TCEC Unofficial World Computer Chess Championship - Round 18 : Komodo vs Stockfish

â–ºPlaylists: http://goo.gl/FxpqEH â–ºKingscrusher's Greatest Hit Videos! : http://goo.gl/447QLb â–ºFREE online chess at http://www.chessworld.net/chessclubs/asplogin.asp?from=1053 or realtime at http://www.chessclub.com/from/kingscrusher [Event "TCEC Season 6 Superfinal"] [Site "?"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "18"] [White "Komodo 7x"] [Black "Stockfish 170514"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "3155"] [BlackElo "3164"] [PlyCount "81"] {Thoresen Chess Engines Competition or TCEC or nTCEC is a computer chess tournament organized, directed and hosted by Martin Thoresen. It was started in 2010. After a short break in 2012,[1] TCEC was restarted in early 2013 (as nTCEC)[2] and is currently active with all-day live broadcasts of chess matches on its website. TCEC is often regarded as the Unofficial World Computer Chess Championship because of its strong participant line-up and long time control matches on high-end hardware, giving rise to very high-class chess.[3][4] Supported by original engine authors and based on voluntarism and donation, it caused a furor in February 2011, when the free version of Houdini defeated reigning computer chess champion Rybka in a 40-game match.[5][6][7] The current season of nTCEC is sponsored by Chessdom Arena.[8][9] The time control in all events is 120+30 (120 minutes + 30 seconds added per move for the whole game) and pondering is set to off. The Opening Book is taken from recent strong human Grandmaster tournaments, is truncated to the first 6 or 8 moves, and is changed in every Stage. Engines are allowed updates between stages, unless there is a critical play-limiting bug, in which case the engine can be updated once during the stage. TCEC generates its own elo rating list from the matches played during the tournament. An initial rating is given to any new participant based on its rating in other chess engine rating lists. After Stage 4 has finished, the top 2 engines meet in a Superfinal of 48 games. This match is played with 24 different openings so that each engine plays both black and white of the same position. The match is presented with opening 1 used in games 1 and 2, then opening 2 used in games 3 and 4 etc. If the match is theoretically won for one side before game 48, the match will still continues until all 48 games have been played. In the case of a drawn match there is a Rapid match of 12 games with a time control of 25' + 10". In case it is still tied, there is a Blitz match of 6 games with a time control of 3" + 2'. When the Superfinal is over, the current Season ends. Stockfish is an open source UCI chess engine, developed by Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba and Joona Kiiski, available for various desktop and mobile platforms. It is derived from Glaurung, an open source engine by Romstad. As of March 2014, Stockfish is in the top three in all major computer chess rankings More info on Wiki Komodo is a UCI chess engine developed by Don Dailey, Mark Lefler, and supported by chess author and evaluation expert, Larry Kaufman. Komodo is a commercial chess engine but older versions (5.0 and older) are free for non-commercial use. It is consistently rated in the top three on most major chess engine rating lists.[1][2][3][4][5] More info on Wiki Game 17 same opening - in pairs} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 Nc6 6. Be3 a6 7. Qd2 Rb8 8. O-O-O O-O 9. Kb1 b5 10. cxb5 axb5 11. Bxb5 Na5 12. Nge2 (12. b4 c6 13. Bd3 Rxb4+) 12... c6 13. Bd3 Be6 14. h4 Rb7 15. Nf4 Bc4 16. Qe2 (16. Bc2 Qa8) 16... Qb6 17. Bxc4 Nxc4 18. b3 Qb4 19. Rd3 e5 20. dxe5 Nd7 21. e6 (21. exd6 Bxc3) 21... Nc5 (21... fxe6 22. Nxe6 Bxc3 23. Nxf8 Kxf8 24. Rxc3 Qxc3 25. Bc1) 22. exf7+ (22. Bxc5 dxc5) 22... Rbxf7 (22... Rfxf7 23. Bxc5 dxc5 (23... Qxc5 24. Ne6) 24. Rd2 (24. Rd8+)) 23. Ncd5 (23. Na4 Nxa4) (23. Nd1 Rxf4 24. Bxf4 Na3+ 25. Kc1 Nxd3+ 26. Qxd3 Rxf4) (23. Nh3 Nxb3 24. axb3 Qxb3+ 25. Kc1 Ra8 26. Qc2 Ra1+ 27. Nb1 Bb2+ 28. Kd1 Rxb1+) 23... cxd5 24. Nxd5 Na3+ 25. Kc1 Qb5 26. Kd2 Nc4+ 27. Ke1 (27. bxc4 Qb2+ 28. Ke1 Nxd3+ 29. Qxd3 Qxg2) 27... Qa5+ 28. Rd2 Nxd2 29. Qxd2 Qxd2+ 30. Kxd2 Ra8 31. Bxc5 Rxa2+ 32. Kd3 dxc5 33. f4 Rb7 34. h5 Rxb3+ 35. Kc4 Rbb2 36. Rd1 Ra4+ 37. Kxc5 Rxe4 38. Nb6 Rxf4 39. Na8 Rxg2 40. Rc1 gxh5 41. Nc7 0-1 â–ºSupport the channel by donating via PayPal: http://goo.gl/7HJcDq