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

[JuLieN]

WCCC is for chess engine authors and book builders to have a nice vacation and informal meetings, in which they discuss about girls and glorious 1970es in CC. Surely not an event of public interest. Its title must be changed into something more appropriate like "Invitational Computer Chess Meeting and Dinners".

Provocative, but there's something true in this.

[S.Taylor]

So WHICH engines are expected to come out soon and be well stronger than houdini and SF of this superfinal?

[Martin Thoresen]

Thank you Ian, and thank you everyone for visiting and for your kind words.

I am quite proud of Season 1, even though there were a few changes underway (like the hardware switch, website redesign, forum implementation etc).

Now the foundation is ready so Season 2 should be much more smooth.
You can expect Season 2 to start in September.

[ernest]

there were a few changes underway (...website redesign, etc)...

Thanks again for making it compatible with IE8 !!!

[Martin Thoresen]

Thanks again for making it compatible with IE8 !!!

Well I think that was just because I made a CSS rewrite.

[hgm]

For the public I think this is better then WCCC. Some engines would not qualify under their stricter rules, and live coverage of WCCC games is patchy. nTCEC runs rings around WCCC. But admittedly a different focus - WCCC is allegedly for the programmers, and nTCEC is for the public. So both have their place and their supporters.

I often wondered why the coverage of the WCCC is awful beyond compare. It seems the participants have to big a say in how the event is run, and for a reason I am unable to fathom they are extremely disinterested in putting up a good show. Other games in the ICGA Olympiad do not suffer from this at all. In Go, for instance, they oblige all participants to connect to a publicly accessible server. If your program can't, then you are out, as simple as that.

Especially for Chess, where the technology to play on an ICS has been around for decades, it is truly shameful they display such a disregard for the public.