nTCEC - Season 1 - Superfinal | Houdini vs Stockfish | 16CPU

[Martin Thoresen]

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nTCEC Season 1 – Superfinal starts Friday April 26th at 19:00 UTC+2.



The Superfinal is a 48 game match.
The engines will play both sides of the openings, which are proposed by the nTCEC community.

The winner will become the nTCEC Grand Champion!

The list of participants for the Superfinal:
Houdini
Stockfish

nTCEC is using 150m + 60s per move for the whole game, running on a dual Intel Xeon E5-2689 @ 3300 MHz.
16 cores will be used for each engine.

Read the full nTCEC rules here:
http://www.tcec-chess.net/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=20

The broadcast will be running 24/7 with 1 game at a time, and can be watched here, also with chat:
http://www.tcec-chess.net/live.php (Widescreen can be selected in the top right corner)

Finished games from the Superfinal will be moved here:
http://www.tcec-chess.net/superfinal.php

Read the latest nTCEC news here:
http://www.tcec-chess.net/viewforum.php?f=2

Hope to see everyone there!

Best Regards,
Martin Thoresen

[Tomcass]

Thanks, Martin! I will follow closely this exciting final.

Best wishes,

Tom.

[Kohflote]

Hi Martin,

I look forward to the final. Just wonder which version of Stockfish you will be using.

Thank you for great effort to give us such exciting games.

Best wishes,
Koh, Kah Huat

[beachknight]

Thank you for this excellent marathon work Martin. best,

[Martin Thoresen]

Thanks guys.

I look forward to the final. Just wonder which version of Stockfish you will be using.

It will be the latest version that Marco sends to me. When it is updated I will as usual make a post in the News section of the nTCEC forum and on the Facebook page.

[Jouni]

Luckily we are saved from totally uninteresting Houdini - Rybka match - but it was close! Hope You got running 25.4. version of SF .

[S.Taylor]

Luckily we are saved from totally uninteresting Houdini - Rybka match - but it was close! Hope You got running 25.4. version of SF .

Why, is it a couple of elo stronger?

[Kohflote]

Based on the the last testing by Tom Casanovas, the strongest version of Stockfish is 19 April 2013 version, compiled by Ipman.

Not sure whether Tom is testing the 25th April version.

Best wishes,
Koh, Kah Huat

[Martin Thoresen]

Now live!

[gotogo]

what are some of the best settings for stockfish?

I am messing around a little here and there but I would like some help here if possible.
The latest Stockfish I have is a beast. I use it to find new moves, and in the middle game it outplays Houdini. It has outstanding pawn game. I love the depth it reaches. Nodes are down a bit to Houdini but I think the depth makes up for it. Every now and then it blunders. maybe my settings stink.