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Official Stockfish pre-release: Stockfish dev-20250902

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Official prerelease Stockfish dev-20250902
Rating Chess Engines Diary CEDR=3761,4

Great news for chess enthusiasts! 
The pre-release version of Stockfish dev-20250902, widely recognized as the world's top chess engine, has been released. This brings us one step closer to the next official release. Our team is excited to begin testing it today, and we'll be sure to share the results on our website. Stay tuned!

What changes in the new Stockfish dev-20250902 version?

Add scaling note to STC/LTC tunes
It has been repeatedly shown that such tunes are suspectible to become
anti-scaling. Below are some recent examples:

https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/commit/2e91a8635468e40c89a2303ce50384864d088611
https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/commit/d11f49b790429c236a1a4169f0d8052635fc03dc

Passed STC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00>
Total: 32448 W: 8651 L: 8342 D: 15455
Ptnml(0-2): 81, 3695, 8408, 3914, 126
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/6899489b0049e8ccef9d64ad

Passed LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,2.50>
Total: 73854 W: 19042 L: 18649 D: 36163
Ptnml(0-2): 37, 7908, 20659, 8271, 52
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/689abbe7fd8719b088c8d514

Revert VVLTC with STC bound:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00>
Total: 53802 W: 14030 L: 13740 D: 26032
Ptnml(0-2): 5, 4924, 16754, 5212, 6
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/68a9a9f575da51a345a5a675

Revert VVLTC with LTC bound:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,2.50>
Total: 53658 W: 14022 L: 13699 D: 25937
Ptnml(0-2): 3, 4894, 16712, 5217, 3
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/68a8d2b2b6fb3300203bca77

https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/688cf38bf17748b4d23c8057
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/6890bc7792fcad741b804a19

Passed LTC:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,2.50>
Total: 74928 W: 19466 L: 19071 D: 36391
Ptnml(0-2): 37, 8048, 20901, 8439, 39

Failed Non-regression VLTC:
LLR: -2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <-1.75,0.25>
Total: 57704 W: 14643 L: 14928 D: 28133
Ptnml(0-2): 5, 5925, 17280, 5634, 8
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/6890bc7792fcad741b804a19

(Note that an STC-tuned version passed non-regression, but was shortly
simplified)

https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/6040

Passed STC:
LLR: 2.93 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00>
Total: 27776 W: 7352 L: 7054 D: 13370
Ptnml(0-2): 68, 3126, 7221, 3386, 87
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/680ec0f83629b02d74b1605b

Passed LTC:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,2.50>
Total: 161304 W: 41432 L: 40864 D: 79008
Ptnml(0-2): 61, 17305, 45357, 17863, 66
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/680ec7f93629b02d74b16084

Failed Non-regression VVLTC:
LLR: -2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <-1.75,0.25>
Total: 313466 W: 80573 L: 81089 D: 151804
Ptnml(0-2): 38, 29689, 97782, 29199, 25
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/6810d0533629b02d74b16756

https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5907
https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5887

Passed LTC with STC bounds:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/67b115dd6c6b9e172ad1592f
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00>
Total: 75756 W: 19393 L: 19044 D: 37319
Ptnml(0-2): 60, 8251, 20913, 8588, 66

Passed LTC with LTC bounds:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/67af5f5d6c6b9e172ad15765
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,2.50>
Total: 108126 W: 27880 L: 27412 D: 52834
Ptnml(0-2): 85, 11786, 29866, 12228, 98

Revert VVLTC w/ STC bounds:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00>
Total: 56342 W: 14536 L: 14246 D: 27560
Ptnml(0-2): 7, 5061, 17741, 5359, 3
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/67be4f8ad8d5c2c657c52d10

Revert VVLTC w/ LTC bounds:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,2.50>
Total: 66562 W: 17364 L: 17016 D: 32182
Ptnml(0-2): 3, 6145, 20637, 6493, 3
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/67bcd25ff6b602bd7222ea40

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/6284
no functional change

Stockfish dev-20250902 download (all files: stockfish-windows-armv8.exe, stockfish-windows-armv8-dotprod.exe, stockfish-windows-x86-64.exe, stockfish-windows-x86-64-avx2.exe, stockfish-windows-x86-64-avx512.exe, stockfish-windows-x86-64-avx512icl.exe, stockfish-windows-x86-64-avxvnni.exe, stockfish-windows-x86-64-bmi2.exe, stockfish-windows-x86-64-sse41-popcnt.exe, stockfish-windows-x86-64-vnni256.exe, stockfish-windows-x86-64-vnni512.exe  )

Here are some sample tournament wins for the Stockfish engine on Android and Windows::





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