All divisions and participants
The second season of the TCEC super computer championship, including the mighty champion Houdini, Rybka, and Stockfish, has started. The lowest division, with engines ranked about 2500-2650 ELO, is currently ongoing. The Division F participants are Delphi 2.6b, Naraku 1.31, Gnu 5.07.170.5b, Philou 3.5 , Glass 1.6, and Pawny 0.2.
Naraku 1.31 is currently leading convincingly with 7,5/8, a full point ahead of it’s closest contender. Replay all games here
Naraku is a free UCI engine. It uses many of the most diffuse algorithms used in modern chess engines: alpha-beta and null move pruning, bitboard, etc. It is in an early stage of development, but already has opening book support and ponder mode.Naraku is written in C++ and it is very fast (about 1-1.5 MNodes/s on a single CPU). The current rating estimates of the engine are at about 2600-2630 points.
The author of Naraku is Michele Tumbarello. The most important releases so far have been Naraku 1.01 (book support), Naraku 1.1 (better evaluation function, better material weight), Naraku 1.2 (adaptive deep reazoning, futility pruning), and the current Naraku 1.31 (better pgo compile, late move reduction, better evaluation function, etc.)
Right after the end of Division F will start Division E, with engines ranked above 2600 ELO points performance, including Gaviota, Redqueen, Daydreamer, Scorpio, Deuterium, and Tornado. Follow all games live at Chessdom / Chessbomb arena and the TCEC official site, where the season continues with divisions F to A.
TCEC A
Houdini
Rybka
Stockfish
Ivanhoe
Critter
Shredder
TCEC B
Junior
Spark
Naum
Hiarcs
Loop
Zappa
TCEC C
Komodo
Onno
Sjeng c’t
Gull
Spike
Booot
TCEC D
Jonny
Hannibal
Protector
Crafty
Chronos
Chessmaster
TCEC E
Tornado
Daydreamer
Scorpio
Gaviota
Redqueen
Deuterium
TCEC F
Naraku
Pawny
Glass
Philou
Gnuchess
Delphil
