Mini-TCEC Season 2

[bastiball]

Mini-TCEC Tournament - Season 2

Processor = Ryzen 5 3500u
GPU = Vega Graphics
RAM = 12gb
OS = Windows 11 pro
GUI = Bankasia GUI

Engine rating
1. Elo Offset is Stockfish 11 rating in CCRL 40/15 list which is 3432 to have measure of strength in the tournament

PGN
1. Will be updated every game and will be post in the forum

Game Format
QL - Swiss Format
L6 to L2 - 1 Double Round Robin
L1 - 2 Double Round Robin
PL - 4 Double Round Robin
Battle for Third - consist of 50 games - all 50 games will be played
Finals - consist of 100 games - all 100 games will be played

Game adjudication
1. Normal 3-fold repetition rule or the 50-move rule.
2. A game can also be drawn at move 35 or later if the eval from both playing engines are within +0.15 to -0.15 pawns for the last 10 moves, or 20 plies.
3. 6-men Syzygy tablebases.

Time Control
QL-L4 = 30mins + 5secs
L3 - L2 = 45mins + 12sec
L1 = 65mins + 15secs
PL & Battle for Third = 75mins + 17secs
Finals = 120mins + 20 secs


Engine Settings
1. All settings will be default except for the following:
2. Hash = 1024mb
3. Thread = 4
4. EGTB = 6men Syzygy, and 5 - Gaviota & Nalimov & EGTB Hash = 256mb
5. Book learning: Off for all engines
6. Position learning: Off for all engines.
7. Pondering: OFF


Engine Updates & Version
1. Inform will be sent to the authors.
2. Engine always update every Promotion in the League
3. Dev Version is allowed to play

Crashes
1. 1st crash in a game will be reset
2. then If an engine crashes again in that game then it will counted as losses

Opening book
QL - 1 book moves (random)
L6 - 2 book moves (randon)
L5 - 3 book moves (random)
L4 - 4 book moves (random)
L3 - 6 book moves (random)
L2 - 8 book moves (random)
L1 - Any book moves (random)
PL - Any book moves (sequential)
Battle for Third = Any book moves (sequential)
Finals = Any book moves (sequential)

Guideline rules of the tournament
CCRL Rules:
https://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/about.html

Reference of TCEC-Based Rules:
https://wiki.chessdom.org/TCEC_Leagues_Season_Rules



Finals
1.
2.

Battle for Third
3.
4.

Premier League
01. Stockfish
02. Komodo Dragon
03. Berserk
04. Ethereal
05. Igel
06. Lc0dx12
07.
08.

League 1
01. ScorpioNNUE
02. RubiChess
03. Koivisto
04. SlowChess
05. Revenge
06. RofChade
07.
08.


League 2
01. Nemorino
02. Arasan
03. Minic
04. Seer
05. Halogen
06. Booot
07. Combusken
08. Wasp
09.
10.
11.
12.


League 3
01. Fritz
02. Vajolet
03. Clover
04. Zahak
05. Hiarcs
06. Weiss
07. Chiron
08.
09.
10.
11.
12.

League 4
01. Toga
02. Marvin
03. Winter
04. Orion
05. Nirvana
06. Stash
07. DanaSah
08. Invictus
09.
10.
11.
12.

League 5
01. Texel
02. Tucano
03. Topple
04. Cheese
05. Bagatur
06. Drofa
07. Roc
08. Mr.Bob
09. Orion
10. Velvet
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.


League 6
01: Counter
02: Grecko
03: Black Marlin
04: Amoeba
05: Colossus
06: Devre
07: Mantissa
08: Blunder
09.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.



Qualifying League

Swiss Format
6 Rounds: 12 Games
01: Uralochka - version 3.37c
02: Rebel - version 15.1
03: Smallbrain - version 6.0dev_08082022
04: Alexandria - version 2.4-dev
05. Expositor - version 2WN29
06. Nalwald - version 16
07. Frozenight - version dev_31072022
08. Weiawaga - version dev6_08082022
09. Devel - version 4.0.2.3
10. Protej - version 0.6.3
11. Caissa - version 0.8
12. Fridolin - version 4.00 ninu-0.4b
13. Leorik - version 2.2
14. Asymptote - version 0.9dev_09062022
15. Olithink - version 5.10.1
16. Nawito - version 22.07
17. Myddrin - version 0.89
18. Keele - version 1.0
19. LGE NN - version 3.15.4
20. Odonata - version 0.6.13
21. StockNemo - version 4.0.0.1
22. Delocto - version 05072022
23. Avalanche - version 1.1.0
24. Rodent - version NN 1.1
25. Vault - version 0.4.1
26. Inanis - version 1.1
27. KnightX - version 3.4
28. Fire-zero - version 05082022

[bastiball]

You can see the updates and games here: http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.p ... 5a74c1ea2f

[Disservin]

Hi, not sure if the games are still ongoing but current dev smallbrain had some pretty serious issue, it would be great if you could use the latest commit
sha: aeb49110c0a09e880c570544dd7acca284c6fa72 "fix main branch ". Thanks

[bastiball]

Hi, not sure if the games are still ongoing but current dev smallbrain had some pretty serious issue, it would be great if you could use the latest commit
sha: aeb49110c0a09e880c570544dd7acca284c6fa72 "fix main branch ". Thanks

[Disservin]

forgot what i said... just use my release version XD somehow i created bugs