The third Stage of TCEC – Season 6 is in progress. The format is a quad round robin each engine will play both sides of the same opening against each other, twice. The top 4 will move on to Stage 4 while the rest are out of TCEC for the current season.

The Komodo Chess Engine leads Stage 3 of the prestigious computer chess championship. Komodo (3133) has collected 2.5/3, half a point ahead of Rybka (3087), Critter (3031) and Houdini (3132).

In the third round Houdini crushed Shredder (2921) in just 65 moves, while Stage 2 winner Stockfish (3135) defended well against Fire (3096) and managed to draw an opposite colored bishop endgame with two pawns less.

Replay the games from Stage 3 in the Archive mode

Standings after 3 rounds of Stage 3 TCEC:

1 Komodo 1217 (3133) 2.5
2 Rybka 4.1 (3087) 2.0
3 Critter 1.6a (3031) 2.0
4 Houdini 4 (3132) 2.0
5 Stockfish 080414 (3135) 1.5
6 Gull A228 (3021) 1.0
7 Fire 3.1 (3096) 0.5
8 Shredder 12 (2921) 0.5

Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
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