CCC22 Blitz
The first event of the CCC22 series is the Blitz event. Rapid and Bullet will follow after, as well as a potential Classical Cup #2. The event began on December 17th.
Stockfish once again won the most recent event, with a score of 581/1000 against Torch in the CCC21 Bullet Finals. Viewers will be keeping a close eye on Torch and Leela, as Torch won the most recent Blitz against Leela, but lost the most recent Rapid event against Leela. Both results were razor thin margins.
This season will introduce one new engine, Obsidian, authored by Gabriele Lombardo. To make room, Winter, authored by FM Jonathan Rosenthal, has been placed on the sidelines. The decision on which engine to temporarily remove was based on rankings, and frequency of updates to the engine.
This event will feature the following matches. As the matches are played, this blog will be updated to link to the match, as well as indicate which engines are advancing further into the event. All engine placements are the results of seeding from the CCC21 Bullet.
Match 1: Entry League, will feature BlackMarlin, Equisetum, Velvet, Altair, Marvin, Smallbrain, Tucano, Stash, Weiss, Svart, WhiteCore, and Obsidian. The top-6 of these 12 will advance to the next set of games. The match will include a 3x DRR, spanning 396 games, and around 3 days.
Match 2: Qualifier #1, will feature Minic, Uralochka, Stormphrax, Arasan, Booot, Carp, and the qualifiers from Match 1. The top-6 of these 12 will advance to the next set of games. The match will include a 3x DRR, spanning 396 games, and around 3 days.
Match 3: Qualifier #2, will feature Rofchade, Igel, Seer, Clover, Revenge, Viridithas, and the qualifiers from Match 2. The top-4 of these 12 will advance to the next set of games. The match will include a 3x DRR, spanning 396 games, and around 3 days.
Match 4: Main, will feature Stockfish, Torch, Dragon, Berserk, Leela, Ethereal, Rubi, Caissa, and the top-4 from Match 3. The top-6 of these 12 will advance to the next set of games. The match will include a 5x DRR, spanning 660 games, and around 5 days.
Match 5: Semifinals, will feature the top-6 engines from Match 4. The winner will be seeded directly into the Finals. The 2nd and 3rd place engines will compete in a head-to-head for the final spot in the finals. The match will include a 30x DRR, spanning 900 games, and around 8 days.
Match 6: Challenger Match, will be a direct head-to-head of the 2nd and 3rd place engines from the Semifinals. The match will include a 250x DRR, spanning 500 games, and around 4 days.
Match 7: Finals, will be a direct head-to-head between the winner of the Semifinals, and the winner of the Challenger Match. The match will include a 250x DRR, spanning 500 games, and around 4 days.
Results:
Obsidian wins the Entry League, and will be promoted to the next event, along with BlackMarlin, Altair, Weiss, Equisetum, and Velvet, who took 2nd-6th place respectively in the 12-engine event.
Obsidian wins the Qualifier #1, and will be promoted to the next event, along with Stormphrax, Uralochka, Minic, Booot, and Altair.
Seer, Igel, and Obsidian tie to win the Qualifier #2, with unofficial tiebreaks giving Seer 1st, Igel 2nd, and Obsidian 3rd. Each engine, along with RofChade, will advance to the Main event.
Stockfish wins the Main Event, and will be promoted to the next event, along with Torch, Dragon, Leela, Berserk, and Ethereal.
Stockfish wins the Semifinals, and will be seeded directly into the Finals. Torch and Leela took 2nd and 3rd respectively, and will advance to the head-to-head Challenger Match.
Torch wins the Challenger Match against Leela, with a score of 273.0/500.0, and will advance to the Finals to play against Stockfish.
Stockfish wins the Finals against Torch with a score of 284.0/300.0. Stockfish won the previous CCC21 Blitz Finals with a score of 302.0/500.0
