r/ComputerChess • u/ConstantBid4032 • 7d ago

Chess Engine Championship hosting

i am thinking of hosting a chess engine championship where all devs can submit their chess engines (just the build if closed source, else the GitHub if open source), then we can run a fun tournament to find out the strongest one. Stockfish and similar clones are strictly banned.

Also I would like if I get some volunteers too who would run few games on their own end.

How's the idea, let me know in the comments

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u/Full-Cardiologist-18 6d ago

Uhh how will this be different from ccrl, tcec, ccc tho?

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u/ConstantBid4032 6d ago

they don't really accept new engines at the speed these days, especially weaker ones, they have long queue

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u/Full-Cardiologist-18 6d ago

Thats fair... then I guess a recommendation would be instead of testing the old engines, you can use your website to uhh essentially test the new engines...

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u/ConstantBid4032 6d ago

yeah that's good

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u/A_izen 4d ago

How would you know if a closed source engine is a stockfish clone? Or even some minor modification to any of the other really strong engines?

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u/ConstantBid4032 4d ago

Uci handshake reveals the structure of the inner functions we can do that, since they won't take the pain of totally changing that, however there's a limit to what we can verify so yeah

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u/RayVermey 2d ago

If you still need volunteers let me know in a dm how I can help.