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Stockfish 17.1 wins Chess Engines Tournament for MacOS, 2025.12.07

 


Stockfish 17.1 won the latest macOS chess engine tournament. Blue Marlin 15.5 took second place, and Stockfish dev-20251114 took third.

As you can see from the table, a large number of new engines that haven't been tested yet participated in the tournament.


Time: 3'+3", GUI-Banksia, Intel Core i5, 8 GB Memory , macOS

650 Tournament games download, Table created: Banksia
All 7.386 games for MacOS download

P Engine Score (Tie) +/-/=
1: Stockfish 17.1 45.0 / 50 1007.50 (+40 -0 =10)
2: Blue Marlin 15.5 44.5 / 50 986.50 (+39 -0 =11)
3: Stockfish dev-20251114 44.0 / 50 960.50 (+38 -0 =12)
4: Dragon 3.1 by Komodo 44.0 / 50 958.00 (+39 -1 =10)
5: Kookaburra 1.03 43.5 / 50 942.25 (+38 -1 =11)
6: Booot 7.4 41.5 / 50 869.50 (+35 -2 =13)
7: Black Marlin 8.0 36.5 / 50 677.25 (+32 -9 =9)
8: McBrain 9 35.0 / 50 617.75 (+32 -12 =6)
9: Avalanche 2.1.0 31.0 / 50 510.50 (+27 -15 =8)
10: Leorik 3.1 31.0 / 50 506.00 (+26 -14 =10)
11: Schneckbert 3.0 31.0 / 50 504.00 (+26 -14 =10)
12: Lynx 1.11.0 30.0 / 50 487.75 (+25 -15 =10)
13: Senpai 2.0 26.5 / 50 373.50 (+23 -20 =7)
14: Critter 1.6a 25.0 / 50 332.00 (+22 -22 =6)
15: Prune 2.1.1 24.5 / 50 326.25 (+22 -23 =5)
16: Dog 4.10 22.0 / 50 264.75 (+18 -24 =8)
17: Asymptote 0.6 20.0 / 50 205.00 (+18 -28 =4)
18: Fornax 4.0 16.5 / 50 157.75 (+14 -31 =5)
19: Fridolin 3.10 15.0 / 50 107.00 (+14 -34 =2)
20: Rengar 1.0.1 13.0 / 50 81.00 (+11 -35 =4)
21: Byte-knight 2.0.0 8.0 / 50 36.75 (+6 -40 =4)
22: Zevra 1.6.2 r536 8.0 / 50 31.50 (+8 -42 =0)
23: Chers 0.8.0 5.5 / 50 20.00 (+5 -44 =1)
24: C3 1.0.0 5.0 / 50 15.00 (+5 -45 =0)
25: Eques 1.0.0 4.0 / 50 13.00 (+3 -45 =2)
26: Algae 1.0 0.0 / 50 0.00 (+0 -50 =0)


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