The 16th Top Chess Engine Championship: TCEC 16

Haworth, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9896-1448 and Hernandez, N. (2020) The 16th Top Chess Engine Championship: TCEC 16. ICGA Journal, 41 (4). pp. 241-252. ISSN 1389-6911 doi: 10.3233/ICG-190122

Abstract/Summary

TCEC16 was the 16th season of the Top Chess Engine Championship and ran from July 14th to October 13th, 2019. TCEC has become the largest Open Computer Chess Championship. It attracts the best engines in the field and provides an opportunity for a comparative analysis of the Shannon-AB and the new Neural-Network engines’ styles of play. STOCKFISH regained the title of Grand Champion by beating ALLIESTEIN in the Superfinal. The defending Grand Champion, LEELA CHESS ZERO was third. The attached files at http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/86830 provide the 950 games with engine PVs, the detail on them and some summary statistics.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/86830
Identification Number/DOI	10.3233/ICG-190122
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Computer Science
Publisher	The International Computer Games Association
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