th | WCCC 1999 WMCC 1999 | Paderborn | June 14 - 20 | Shredder | | ||||
| 8th | IPCCC 1999 | Paderborn | February 3 - 7 | P.CoNerS | | ||||
| 7th | IPCCC 1998 | Paderborn | February 11 - 15 | Nimzo |  | ||||
| 17th | Dutch Open CCT 1997 | Alphen an den Rhin, Ned | November 22 - 23, 29 - 30 | Nimzo | | ||||
| 15th | WMCC 1997 | Paris | October 26 - November 2 | Junior | | ||||
| 6th | IPCCC 1997 | Paderborn | February 19 - 23 | Zugzwang | | ||||
| 16th | Dutch Open CCT 1996 | Leiden | November 9 -17 | Cilkchess | | ||||
| 14th | WMCC 1996 | Jakarta, Indonesia | October 8 - 15 | Shredder | | ||||
| 15th | Dutch Open CCT 1995 | Leiden | November 4 - 5, 11 - 12 | The King | | ||||
| 13th | WMCC 1995 | Paderborn | October 8 - 15 | MChess Pro 5.0 | | ||||
| 8th | WCCC 1995 | Hong Kong | May 25 - 30 | Fritz | | ||||
| 12th | WMCC 1993 | Munich | October 31 - November 4 | Hiarcs |  |
International Paderborn Computer Chess Championship
The International Paderborn Computer Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament for computer chess programs. It is organised yearly by the University of Paderborn. The first edition was played in 1991, the fifth edition is 1995 was also the 13th edition of the World Microcomputer Chess Championship.
Champions[edit]
# Year Program Champion 1 1991 Zugzwang Rainer Feldmann, Peter Mysliwietz, Heiner Matthias 2 1992 Zugzwang Rainer Feldmann, Peter Mysliwietz, Heiner Matthias 3 1993 Bobby Hans-Joachim Kraas, Günther Schrüfer 4 1994 Schach 3.0 Matthias Engelbach, Thomas Kreitmair 5 1995 MChess Pro 5.0 Martin Hirsch 6 1997 Zugzwang Rainer Feldmann, Peter Mysliwietz, Heiner Matthias 7 1998 Nimzo98 Christian Donninger 8 1999 P.ConNerS Ulf Lorenz 9 2000 Shredder Stefan Meyer-Kahlen 10 2001 Shredder Stefan Meyer-Kahlen 11 2002 Shredder Stefan Meyer-Kahlen 12 2003 Fritz Frans Morsch, Mathias Feist 13 2004 Hydra Christian Donninger, Alex Kure, Ulf Lorenz 14 2005 Hydra Christian Donninger, Alex Kure, Ulf Lorenz 15 2005 Rybka Vasik Rajlich 16 2006 Rybka Vasik Rajlich 17 2007 HIARCS Mark Uniacke References[edit]
- Complete results and crosstables the CSVN: [1]
- Reports from Chessbase: 2002, 2003 and 2004
- Results from TWIC: 2003, 2006
- Program info from the ICGA: [2]
- Official homepage [3][dead link]
North American Computer Chess Championship
The North American Computer Chess Championship was a computer chess championship held from 1970 to 1994. It was organised by the Association for Computing Machinery and by Dr. Monty Newborn, Professor of Computer Science at McGill University.[1] It was one of the first computer chess tournaments. The 14th NACCC was also the World Computer Chess Championship.
| Event # | Year | Location | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1970 | New York, NY | Chess 3.0 |
| 2 | 1971 | Chicago | Chess 3.0 |
| 3 | 1972 | Boston | Chess 3.0 |
| 4 | 1973 | Atlanta | Chess 3.5 |
| 5 | 1974 | San Diego | Ribbit |
| 6 | 1975 | Minneapolis | Chess 4.4 |
| 7 | 1976 | Houston | Chess 4.5 |
| 8 | 1977 | Seattle | Chess 4.6 |
| 9 | 1978 | Washington, D.C. | Belle |
| 10 | 1979 | Detroit | Chess 4.9 |
| 11 | 1980 | Nashville | Belle |
| 12 | 1981 | Los Angeles | Belle |
| 13 | 1982 | Dallas | Belle |
| 14 | 1983 | New York, NY | Cray Blitz |
| 15 | 1984 | San Francisco | Cray Blitz |
| 16 | 1985 | Denver | HiTech |
| 17 | 1986 | Dallas | Belle |
| 18 | 1987 | Dallas | ChipTest-M |
| 19 | 1988 | Orlando, Florida | Deep Thought |
| 20 | 1989 | Reno, Nevada | HiTech and Deep Thought |
| 21 | 1990 | Deep Thought | |
| 22 | 1991 | Albuquerque | Deep Thought II |
| 23 | 1993 | Indianapolis | Socrates II |
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ Dr. Monty Newborn's homepage at McGill University
References[edit]
ACM COMPUTER CHESS by Bill Wall
World Computer Chess Championship
World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) is an annual event where computer chess engines compete against each other. The event is organized by the International Computer Games Association. It is often held in conjunction with the Computer Olympiad, a collection of computer tournaments for other board games.
