Congratulations to the Komodo team, which has not only qualified for the season 12 superfinal but even won the qualifying stage, half a point ahead of defending champion Stockfish! Stockfish went undefeated in the qualifier and went +1 in its eight-game mini-match against Komodo...
No time this week for detailed blogging - sorry - so I'll just offer a quick update on Leuven, the first stop on this year's Grand Chess Tour, and then on TCEC.
One of India's top women chess players has pulled out of an upcoming championship in Iran in protest at having to wear an Islamic headscarf.
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Cyprus Closed Championship 52 games
29th NATO Championship 25 games
Greek Cup Team (Quarter Final) 4 games
23rd Sharjah Rapid 8 games
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Preview here. Unfortunately, they're once again using the idiotic time delay rather than increments; I offer apologies for my country to people of good will and good sense everywhere. There's a slight...
The penultimate stage prior to the super-final is getting close to the end, and all three of the top engines are still in the running. Stockfish leads with 27/42, Komodo has 26.5, and Houdini has 25.5....
Going into the last round Sam Shankland was tied for first, and helped a bit by a soft pairing, he finished in clear first. IM Tomas Sosa was enjoying a great event; unfortunately, Black in the last round against a player rated 264 points above him didn't help.