TCEC Season 13: The Important Stage Begins

The current format for the Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) - the de facto computer world chess championship - is a series of round robins where lower-rated engines compete for slots in the next round-robin up. The preliminary rounds are over and now it's the last round robin, where the big three - Stockfish, Komodo, and Houdini - and some other elite engines and the qualifiers from below duke it out for the right to play in the Superfinal. That's reserved for the engines that place first and second, which will almost certainly be Stockfish in the #1 spot and Komodo or Houdini at #2. We'll see if that's right, and you can follow the action here.