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Spirit 100825 wins Lucas - Strong Engines Tournament, 2025.08.23-25


Another major tournament of the best chess engines – 1,224 games.
The winner was the Spirit 100825 engine. The engines DarkZoryn 2.0, Artemis 17.8TR sl, and Stockfish-sfmodjo 1.0 shared 2nd-4th places.
The Halogen 14.16.1 engine also performed well.

 CEDR 705.417 games download (01.08.2025)

💾 Tournament download with 1224 games
💻HP ENVY i5-8250U 8GB RAM  🖬 GUI-Lucas Chess
👍 #chessenginesdiary Country - Poland, City - Malbork  🕓 Time 3'+3"

P Engine CEDR Score (Tie) Chg +/-/=
1: Spirit 100825 3750 71.5 / 136 4810.00 -14 (+7 -0 =129)
2-4: DarkZoryn 2.0 3745 71.0 / 136 4787.00 -14 (+6 -0 =130)
2-4: Artemis 17.8TR sl 3754 71.0 / 136 4787.00 -27 (+6 -0 =130)
2-4: Stockfish-sfmodjo 1.0 3759 71.0 / 136 4787.00 -41 (+6 -0 =130)
5-6: StockfishMZ 180825 3750 71.0 / 136 4780.75 -27 (+6 -0 =130)
5-6: Artemis 17.9TR sl 3754 71.0 / 136 4780.75 -27 (+6 -0 =130)
7: Tactical Titan v3 3755 70.5 / 136 4761.25 -41 (+5 -0 =131)
8: Crystal 9 d.20250802 JA 3750 70.5 / 136 4757.75 -27 (+5 -0 =131)
9: YuliGM Pro 20 3756 70.5 / 136 4757.75 -41 (+5 -0 =131)
10: DarkSeid 6.4 EE 3749 70.0 / 136 4728.50 -41 (+4 -0 =132)
11: Artemis 17.7TR sl 3754 70.0 / 136 4722.25 -41 (+5 -1 =130)
12: Stockfish dev-20250816 3759 70.0 / 136 4722.25 -54 (+4 -0 =132)
13: SF-POLY 200825 3750 69.5 / 136 4701.50 -41 (+4 -1 =131)
14: Claw 1.0-M 3750 69.0 / 136 4670.00 -41 (+2 -0 =134)
15: Halogen 14.16.1 3543 62.5 / 136 4261.75 +299 (+1 -12 =123)
16: PlentyChess 6.0.18 3721 62.5 / 136 4239.25 -41 (+4 -15 =117)
17: Alexandria 8.1.0 3720 62.5 / 136 4228.75 -41 (+3 -14 =119)
18: Cinder 0.3.1 3575 50.0 / 136 3442.50 +122 (+0 -36 =100)



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