Championship results[edit]
The WCCC is open to all types of computers including microprocessors, supercomputers, clusters, and dedicated chess hardware.
In 2007, the reigning champion Junior declined to defend its title.
For the 2009 edition, the rules were changed to limit platforms to commodity hardware supporting at most eight cores,[1] thereby excluding supercomputers and large clusters. Thereafter, a parallel Software Championship was held instead, and unlimited hardware is still allowed in the championship proper.
| Event # | Year | Location | Participants | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1974 | Stockholm | 13 | Kaissa |
| 2 | 1977 | Toronto | 16 | Chess 4.6[2] |
| 3 | 1980 | Linz | 18 | Belle |
| 4 | 1983 | New York | 22 | Cray Blitz |
| 5 | 1986 | Cologne | 22 | Cray Blitz |
| 6 | 1989 | Edmonton | 24 | Deep Thought |
| 7 | 1992 | Madrid | 22 | ChessMachine (Gideon) |
| 8 | 1995 | Hong Kong | 24 | Fritz |
| 9 | 1999 | Paderborn | 30 | Shredder |
| 10 | 2002 | Maastricht | 18 | Deep Junior |
| 11 | 2003 | Graz | 16 | Shredder |
| 12 | 2004 | Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan | 14 | Deep Junior |
| 13 | 2005 | Reykjavík | 12 | Zappa |
| 14 | 2006 | Torino | 18 | Junior |
| 15 | 2007 | Amsterdam | 12 | Zappa[wccc 1] |
| 16 | 2008 | Beijing | 10 | HIARCS[wccc 1] |
| 17 | 2009 | Pamplona | 10 | Junior, Shredder, Sjeng[wccc 1] |
| 18 | 2010 | Kanazawa | 10 | Rondo, Thinker[wccc 1] |
| 19 | 2011 | Tilburg | 9 | Junior |
| 20 | 2013 | Yokohama | 6 | Junior |
- ^ a b c d Although Rybka placed first at the WCCC from 2007 to 2010, the ICGA disqualified Rybka in a controversal decision.
World Microcomputer Chess Championship[edit]
From 1980 to 2001, there was a separate cycle of championships limited to programs running on microprocessors. Up until 1991, the winners were dedicated units. Thereafter, winners were running on state-of-the-art personal computers. The event was also run by the ICGA.
At the 14th WMCCC in Jakarta, the Israeli team Junior was denied entry to Indonesia and some other teams dropped out in protest.
The 16th WMCCC was the same as the 9th WCCC above.
| Event # | Year | Location | Participants | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1980 | London | 12 | Fidelity Chess Challenger |
| 2 | 1981 | Travemünde | 8 | Fidelity X |
| 3 | 1983 | Budapest | 15 | Fidelity Elite A/S |
| 4 | 1984 | Glasgow | 12 | Fidelity Elite X, Mephisto, Princhess X, Psion |
| 5 | 1985 | Amsterdam | 6 / 5 | Mephisto / Nona |
| 6 | 1986 | Dallas | 6 | Mephisto |
| 7 | 1987 | Rome | 2 / 7 | Mephisto / Psion |
| 8 | 1988 | Almería | 2 / 7 | Mephisto |
| 9 | 1989 | Portorož | 9 | Mephisto |
| 10 | 1990 | Lyon | 12 | Mephisto |
| 11 | 1991 | Vancouver, Canada | 15 | ChessMachine (Gideon) |
| 12 | 1993 | Munich | 28 | HIARCS |
| 13 | 1995 | Paderborn, Germany | 33 | MChess Pro 5.0 |
| 14 | 1996 | Jakarta | 27 | Shredder |
| 15 | 1997 | Paris | 34 | Junior |
| 16 | 1999 | Paderborn, Germany | 30 | Shredder |
| 17 | 2000 | London | 14 | Shredder |
| 18 | 2001 | Maastricht | 18 | Deep Junior |
World Chess Software Championship[edit]
From 2010 a new tournament was introduced and held at the same location and during the same period as the World Computer Chess Championship. The rules for the World Chess Software Championship state that competing programs must run on machines with identical hardware specifications. Time control is game in 45 minutes with 15 second increment.[3][4]
| Event # | Year | Location | Participants | Winner | Hardware |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2010 | Kanazawa | 9 | Shredder[5] | Intel quad core Xeon 2.66 GHz, 8MB Hash |
| 2 | 2011 | Tilburg | 5 | HIARCS | Intel Core2 Duo, 1.7 GHz, 2MB Hash |
| 3 | 2013 | Yokohama | 6 | HIARCS | Intel quad core i7, 2.7 GHz, 16MB Hash |
Due to the requirement to be present on-site, and strict rules of originality, many strong programs refrain from participating in the ICGA events. As the conditions of the software championship can easily be emulated by anyone with a high-end PC, there are now privately conducted tournaments that have much broader attendence, as well as a larger number of games to reduce the influence of luck. Especially Thoresen Chess Engines Competition[6] is more prestigious than the WCSC.
