The TCEC – Season 6 Grand champion Stockfish, modification 091114, maintains the lead in TCEC Season 7 – Stage 3 with 17/24 points.

Komodo 1324 is clear second with 16 points.

The third seeded Houdini is facing Stockfish right now. Follow the encounter LIVE at the official website or replay the games in the Archive mode.

Stage 3 rules

Stage 3 consists of the 8 engines that qualified from Stage 2. The format for Stage 3 is a tetra round robin (x 4) so that 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.

TCEC so far

Komodo wins TCEC Season 5 / Stockfish wins Season 6/ Gull wins Stage 1a / Houdini wins Stage 1b/ Only 3000+ engines qualify for Stage 3

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Standings after 24 rounds:


1 Stockfish 091114 3231 17.0/ 24
2 Komodo 1324 3219 16.0/24
3 Houdini 4 3211 14/24
4 Gull 3 3111 13.5/24
5 Chiron 2 3028 9.5/24
6 Critter 1.6a 3094 9.0/24
7 Junior 13.3 3000 8.5/24
8 Protector 1.8b2 2984 8.5/24

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