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Tactical Titan 5.9 PrO wins TOP Engines Test, 2025.12.02-07

These are the results of a special tournament featuring chess engines that are ranked highly in our CEDR system, despite not being the most powerful overall.

For example, Stockfish 20241208 competed, and its second-place finish was a significantly better result than that achieved by Stockfish 17.1. This performance validates it as a successful, high-performing build.

Reckless 0.8.0 also participated, and it marginally outperformed the latest version of the engine, Reckless 0.9.0 dev.967b.

The final podium finishers were: 1. Tactical Titan 5.9 PrO, 2. Stockfish 20241208, and 3. SF-PRO2 02.05.2025.

 CEDR 788.872 games download (01.12.2025)

💾 Tournament download with 364 games
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P Engine CEDR Score (Tie) Chg +/-/=
1: Tactical Titan 5.9 PrO 3754 30.0 / 52 753.25 +26 (+11 -3 =38)
2: Stockfish 20241208 3759 29.5 / 52 757.25 +21 (+8 -1 =43)
3: SF-PRO2 02.05.2025 3759 28.5 / 52 722.50 +10 (+8 -3 =41)
4: SF-Poly 011225 3755 28.5 / 52 720.25 +10 (+8 -3 =41)
5: Obsidian 16.15 SE 3737 28.0 / 52 722.25 +26 (+8 -4 =40)
6: Revolution 3.60 221125 3750 28.0 / 52 715.75 +10 (+9 -5 =38)
7: Stockfish 17.1 3751 27.5 / 52 706.25 +5 (+4 -1 =47)
8: DarkSeid 7.4 EE 3758 26.5 / 52 677.00 -10 (+4 -3 =45)
9: Raid 5.1 3753 25.5 / 52 651.25 -16 (+5 -6 =41)
10: Obsidian 15.14 3737 25.0 / 52 643.50 -5 (+6 -8 =38)
11: Reckless 0.8.0 3728 24.0 / 52 613.50 -10 (+4 -8 =40)
12: Reckless 0.9.0 dev.967b 3728 23.0 / 52 593.00 -21 (+3 -9 =40)
13: RubiChess 231125 3700 22.0 / 52 566.25 -10 (+4 -12 =36)
14: RubiChess 20250606 JA 3700 18.0 / 52 476.50 -47 (+1 -17 =34)


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