28.03.2013
Пресс-релиз TCEC
Hello, this is a press-release from TCEC sent to all major chess news sites.
TCEC Season 1 – Stage 3 starts Saturday, March 30th at 14:00 UTC+1.
The big news is that the computer hardware has been upgraded to a 16-core server that will allow the engines to play the most spectacular chess anyone has seen.
Stage 3 is a double round robin, consisting of 8 engines of whom 4 qualified from Stage 2a and 4 qualified from Stage 2b.
The top 4 will move on to Stage 4, while the rest is out of nTCEC for the current Season.
The list of participants for Stage 3, in seed order:
Vitruvius, Komodo, Chiron and Quazar (qualified from Stage 2b)
Houdini, Stockfish, Rybka and Hiarcs (qualified from Stage 2a)
nTCEC is using 150m + 60s per move for the whole game, running on a dual Intel Xeon E5-2689 @ 3300 MHz.
Up to 16 cores can be used for engines capable of SMP.
Read the full TCEC rules here:
http://www.tcec-chess.net/info.php
The broadcast will be running 24/7 with 1 game at a time, and can be watched here:
http://www.tcec-chess.net/live.php
Finished games from Stage 1 will be moved here:
http://www.tcec-chess.net/stage_1.php
Read the latest TCEC news here:
https://www.facebook.com/tcec.chess (you can read without having a FB account)
Old TCEC archive:
http://www.tcec-chess.net/game_archive.php
Best Regards,
Martin Thoresen
