The league stage of the Top Chess Engine Championship (Season 25) reaches the pinnacle of the event – the Premier Division. The defending champion Stockfish will meet its main competit… Read More

The TCEC Season 23 Subfinal is a bonus 3rd-place match between the loser of the Superfinal (Lc0) and the winner of the Infrafinal (Komodo Dragon), played with the same opening book as t… Read More

Article by LowLeague 2 of TCEC Season 23 has ended. Minic emerges victorious, comfortably ahead of the competition, while Arasan, World Computer Chess Champion Fritz, and Nemorino promoting… Read More

The final match of the Top Engine Chess Championship is here. Stockfish is taking on Leela for the highest title in computer chess, in a 100 games match, starting today at 17:00 UTC on the o… Read More

The Premier Division of TCEC Season 23 is over, and we will see Stockfish take on Leela in the superfinal while Komodo Dragon takes on Ethereal in the infrafinal. Although this was the fores… Read More

Top Chess Engine Championship Season 23 is going to start this August. The defending champion Stockfish is going to compete with 45 of world’s best chess engines for the highest title… Read More

48 participants of 3100+ ELO are competing in the 3rd edition of the TCEC Swiss. After only the second round, the winner of the League and Cup – Stockfish – is sole leader. Stock… Read More

Indomitable engine Stockfish, having already won the TCEC Season 22, won the TCEC Cup 10 by defeating Komodo Dragon in the finals. After Stockfish’s dominant performance in Premier Div… Read More

At the time of the last article, Stockfish had already won the TCEC Season 22 Superfinal, but it was still pursuing two potential records: the record for the most decisive Superfinal, and an… Read More

Ethereal, the chess engine by Andrew Grant, won Division 4 of the Top Chess Engine Championship. It collected 23,5/28 points without conceding a single game and showing impressive improvemen… Read More

After the third double round robin of the Top Chess Engine Championship S22 Premier Division KomodoDragon has reduced the distance with Stockfish to just half a point. The open source chess… Read More

Koivisto, the open source chess engine by Kim Kåhre and Finn Eggers, is the winner of the Qualification League of the Top Chess Engine Championship. Koivisto secured the QL title with… Read More

Written by Guy Haworth and Nelson HernandezReading, UK and Maryland, USA Corresponding author: [email protected] This is the latest in our series of analytical articles on past TCEC ev… Read More

TCEC Cup is coming, with the top 32 engines in a knockout competitionThe TCEC Cup is now an integral part of the seasons of the Top Chess Engine Championship. It brings a special twist to th… Read More

Komodo MCTS (Monte Carlo Tree Search) is the star newcomer to the Top Chess Engine Championship league. It has won Division 4, and qualified from Division 2 and 3 to enter the elite group of… Read More

Written by Guy Haworth and Nelson HernandezReading, UK and Maryland, USA Corresponding author: [email protected] This is the latest in our series of analytical articles on past TCEC ev… Read More