Mini-TCEC Season 2

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Mini-TCEC S2 - Qualifying League (Completed)

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QL-PGN: https://www.mediafire.com/file/bgy7rf2k ... 2.pgn/file
Congrats to:
Rebel - Advanced to League 6
Uralochka - Advanced to League 6
Caissa - Advanced to League 6
Expositor - Advanced to League 6
Smallbrain - Advanced to League 6
Vault - Advanced to League 6

Asymptote - Advanced to League 6


Standings:
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Mini-TCEC Tournament - Season 2

Processor = Ryzen 5 3500u
GPU = Vega Graphics
RAM = 12gb
OS = Windows 11 pro
GUI = Bankasia GUI will change to Arena GUI

Engine rating
1. Elo Offset is Stockfish 11 rating in CCRL 40/15 list which is 3432 to have measure of strength in the tournament

PGN
1. Will be updated every game and will be post in the forum

Game Format
   QL - Swiss Format
   L6 to L2 - 1 Double Round Robin
   L1 - 2 Double Round Robin
   PL - 4 Double Round Robin
   Battle for Third - consist of 50 games - all 50 games will be played
   Finals - consist of 100 games - all 100 games will be played

Game adjudication
1. Normal 3-fold repetition rule or the 50-move rule.
2. A game can also be drawn at move 35 or later if the eval from both playing engines are within +0.15 to -0.15 pawns for the last 10 moves, or 20 plies.
3. 6-men Syzygy tablebases.

Time Control
QL-L4 = 30mins + 5secs
L3 - L2 = 45mins + 12sec
L1 = 65mins + 15secs
PL & Battle for Third = 75mins + 17secs
Finals = 120mins + 20 secs


Engine Settings
1. All settings will be default except for the following:
2. Hash = 1024mb
3. Thread = 4
4. EGTB = 6men Syzygy, and 5 - Gaviota & Nalimov & EGTB Hash = 256mb
5. Book learning: Off for all engines
6. Position learning: Off for all engines.
7. Pondering: OFF


Engine Updates & Version
1. Inform will be sent to the authors.
2. Engine always update every Promotion in the League
3. Dev Version is allowed to play

Crashes
1. 1st crash in a game will be reset
2. then If an engine crashes again in that game then it will counted as losses

Opening book
QL - 1 book moves (random)
L6 - 2 book moves (randon)
L5 - 3 book moves (random)
L4 - 4 book moves (random)
L3 - 6 book moves (random)
L2 - 8 book moves (random)
L1 - Any book moves (random)
PL - Any book moves (sequential)
Battle for Third = Any book moves (sequential)
Finals = Any book moves (sequential)

Guideline rules of the tournament
CCRL Rules:
https://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/about.html

Reference of TCEC-Based Rules:
https://wiki.chessdom.org/TCEC_Leagues_Season_Rules



Finals
1.
2.

Battle for Third
3.
4.

Premier League
01. Stockfish
02. Komodo Dragon
03. Berserk
04. Ethereal
05. Igel
06. Lc0dx12
07.
08.

League 1
01. ScorpioNNUE
02. RubiChess
03. Koivisto
04. SlowChess
05. Revenge
06. RofChade
07.
08.


League 2
01. Nemorino
02. Arasan
03. Minic
04. Seer
05. Halogen
06. Booot
07. Combusken
08. Wasp
09.
10.
11.
12.


League 3
01. Fritz
02. Vajolet
03. Clover
04. Zahak
05. Hiarcs
06. Weiss
07. Chiron
08. 
09.
10.
11.
12.

League 4
01. Toga
02. Marvin
03. Winter
04. Orion
05. Nirvana
06. Stash
07. DanaSah
08. Invictus
09.
10.
11.
12.

League 5
01. Texel
02. Tucano
03. Topple
04. Cheese
05. Bagatur
06. Drofa
07. Roc
08. Mr.Bob
09. Orion
10. Velvet
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.


League 6
01: Counter
02: Grecko
03: Black Marlin
04: Amoeba
05: Colossus
06: Devre
07: Mantissa
08: Blunder
09. Ceibo
10. Francesca
11. Rebel - Advanced to League 6
12. Uralochka - Advanced to League 6
13. Caissa - Advanced to League 6
14. Expositor - Advanced to League 6
15. Smallbrain - Advanced to League 6
16. Vault - Advanced to League 6
17. Asymptote - Advanced to League 6



Qualifying League

Swiss Format
6 Rounds: 12 Games each
01: Uralochka - version 3.37c
02: Rebel - version 15.1 
03: Smallbrain - version 6.0dev_08082022
04: Alexandria - version 2.4-dev
05. Expositor - version 2WN29
06. Nalwald - version 16
07. Frozenight - version 5dev_31072022
08. Weiawaga - version dev6_08082022
09. Devel - version 4.0.2.3
10. Protej - version 0.6.3
11. Caissa - version 0.8
12. Fridolin - version 4.00 ninu-0.4b
13. Leorik - version 2.2
14. Asymptote - version 0.9dev_09062022
15. Olithink - version 5.10.1
16. Nawito - version 22.07
17. Myddrin - version 0.89
18. Keele - version 1.0 
19. LGE NN - version 3.15.4
20. Odonata - version 0.6.13
21. StockNemo - version 4.0.0.1
22. Delocto - version 05072022
23. Avalanche - version 1.1.0
24. Rodent - version NN 1.1
25. Vault - version 0.4.1
26. Inanis - version 1.1
27. KnightX - version 3.4
28. Fire-zero - version 05082022
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Mini-TCEC S2 - League 6 (Preparation)

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Opening book = 2 book moves (random)
Threads = 4
Hash = 1024mb
TC = 30mins + 5secs

League 6 - Round Robin
01: Counter - version dev_300922
02: Grecko - version 2021.12 will play
03: Black Marlin - version 290922 will play
04: Amoeba - version 3.4 will play
05: Colossus - version 2022a will play
06: Devre - version 4.14 will play
07: Mantissa - version 3.7.2 will play
08: Blunder - versionn 8.5.5 will play
09. Ceibo - version 0.9 will play
10. Francesca - version 0.32 will play
11. Rebel - will update to 15.1a
12. Uralochka - will update to 3.38c
13. Caissa - will update to version 1.0.0
14. Expositor - will update to version 2BR17
15. Smallbrain - will update to 29092022
16. Vault - same version will play - 0.4.1
17. Asymptote - same version will play - 0.9dev_09062022 will play
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League 6: Game 1

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League 6: Game 2

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League 6: Game 3

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League 6: Game 4

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League 6: Game 5

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League 6: Game 6

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League 6: Game 7

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League 6: Game 8

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