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Top Chess Engine Championship
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Re: Top Chess Engine Championship
#2 The Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) is a computer chess tournament. The goal is to provide the viewers with a live broadcast of long time control, quality chess - played strictly between computer chess engines created by different programmers. One Season is divided into several Stages and lasts about 3-4 months. The winner of the Season will be the TCEC Grand Champion.
They are current playing to lowest league--the qualification league. There will be several leagues culminating in a superfinal. 100 matches between the two best engines.
It will be exiting to see how the conventional tree search, neural network and NNUE engines compare this year.
Re: Top Chess Engine Championship
#3The Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) is a computer chess tournament. The goal is to provide the viewers with a live broadcast of long time control, quality chess - played strictly between computer chess engines created by different programmers. One Season is divided into several Stages and lasts about 3-4 months. The winner of the Season will be the TCEC Grand Champion. They are current playing to lowest league--…
> live broadcast
As in, real time to the computation? Why though.
The SC2 bots don't compete in real time, many of them can't, most of those that can are clearly hampered when playing against a human (necessarily real time) versus a machine (not real time), but you just watch the matches as if they'd happened in real time after the game is finished.
Why not just have a fixed pace unrelated to how long the moves "really" took to calculate, with a (no longer real time) clock shown to indicate how the machines used their allotted time?
Re: Top Chess Engine Championship
#4The Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) is a computer chess tournament. The goal is to provide the viewers with a live broadcast of long time control, quality chess - played strictly between computer chess engines created by different programmers. One Season is divided into several Stages and lasts about 3-4 months. The winner of the Season will be the TCEC Grand Champion. They are current playing to lowest league--…
Yes it'd be fun :3
Re: Top Chess Engine Championship
#5The Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) is a computer chess tournament. The goal is to provide the viewers with a live broadcast of long time control, quality chess - played strictly between computer chess engines created by different programmers. One Season is divided into several Stages and lasts about 3-4 months. The winner of the Season will be the TCEC Grand Champion. They are current playing to lowest league--…
> live broadcast As in, real time to the computation? Why though. The SC2 bots don't compete in real time, many of them can't, most of those that can are clearly hampered when playing against a human (necessarily real time) versus a machine (not real time), but you just watch the matches as if they'd happened in real time after the game is finished. Why not just have a fixed pace unrelated to how long the moves "real…
You got a point too, umm
Re: Top Chess Engine Championship
#6The Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) is a computer chess tournament. The goal is to provide the viewers with a live broadcast of long time control, quality chess - played strictly between computer chess engines created by different programmers. One Season is divided into several Stages and lasts about 3-4 months. The winner of the Season will be the TCEC Grand Champion. They are current playing to lowest league--…
> live broadcast As in, real time to the computation? Why though. The SC2 bots don't compete in real time, many of them can't, most of those that can are clearly hampered when playing against a human (necessarily real time) versus a machine (not real time), but you just watch the matches as if they'd happened in real time after the game is finished. Why not just have a fixed pace unrelated to how long the moves "real…
I am not sure how the SC2 bots work, but chess engines always play in 'real time'. They already play at a decent level with 100 ms thinking time, and longer time controls mean higher quality moves.
Re: Top Chess Engine Championship
#7The Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) is a computer chess tournament. The goal is to provide the viewers with a live broadcast of long time control, quality chess - played strictly between computer chess engines created by different programmers. One Season is divided into several Stages and lasts about 3-4 months. The winner of the Season will be the TCEC Grand Champion. They are current playing to lowest league--…
> live broadcast As in, real time to the computation? Why though. The SC2 bots don't compete in real time, many of them can't, most of those that can are clearly hampered when playing against a human (necessarily real time) versus a machine (not real time), but you just watch the matches as if they'd happened in real time after the game is finished. Why not just have a fixed pace unrelated to how long the moves "real…
> As in, real time to the computation? Why though.
Why not? What have SC2 bots (or their abilities) to do with chess bots?
> Why not just have a fixed pace unrelated to how long the moves "really" took to calculate, with a (no longer real time) clock shown to indicate how the machines used their allotted time?
You can't show moves that haven't been played yet, so either your pace is much too slow, or you have to wait until the game is finished before displaying it. And it still wouldn't make sense to display the moves in a fixed pace when the pace (and time pressure) is in fact part of the game (see also the recent human world championship where many blunders were often played just before the 40th move because of time pressure).
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#8Stockfish has won in the past 5 seasons. Interesting project – their open source engine is used on both Chess.com and Lichess.
Re: Top Chess Engine Championship
#9Stockfish has won in the past 5 seasons. Interesting project – their open source engine is used on both Chess.com and Lichess. https://www.chess.com/terms/stockfish-chess-engine https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish
Would be interesting to see AlphaZero in this contest, but I don't think it is open source
[1] How AlphaZero Completely CRUSHED Stockfish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dT6CR9_6l4
Re: Top Chess Engine Championship
#10Stockfish has won in the past 5 seasons. Interesting project – their open source engine is used on both Chess.com and Lichess. https://www.chess.com/terms/stockfish-chess-engine https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish
Would be interesting to see AlphaZero in this contest, but I don't think it is open source [1] How AlphaZero Completely CRUSHED Stockfish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dT6CR9_6l4
Perhaps someone submitted LeelaZero at some point?