Superfinal Results

Superfinal Crosstable

# Name Rtg Perf 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1 Stockfish 051117 3400 3424 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 2 Houdini 6.02 3407 3383 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 ½

Round Robin Final Standings

Round Robin Crosstable

# Name Rtg Perf 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Pts SB 1 Stockfish 051117 3400 3526 01 ½½ ½1 ½1 11 11 11 11 ½1 14.5/18 2 Houdini 6.02 3407 3444 10 ½½ ½½ 1½ 1½ 11 1½ 1½ 11 13.0/18 3 Komodo 1959.00b 3398 3422 ½½ ½½ ½1 ½½ ½1 ½½ 11 11 1½ 12.5/18 4 Fire 6.2 3300 3389 ½0 ½½ ½0 ½½ 1½ ½1 1½ 11 11 11.5/18 5 Andscacs 0.92 3240 3258 ½0 0½ ½½ ½½ ½½ ½½ ½½ ½½ ½½ 8.0/18 6 Fizbo 1.9 3262 3237 00 0½ ½0 0½ ½½ ½½ ½½ 11 ½½ 7.5/18 55.00 7 Deep Shredder 13 3291 3234 00 00 ½½ ½0 ½½ ½½ 11 ½½ ½½ 7.5/18 54.75 8 Chiron 4 3203 3159 00 0½ 00 0½ ½½ ½½ 00 ½0 11 5.5/18 39.50 9 Booot 6.2 3224 3157 00 0½ 00 00 ½½ 00 ½½ ½1 1½ 5.5/18 37.00 10 Gull 3 syz 3191 3112 ½0 00 0½ 00 ½½ ½½ ½½ 00 0½ 4.5/18

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The world's strongest computer engines will compete in a first-of-its-kind speed chess tournament on Chess.com this November, the site announced today.

As computer engines have claimed the undisputed title as the best chess-playing entities on earth, interest in the machines has risen among chess fans.

The first annual Chess.com Computer Chess Championship (CCCC) will decide which engine is the best at the format of chess most played online: speed chess.

The Computer Chess Championship is scheduled for Nov. 13-16, with all four days featuring full live coverage on Chess.com/TV with master commentary and high production values to promote computer chess as a fun viewing experience for the modern gaming audience.

The tournament will include the top 10 engines in the world (chosen as of mid-August), with an option for engine authors to submit optimized versions of their programs for the Chess.com tournament.

The tournament will be a double round-robin for the 10 engines, with each program having White and Black once in a 15-minute game with two seconds increment against every other engine.

The top-two scoring engines in the round-robin will face each other in a thrilling super-final, where time controls will transition from rapid to blitz and finally to bullet chess as the match proceeds.

Chess.com will provide four days of live coverage with master commentary, broadcasting all 90 games of the round-robin and all 20 games of the super-final.

The engines will vie for a $2,500 prize pool for the authors, developers, or appropriate charities, split as follows:

1. $1,000

2. $750

3. $500

4. $250

The full list of participants, seeded in order of rating at the time of invitation in mid-August:

1. Stockfish

2. Komodo

3. Houdini

4. Shredder

5. Fire

6. Fizbo

7. Andscacs

8. Chiron

9. Gull

10. Booot

If no custom version is provided to Chess.com one week prior to the start of the match, the publicly available version of the engine as of that date (Nov. 6) will be used in the tournament.

To ensure fairness, each engine will be run on an identical computer with equal resources.

According to Norm Schmidt, the author of the computer engine Fire and Chess.com's advisor for computer chess, the technical details for the tournament are below.

The tournament will be run from an Amazon Web Services server farm located in Northern Virginia.

Each engine will utilize its own dedicated AWS virtualized instance of a hyperthreaded Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 2.90 GHz (two processors each with 18 cores) with 60.0 GB RAM running on Windows Server 2016 Data Center Edition.

UCI config:

32 threads.

4096 MB hash.

6-man Syzygy TBs (HDD).

All other UCI options will be set to default.

The actual tournament will be run as follows:

Ponder off.

No opening book.

No draw adjudication by evaluation.

No endgame adjudication. (The endgames be played out to mate or a forced draw for the benefit of the viewers.)

The tournament schedule and rules: