TCEC15: the 15th Top Chess Engine Championship

Haworth, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9896-1448 and Hernandez, N. (2019) TCEC15: the 15th Top Chess Engine Championship. ICGA Journal, 41 (3). pp. 153-163. ISSN 1389-6911 doi: 10.3233/ICG-190115

Abstract/Summary

TCEC15 was the 15th season of the Top Chess Engine Championship and ran from March 5th to May 28th, 2019. TCEC has become the largest Open Computer Chess Championship. It attracts the best engines in the field and provides an opportunity for absolute and comparative analysis of the participating engines in a computational experiment. Once again, the final offered a contrast of playing styles between neural-network engine LEELA CHESS ZERO and STOCKFISH. This time, the ‘new architecture’ LC0 won, 53½-46½, making their ‘TCEC Sufi’ score 103-97 to LC0. Again, KOMODO was third. The attached files at http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/83156/ provide the 808 games with engine PVs, the detail on them and some summary statistics. The decisive games of Divisions 1 and P, and of the Superfinal have been played out by FRITZ17 at depth 24 to mate to enable and benchmark endgame practice.

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URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/83156
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Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Computer Science
Uncontrolled Keywords	AllieStein, Fritz17, Komodo, KomodoMCTS, Leela Chess Zero, neural network, Stockfish, TCEC
Publisher	The International Computer Games Association
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