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TCEC, (nTCEC)
the Top Chess Engines Competition, prior to season 8 in 2015 called the Thoresen Chess Engines Competition, is a private tournament and rating list ¹ , organized, directed and hosted by Martin Thoresen, and since season 8 by Anton Mihailov, CEO of Chessdom ². It's goal is to provide viewers a live broadcast ³ of matches played between strong chess engines. Supported by original engine authors in providing their engines, and based on voluntariness and donation, TCEC does not enforce ICGA rules and sanctions concerning engine originality. Starting in 2010, TCEC caused a furor in February 2011, when Houdini 1.5 defeated Rybka 4.0 in a match, with the event recognized in various chess blogs ⁴. After a break in 2011 ⁵ , Thoresen relaunched TCEC in January 2013 ⁶ . In August 2013, for the start of season 5, TCEC joined forces with Chessdom Arena ^{7 8} .

Tournaments

Forum Posts

2010 ...

• Which match pair next? For the long TC matches. POLL! by Martin Thoresen, CCC, July 26, 2010
• Premiere: www.tcec-chess.org re-launched! by Martin Thoresen, CCC, August 13, 2010
• TCEC website update/news - now with Game of the Month! by Martin Thoresen, CCC, September 24, 2010
• TCEC relaunched! New rules, Divisions ++ MUST READ! by Martin Thoresen, CCC, November 30, 2010
• Grand premiere! The new TCEC! Completely redesigned. Forum++ by Martin Thoresen, CCC, December 19, 2010

2011

• Alexandra Kosteniuk writes about TCEC by Robert Houdart, CCC, January 26, 2011
• Houdini-Rybka (150m + 30s) LIVE! - TCEC Elite Match Season 1 by Martin Thoresen, CCC, January 27, 2011
• TCEC Announcement - Season 2 information! by Martin Thoresen, CCC, February 05, 2011
• Donations to TCEC by kgburcham, CCC, February 06, 2011
• TCEC SEASON 3 - All info by Martin Thoresen, CCC, April 25, 2011
• TCEC announcement: End of project by Martin Thoresen, CCC, May 28, 2011

2012

• TCEC - general interest? by Martin Thoresen, CCC, June 18, 2012

2013

• Official (re)launch of TCEC - website is up! by Martin Thoresen, CCC, January 12, 2013
• nTCEC Season 2 information + changes by Martin Thoresen, CCC, August 19, 2013
• Lineup for nTCEC Season 2 by Martin Thoresen, CCC, August 24, 2013
• nTCEC simulation by Don Dailey, CCC, October 28, 2013
• komodo wins stage 3 by Don Dailey, CCC, November 04, 2013

2014

• Dear all TCEC fans: New website up. Season 6 -> 7th of Feruary by Martin Thoresen, CCC, February 05, 2014
• TCEC Season 7 - Main Thread by Martin Thoresen, CCC, September 17, 2014

2015 ...

• What Happened to TCEC Season 8? Where is Martin? by APassionForCriminalJustic, CCC, April 06, 2015
• TCEC SEASON 8 by terrapene, OpenChess Forum, August 20, 2015
• TCEC Season 9 by Dmitri Gusev, CCC, April 04, 2016
• The TCEC... by Roberto Munter, CCC, November 24, 2016
• TCEC Season 10 announced by Stefan Pohl, CCC, August 12, 2017
• TCEC Season 11 - League-system by Stefan Pohl, CCC, November 10, 2017
• My failed attempt to change TCEC NN clone rules by Alexander Lyashuk, CCC, September 14, 2019 » AllieStein

2020 ...

• Dangerous turn by Dann Corbit, CCC, October 10, 2020 » NNUE
• A Thank You, to TCEC by Andrew Grant, CCC, December 21, 2020

External Links

• Live Computer Chess Broadcast
• Thoresen Chess Engines Competition - Wikipedia
• TCEC - Official github · GitHub
• TCEC - Thoresen Chess Engines Competition | Facebook
• Interview with Martin Thoresen – organizer and director of TCEC by Davorin Kuljasevic, Chessdom, May 28, 2014
• My TCEC Experience by Assaf Wool

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