Thursday
Jul052018
Stockfish Wins TCEC Season 12 Superfinal over Komodo, 60-40
Thursday, July 5, 2018 at 12:28PM
It started off competitively, but it didn't end that way. Stockfish 180614 (i.e. the June 14, 2018 development version) drubbed Komodo 12.1.1 by a 60-40 score, 29-9 in decisive games to take the TCEC season 12 title. (All the games from this season, and previous seasons as well, can be found and downloaded from here.)
Stockfish is still the engine to beat - at least among those running on the sorts of hardware we "regular" people have access to. Congrats to the Stockfish developers, and thanks to them for keeping it free!
tagged Komodo 12, Stockfish, TCEC, TCEC Season 12
Reader Comments (3)
Thanks for the post Dennis. I had three takeaways from a casual following of the match.
1) It seemed after about a 1/3 of the way through the match Komodo "gave up". I know engines don't do that, but Komodo did stop winning for a very long time. It went for about a +5 advantage for Stockfish to about a +15 during that period.
2) There were games where Stockfish was often 20 to 30 minutes ahead on the clock. Komodo, while playing a very good game, was suddenly living on the time increment. Stockfish was able to take 2 to 3 minutes for these critical moves while Komodo was force to move every 15 to 30 seconds.
3) Stockfish is just a whole lot better than all the other engines.
Regarding Stockfish contempt settings see ChessPublishing forum post "Stockfish 9 Released" and Reply #39 by brabo. Three pages of discussion (40 replies) as of now.
[DM: Thanks. Care to give the tl;dr summary?]
Edit: "Stockfish 9 Released" topic is under heading "Chess and Computers" near the bottom of the menu.