Stockfish wins TCEC Season 9

With 16 wins, 69 draws, and 7 losses against Houdini, Stockfish is ahead 9 points with only 8 games left to play. While the Superfinals will continue until all 100 games have been played, this means that Stockfish is already the winner of Season 9 of TCEC.

The score shows Stockfish to be 34±18 Elo stronger (error bounds are 1 standard deviation) in TCEC's high performance, long time control setup. The Superfinals were played on a 44-core Xeon E5 system with 128 GB of RAM, using an opening book compiled by Jeroen Noomen.