TCEC Stage 2a - Season 3 (150m + 30s) LIVE! Starts 18/5

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tomgdrums
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Re: TCEC Stage 2a - Season 3 (150m + 30s) LIVE! Starts 18/5

Post by tomgdrums »

BB+ wrote:Just now, I realise there was a "sign" versus "sine" confusion - I did indeed meant the former, as for negative x, you first want to negate it. In realtime, the graphs are OK, but for those who don't match TCEC 24 hours a day, eyeballing a graph from a decisive game in the post-mortem can often not reveal too much.

Junior had another nice win against Sjeng, after White was preferred as much as 1.00 by Sjeng (move 26).

But then, just as I came in, Rybka had jumped fairly rapidly from 0.00 to 2.96 in a rook ending against Junior (which was almost drawn previously due to lots of near-0.00 scores and shuffling). The first move where Rybka had a non-0.00 score was 72. Rxh5, after which Junior originally thought Black was better. The scores were both 0.00 from move 50 to 63, but then Junior favoured Black a bit after the a4 push, but moving the King up so as to support the a-pawn backfired in the end.

I went to bed before the Rybka-Junior game ended and I checked the position with a couple of engines (Shredder, and Rybka) and they were adamant that it was a draw. I love Junior but I have seen it blow many a win and/or draw because of some icky endgame play.
Martin Thoresen
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Re: TCEC Stage 2a - Season 3 (150m + 30s) LIVE! Starts 18/5

Post by Martin Thoresen »

Standings after 9 of 14 rounds:

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N Engine          Pts   SB    St Ry Ju Cr Sp Sj Na Gu 

1 Stockfish 2.11  7.0  26.00     =  1  == 1  1  =  11 
2 Rybka 4.1       6.5  25.00  =     01 =  1  1  1  1= 
3 Junior 12.5     5.0  20.25  0  10    1  0  =1 =  1  
4 Critter 1.01    4.0  18.75  == =  0     =  =  01 =  
5 Spark 1.0       4.0  14.50  0  0  1  =     =0 == 1  
6 Sjeng c't 2010  4.0  14.25  0  0  =0 =  =1    =  1  
7 Naum 4.2        3.5  16.00  =  0  =  10 == =     0  
8 Gull 3683       2.0   8.75  00 0= 0  =  0  0  1     
TCEC - Thoresen Chess Engines Competition
http://tcec.chessdom.com
kaiser101
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Re: TCEC Stage 2a - Season 3 (150m + 30s) LIVE! Starts 18/5

Post by kaiser101 »

Why has Stage 2a stopped mid way? Any updates on when it will resume?
Odeus37
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Re: TCEC Stage 2a - Season 3 (150m + 30s) LIVE! Starts 18/5

Post by Odeus37 »

kaiser101 wrote:Why has Stage 2a stopped mid way? Any updates on when it will resume?
Explanations there : viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1407 :(
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