Stockfish wins TCEC Stage-2

TCEC 2nd stage has just finished with Stockfish on top. This being not a surprise at all for the dedicated followers, it must be noted that Komodo and Fire were unbeaten while Stockfish lost to Houdini. Houdini lost one game to Komodo and Stockfish won against Rybka which finished 3rd.

The three musqueteers Stockfish, Komodo and Houdini are not alone and comfortable after brilliant performances of Fire and Rybka.

Behind these first five leading engines, Critter, Gull and Shredder are also qualified for Stage-3. However they don't promise any harm for the big five.

Naum and Protector, two surprisingly succesfull players of Stage-1 have both disappointed me with awful results.

And Junior, famous world champion of the past, is now clearly far from dominating the field at 14th place out of 16 engines.

Stage-3 will host first 8 engines qualified and this time a quadruple round robin tournament with both sides of the same opening will assure fairest competing conditions. The first 4 will go to stage-4 and we'll keep missing deep sleeps for a while.

## Engine           Elo  Pts/Gm  SB    S K R F H C G S C H T E N J S P
01 Stockfish 060314 3133 11.5/15 79.00 X = 1 = 0 1 = 1 1 = 1 1 1 = 1 1
02 Komodo 1188      3131 11.0/15 76.50 = X = = 1 1 = 1 = = = = 1 1 1 1
03 Rybka 4.1        3076 11.0/15 71.00 0 = X = = = = = 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
04 Fire 3.1         2984 10.5/15 72.75 = = = X = = = 1 1 1 1 = = 1 = 1
05 Houdini 4        3135  9.5/15 67.00 1 0 = = X = = = = 1 1 = 1 = = 1
06 Critter 1.6a     3034  8.0/15 52.00 0 0 = = = X = = = = = = 1 = 1 1
07 Gull A206        3031  7.0/15 52.50 = = = = = = X 0 = = = 0 = = 1 =
08 Shredder 12      2910  7.0/15 45.50 0 0 = 0 = = 1 X = = 0 1 = 1 = =
09 Chiron 2         2965  6.5/15 44.00 0 = 0 0 = = = = X 1 = = 1 = = 0
10 Hannibal 1.4b    2892  6.5/15 43.00 = = 0 0 0 = = = 0 X = 1 = = = 1
11 Texel 1.04a16    2878  6.5/15 41.00 0 = 0 0 0 = = 1 = = X = 0 1 = 1
12 Equinox 2.04     2956  5.5/15 40.50 0 = 0 = = = 1 0 = 0 = X = = = 0
13 Naum 4.6         3013  5.5/15 34.00 0 0 0 = 0 0 = = 0 = 1 = X = 1 =
14 Junior 13.3      2931  5.0/15 34.50 = 0 0 0 = = = 0 = = 0 = = X = =
15 Spike 1.4        2884  4.5/15 30.75 0 0 0 = = 0 0 = = = = = 0 = X =
16 Protector 1.6b14 2996  4.5/15 26.50 0 0 0 0 0 0 = = 1 0 0 1 = = = X