See also[edit]
- Chess engine
- Computer chess
- World Computer Speed Chess Championship
- North American Computer Chess Championship
- Dutch open computer chess championship
- TCEC Computer Chess Championship
References[edit]
- All results of the WMCCC and WCCC on the official ICGA web site
- ^ Clarification of the 8-cores rule for the WCCC
- ^ Jennings, Peter (January 1978). "The Second World Computer Chess Championships". BYTE. p. 108. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
- ^ Article on the World Chess Software Championship
- ^ HIARCS announcement of new tournament
- ^ ChessCentral report on 2010 World Chess Software Championship
- ^ [1]
External links[edit]
- The Rybka Forum
- Official website of the ICGA
- Kanazawa - WCCC 2010
- Pamplona - WCCC 2009
- Beijing - WCCC 2008
- Amsterdam - WCCC 2007
- Torino - WCCC 2006
- Play through the 2006 WCCC games
- Reykjavik - WCCC 2005
- Bar-Ilan University - WCCC 2004
- Graz - WCCC 2003
Ratings[edit]
Chess engine rating lists aim to provide statistically significant measures of relative engine strength. These lists play multiple games between engines on standard hardware platforms, so that processor differences are factored out. Some also standardize the opening books, in an attempt to measure the strength differences of the engines only. These lists not only provide a ranking, but also margins of error on the given ratings. Also rating lists typically play games continuously, publishing many updates per year, compared to tournaments which only take place annually.
There are a number of factors that vary among the chess engine rating lists:
- Time control. Longer time controls, such as 40 moves in 120 minutes, are better suited for determining tournament play strength, but also make testing more time-consuming.
- Hardware used. Faster hardware with more memory leads to stronger play.
- 64-bit (vs. 32-bit) hardware and operating systems favor bitboard-based programs
- Multiprocessor vs. single processor hardware.
- Ponder settings (speculative analysis while the opponent is thinking) aka Permanent Brain.
- Transposition table sizes.
- Opening book settings.
These differences affect the results, and make direct comparisons between rating lists difficult. All listed engines are 64-bit.
| Rating list | Time control (moves/minutes) | Year started | Last updated | Engine/platform entries | Games played | Top three engines | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCRL[3] | 40/40[4] Ponder OFF | 2005 | March 1, 2014 | 1427 | 500,530 | Houdini 4 x64 4CPU Stockfish DD x64 4CPU Komodo TCEC x64 4CPU | 3267 3247 3238 |
| CEGT[5] | 40/20[6] Ponder OFF | 2006 | March 2, 2014 | 1198 | 723,221 | Houdini 4 x64 4CPU Stockfish DD x64 4CPU Komodo TCEC x64 4CPU | 3159 3145 3134 |
| IPON[7] | 5m+3s ~16min/game Ponder ON | 2006 | January 5, 2014 | 134 | 295,420 | Houdini 4 Stockfish DD Komodo TCECr | 3114 3060 3048 |
| SWCR[8] | 40/5 Ponder ON | 2009 | January 31, 2014 | 21 | 17,500 | Houdini 4 x64 1CPU Stockfish 4 130512-beta x64 1CPU Komodo TCEC x64 1CPU | 3098 3066 3046 |
| SSDF[9] | 40/120 --> 20/60 Ponder ON | 1984 | November 11, 2013 | 337 | 132,746 | Komodo 5.1 MP x64 2GB Q6600 2.4 GHz Stockfish 3 MP x64 2GB Q6600 2.4 GHz Deep Rybka 4 x64 2GB Q6600 2.4 GHz | 3241 3211 3208 |
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