TCEC Season-10: Who's the winner, really?

The 10th season of TCEC may have been the most interesting of all seasons. The three muskeeters met once again at the top and equally shared three available crowns. I'm not interested in constructing a spectacular article about which one is stronger. I just think they are very close to each other and generating an obvious difference seems very difficult between them, even with such extreme hardware used by TCEC organisers.

We've seen Houdini reaching 70 MNps in some starting positions and Stockfish floating around 55. It was impressive to see 43 threads running together. All that's left to do is to thank all TCEC team for the great show they delivered to chess lovers.

7-December-2017: Houdini 6.02 wins TCEC Tournament
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25-December-2017: Stockfish wins TCEC Rapid
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30-December-2017: Komodo wins TCEC Blitz
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By the way, you should not miss the great article published by Chessbase which included comments by the authors of Houdini and Komodo. A must read for all:
HOUDINI WINS THE TCEC SUPERFINAL

All games and crosstables available in the TCEC ARCHIVE BY CHESSDOM

Android UCI engine update: Sayuri 2017.12.16

Yet another arm5 build prepared by the author Hironori Ishibashi which didn't work for me.. I would be excited to hear someone can run it.

GET Sayuri 2017.12.16 for arm5

In case of trouble downloading from PC, use your mobile or refer to THIS POST.

Android UCI engine update: Cichess 1.9.20171213.ACH

For collectors only. There's already a more recent release to share.

GET Cichess 1.9.20171213.ACH for arm7 and arm8

In case of trouble dowloading from PC, use your mobile or refer to THIS POST.

Android UCI engine update: Brainfish 2017.12.12.ACH

The engine:
GET Brainfish 2017.12.12.ACH for arm7 and arm8

Cerebellum book at Chesstroid repository:

GET Cerebellum Light 2017.11.01 (45 MB compressed)

How to setup Cerebellum book:

"To use the book Cerebellum_Light_Poly.bin (download the latest version of this book from the official site in polyglot format), create a book folder in the phone's memory and put a book in it. The path should look like this: /sdcard/book/Cerebellum_Light_Poly.bin, when the engine starts the book connects automatically."

In case of trouble downloading from PC, use your mobile or refer to THIS POST.

Android UCI engine update: Senpai 2.0.AP

It's been a while since Fabien Letouzey, the father of the legendary Fruit had introduced Senpai. The second version of the engine confirms that Fabien did not leave the scene yet. It's a full rewrite of the engine.

Thanks go this time to long time vanishing Aprijal Pasaribu for porting it to Android. We truly worried about why he suddenly ceased preparing Android builds of many engines after seeing his blog stays silent since May-2017. Fortunately, now we know that he's safe and sound. I hope he returns back to Android as soon as possible.

GET. Senpai 2.0.AP for arm7 and arm8

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Android UCI engine update: Cfish 2017.12.13.ACH

For collectors only. More builds already followed before i share this one.

GET Cfish 2017.12.13.ACH for arm7 and arm8

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Android UCI engine update: Texel 1.08a5 by Peter Österlund

Texel 1.08a5, an alpha version which quickly followed a4, again by the author Peter Österlund. No big difference to expect this time.

GET Texel 1.08a5.PO for arm7 and arm8

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