Reckless, a chess engine written in Rust, has made it to the final of TCEC season 29 and will battle Stockfish for first place

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Reckless, a chess engine written in Rust, has made it to the final of TCEC season 29 and will battle Stockfish for first place - Lemmy.World

TCEC is a computer chess engine tournament where chess engines compete in long time controls on strong hardware. Every game is played from a slightly uneven starting position (“book moves”), to avoid all games ending in a draw. In order to make this fair, the engines play each starting position twice, once with the white piece and once with the black pieces. Reckless won League 1, got second place in the Premier Division, and will now play 100 games in the Superfinal against Stockfish (who has won the last 11 Seasons…). Time controls are 120’+12". * Reckless: https://github.com/codedeliveryservice/Reckless [https://github.com/codedeliveryservice/Reckless] * TCEC: https://tcec-chess.com/ [https://tcec-chess.com/] * List of engines competing in season 29 [https://wiki.chessdom.org/TCEC_Leagues_Season_29_Engines] * Tournament rules [https://wiki.chessdom.org/TCEC_Leagues_Season_Rules]

Reckless breaks a duopoly in a historic computer chess shake-up – Chessdom

For years, the top tier of computer chess has been defined by a familiar rivalry: Stockfish versus Leela Chess Zero. But in a dramatic and unexpected turn, that era has just been disrupted. For the first time in many seasons, the prestigious Top Chess Engine Championship Superfinal will not feature the long-standing clash between those […]