The coming match between Magnus Carlsen vs. Fabiano Caruana wasn't the only world championship final set this week; the unofficial but de facto world computer chess championship finalists have been set as well. The latest development version of Stockfish came in first in the last of the preliminary stages of the Top Chess Engine Championship, scoring 61/84 and finishing with a plus score against all the other engines. It lost a game to Komodo in the first cycle (on the black side of a Botvinnik System, which is an eminently loseable line for any finite entity lacking access to a massive opening book); it eventually avenged itself twice over. It also defeated the runner-up, Houdini, in a single game, drawing the rest. The other five engines were obliterated by Stockfish.
As for Houdini, it also performed well. It came in clear second with 54.5 points, losing only the one game to Stockfish and beating Komodo three times. Houdini and Stockfish will face off in the Superfinal starting sometime on Thursday.
Komodo was the odd engine out, scoring 51.5 points. In addition to its losses to its main competitors, it also lost a game to one of the other engines - to Andscacs. (Which is not to say that it had a minus score to it - Komodo beat it six times in the other 11 games.)
In fourth place was Fire with 42.5, barely achieving a plus score, and the next engine down was Chiron with 36. Andscacs scored 35, Fizbo 31, and Ginkgo came in last with 24.5.
By my (possibly slightly inaccurate) count, the big three beat the bottom five 83-1 in decisive games. Seriously, TCEC people, it's time for a three engine or four engine final.