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Stockfish 17 vs Strong Engines (Tests by Jörn Gronemann, 2025.03.254)

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An interesting tournament featured Stockfish 17 against the top chess engines. Despite still being the strongest, Stockfish's advantage is shrinking. Further results will be posted on the website shortly.

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GPU NVIDIA  RTX 3060 ti. GUI-Banksia, For Every Engine only 1 CPU and 512 Hashtables, Book - 4 GM mvs book,  6TBs.

🕒🕒Time 3'+3"  600 tournaments games download  
💾 All games CEDR 599.651 games download (01.03.2025)  
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P Engine Score (Tie) +/-/=
1: Stockfish 17 113.0 / 200 10980.75 (+27 -1 =172)
2: Obsidian dev-15.04 103.0 / 200 10185.50 (+11 -5 =184)
3: PlentyChess 5.0.0 100.5 / 200 10015.00 (+9 -8 =183)
4: Alexandria-8.0.0 JA 99.5 / 200 9904.50 (+10 -11 =179)
5: Berserk 20250307b 94.0 / 200 9449.00 (+4 -16 =180)
6: Caissa 1.21.7 90.0 / 200 9150.75 (+3 -23 =174)

Interesting game:


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Alexandria-8.0.0 JA–Stockfish 171–0B30Big Engines1.165*25.03.2025
[%evp 0,153,18,5,57,41,41,31,59,52,43,34,37,21,21,27,34,35,49,77,56,71,61,35,73,58,56,49,41,41,37,36,71,89,66,59,88,81,78,64,57,50,62,73,68,43,72,48,59,49,45,80,94,81,75,54,83,64,70,78,112,110,108,39,41,46,27,39,38,30,73,78,99,82,100,97,111,83,79,108,101,100,89,100,102,108,112,112,99,99,94,98,95,93,108,63,100,115,137,118,144,118,144,160,160,171,143,143,149,191,185,207,208,261,348,305,307,315,337,345,450,609,526,537,544,571,600,600,1204,1198,1107,1335,1366,1366,1433,1463,1744,1711,2274,1532,1946,2321,2419,2607,28359,28368,2581,28851,29985,29986,29987,29990,29991,29992,29993,29994] 1.e4 c5 2.f3 c6 3.b5 e6 B30: Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rossolimo attack (without ...d6) 4.0-0 ge7 5.e1 + 15091 12130674 b6 70262 52129599 6.d4 + 18138 14371435 cxd4 4027 3008797 7.xd4 + 7724 5964360 xd4 7663 6023684 8.xd4 + 5591 4263776 c7 11474 8690043 9.e3 + 9880 6239138 g6 3775 2921298 10.d1 + 10600 6896251 c5 4968 3974321 11.c3 + 4939 4144021 e5 4140 3239689 12.xe5 + 5257 2945969 xe5 4686 3827168 13.xc5 + 8614 4462887 bxc5 7476 5867854 14.f4 + 5889 4437062 b8 5272 4264808 15.c3 + 5834 4610578 g6 5729 4520865 16.g3 + 9693 5646308 e7 8913 6859265 17.b3 + 5744 5722750 d6 5640 4392770 18.d2 + 4531 4480639 d8 4427 3451366 19.f2 + 13759 7909291 b7 13484 10045000 20.e2 + 8619 2781023 f8 3669 2862376 21.ad1 + 3685 3060974 h6 12278 8989911 22.e3 + 21616 20992689 g6 19758 14652410 23.a4 + 4443 3502919 bc8 11300 8469597 24.c4 + 4540 3244759 c6 4629 3666602 25.c3 + 3891 3810050 d7 8731 6738198 26.f3 + 6007 4773115 cd8 2898 2225939 27.e2 + 13626 9135979 a8 4802 3697705 28.h4 + 3000 3106707 h5 3345 2512584 29.d3 + 16165 16440412 f5 14956 11096568 30.f2 + 2640 2308380 h7 975 873254 31.e5 + 5065 4667420 xf3 4321 3869279 32.xf3 + 3140 3157862 dxe5 6486 7016419 33.xd7+ + 2522 2416284 xd7 540 475086 34.xd7+ + 3565 2932765 xd7 3327 2564871 35.fxe5 + 2588 3112177 g5 1717 1463865 36.a4 + 3320 1227088 c6 3418 3747587 37.b2 + 3288 3563100 gxh4 1666 2192432 38.gxh4 + 3101 3709373 f8 2340 3383331 39.d3 + 3647 2331293 g6 2073 1927431 40.g3 + 3479 1956777 h8 5705 4573503 41.f4 + 3424 3031973 d7 1193 1061353 42.xh5 + 3056 2136019 g6 1389 1233198 43.f4 + 1993 2019783 xe5 1547 1484992 44.h5 + 2588 2718462 a5 2484 2309792 45.h6 + 4366 2143443 f7 1945 1952644 46.h7 + 3024 2435090 e5 3879 3399990 47.d5 + 3211 3538118 f4+ 12909 10756390 48.g4 + 3309 2433838 e6 2223 2069625 49.a3 + 2489 3285986 h6+ 5375 4932316 50.f3 + 2613 2577486 f7 914 933465 51.e2 + 3650 2497958 h8 4523 4438660 52.c3 + 3092 3999041 f6 2774 2837936 53.e4+ + 2871 3263129 g7 1691 1756755 54.xc5 + 3003 1327840 f7 1263 1250196 55.b7 + 3339 3777379 g5 6576 6057099 56.xa5 + 2956 3055189 f3+ 3626 3158768 57.f2 4216 4741008 e4 3108 2576687 58.c5 3587 4576739 h3+ 1353 1319268 59.e3 1887 2396216 g5 4377 5448988 60.c6 2729 2248555 e6 3240 4445801 61.f2 2863 3524495 xh7 3042 3940851 62.b4 5401 2739636 g6 3009 4836238 63.b5 3436 4738332 c5 3000 4737641 64.c4 2793 4410835 d3+ 1432 2359179 65.f1 3475 3934225 f4 4294 8349612 66.c7 4211 3278716 e2 3225 6880937 67.c8 3202 3084221 g3+ 2707 3683979 68.f2 2698 4645697 h1+ M-10/41 2679 3387501 69.e1 3706 2386073 f2+ 2963 4220865 70.f1 2963 4603081 g3+ 428 638592 71.xf2 M+18/35 2652 6896303 f5 2554 4236506 72.e6+ M+11/39 5396 6448061 g5 935 1109119 73.xe4 M+10/41 4348 5591994 g7 M-7/49 5566 8053540 74.b6 M+7/55 3573 6789503 h5 M-6/55 779 1473992 75.e5 M+6/67 4402 9603609 f6 M-5/88 1018 2913313 76.b7 M+5/107 4431 18672026 g3 M-4/139 1445 2100050 77.xg3 adjudication by egtb M+4/256 1738 7925163 1–0
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