Hello chessfriends and welcome to the season 17 of the TCEC. The tournament starts with a Qualification League where all newcomers will be featured, including new AB engines and Neural Networks. The best engines of the Qualification League will promote to League 2 and then to the League 1 and finally, the best placed 2 engines from League 1 will qualify for the Premier Division. The best two engines of the Premier division will play then in the superfinal. In the last season LC ZERO won the tournament and now all the engines have improved and we will have the best engine chess tournament in history.
Today I wanted to show you a great game by Stockfish against Stoofvlees in the positional Ruy Lopez opening.
HERE IS THE PGN OF THE GAME:
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. a4 Bb7 9. d3 d6 10. Nbd2 Na5 11. Ba2 c5 12. Nf1 bxa4 13. Bg5 Rb8 14. Bd2 Bc8 15. Ne3 Bd7 16. Bb1 h6 17. Bc3 Kh8 18. Nd2 Ng8 19. Nf3 Nb7 20. Bd2 Qc8 21. Ra3 Bd8 22. c3 Na5 23. Bc2 Nb3 24. Bxb3 axb3 25. Rxb3 a5 26. Rxb8 Qxb8 27. Qc2 Ne7 28. Rb1 Qa7 29. Ra1 f5 30. Be1 f4 31. Nc4 Bg4 32. Nfd2 f3 33. Qd1 Bh5 34. h3 Qd7 35. Ne3 Kh7 36. b3 c4 37. Ndxc4 Rf4 38. g3 Qxh3 39. Bd2 Be8 40. Qf1 Qh5 41. gxf4 exf4 42. Nf5 Ng6 43. Ncxd6 Bd7 44. c4 Be7 45. c5 Bh4 46. Ra2 a4 47. Bc3 axb3 48. Rb2 Ne7 49. Rxb3 Qg4+ 50. Kh1 Ba4 51. Rb7 Bc6 52. Rc7 Bg3 53. Bf6 Qh5+ 54. Bh4 Bd5 55. Rxe7 Bxh4 56. Qh3 Bf7 57. Rxf7 Kh8 58. Rxg7 Qxf5 59. Qxf5 Kxg7 60. Qf7+ Kh8 1-0
