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Stockfish 16.1 wins Strong Engines Tournament (Tests by Jörn Gronemann, 2024.09.04)

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And another big test tournament of the most powerful chess engines. 30 engines, 1740 games!
The official version of Stockfish 16.1 won. The SF-PRO 23.08.2024 engine had the same number of points, but had worse additional scoring.
Places 3-4 were taken by the JigSaw 5.9 and SF PB 200824 engines.
Dragon 3.3 is far behind Stockfish and its derivatives, and the best engine not based on Stockwish code is the Obsidian 13 engine.
We invite you to follow the site, more tournaments coming soon.
Jurek


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🕒🕒Time 3'+3"  1740 (!) tournaments games download 
💾 All games CEDR 429.636 games download 01.09.2024  
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P Engine Score (Tie) +/-/=
1: Stockfish 16.1 68.0 / 116 3842.75 (+21 -1 =94)
2: SF-PRO 23.8.24 68.0 / 116 3837.25 (+22 -2 =92)
3: JigSaw v5.9 67.5 / 116 3828.75 (+19 -0 =97)
4: SF PB 200824 67.5 / 116 3794.25 (+21 -2 =93)
5: CorChess 20240823 67.0 / 116 3806.75 (+18 -0 =98)
6: Artemis TR 67.0 / 116 3781.25 (+19 -1 =96)
7: Stockfish Ivtec 20240820 66.5 / 116 3754.25 (+19 -2 =95)
8: Kookaburra 3.00 66.0 / 116 3741.75 (+17 -1 =98)
9: Yuliana 5.0 65.5 / 116 3696.75 (+17 -2 =97)
10: Deep Blue-20240518 65.0 / 116 3690.25 (+14 -0 =102)
11: Rems MPV 150824 64.0 / 116 3637.50 (+13 -1 =102)
12: Marauders 3.8 63.5 / 116 3621.25 (+12 -1 =103)
13: Raid 3.6 TR 63.5 / 116 3608.00 (+13 -2 =101)
14: HypnoS legacy 180824 63.5 / 116 3586.50 (+17 -6 =93)
15: YuliGM STRONG 180824 62.0 / 116 3530.50 (+12 -4 =100)
16: Dragon 3.3 61.5 / 116 3479.25 (+14 -7 =95)
17: Berserk 13 59.5 / 116 3312.50 (+15 -12 =89)
18: Obsidian 13.0 57.0 / 116 3228.25 (+11 -13 =92)
19: Ethereal 14.25 55.5 / 116 3135.50 (+8 -13 =95)
20: PlentyChess 3.0.0 55.0 / 116 3136.25 (+5 -11 =100)
21: Caissa 1.20 53.0 / 116 2991.00 (+6 -16 =94)
22: Motor 0.7.0 50.0 / 116 2881.75 (+2 -18 =96)
23: Chess-System-Tal-2 48.5 / 116 2794.75 (+1 -20 =95)
24: Clover 7.1 JA 47.0 / 116 2656.00 (+4 -26 =86)
25: Viridithas 14.0.0 46.0 / 116 2616.25 (+3 -27 =86)
26: Titan 1.1.0 46.0 / 116 2593.50 (+4 -28 =84)
27: Uralochka 3.41a JA 46.0 / 116 2589.75 (+5 -29 =82)
28: Velvet v8.0.0 44.0 / 116 2485.25 (+4 -32 =80)
29: Peacekeeper 3.01 43.5 / 116 2480.75 (+1 -30 =85)
30: Vafra 14.12.2 Stockfish 43.0 / 116 2460.50 (+4 -34 =78)



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