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Stockfish 17.1 wins Strong Engines Tournament (Tests by Jörn Gronemann, 2025.08.23)


Stockfish 17.1 has emerged victorious in another tournament of the most powerful chess engines. DarkZoryn 2.0 secured second place, and Claw 1.0-M finished in third. The official Stockfish version maintains its strength, and the community eagerly anticipates the next official release.


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"   Tournament download with 480 games 
💾 All games CEDR 705.417 games download (01.08.2025)  
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P Engine Score (Tie) +/-/=
1: Stockfish 17.1 32.5 / 60 965.75 (+5 -0 =55)
2: DarkZoryn 2.0 31.5 / 60 939.75 (+3 -0 =57)
3: Claw 1.0-M 31.0 / 60 926.25 (+3 -1 =56)
4: SF-PRO2 02.05.2025 31.0 / 60 926.00 (+3 -1 =56)
5: StockfishMZ 180825 31.0 / 60 926.00 (+2 -0 =58)
6: SF-PRO 02.05.2025 31.0 / 60 925.25 (+2 -0 =58)
7: Tactical Titan v3 31.0 / 60 925.00 (+3 -1 =56)
8: ShashChess 39 30.5 / 60 912.25 (+1 -0 =59)
9: Kookaburra 3.10 30.5 / 60 907.00 (+4 -3 =53)
10: DarkSeid 6.5 EE 30.0 / 60 900.00 (+0 -0 =60)
11: YuliGM Pro 20 30.0 / 60 899.75 (+1 -1 =58)
12: Artemis 17.9TR sl 29.5 / 60 883.25 (+1 -2 =57)
13: PlentyChess 6.0.18 29.5 / 60 883.00 (+1 -2 =57)
14: Obsidian dev-16.14 27.5 / 60 825.75 (+2 -7 =51)
15: Berserk 20250622 27.0 / 60 813.75 (+2 -8 =50)
16: Integral 7.0.0-dev JA 26.5 / 60 799.25 (+0 -7 =53)


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