StockfishMZ 121225 wins Strong Engines Tournament (Tests by Jörn Gronemann, 2026.01.29)

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StockfishMZ 121225 claimed victory in the latest major tournament for top-tier chess engines. Stockfish dev-20260122 secured second place, followed by Kookaburra 3.11 in third. Another standout performance came from Reckless 0.9.0 dev-2a847427, which managed to outpace several Stockfish-based engines.

CEDR 804.617 games download (01.01.2026)
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 720 games 
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P Engine Score (Tie) +/-/=
1: StockfishMZ 121225 52.5 / 96 2493.75 (+10 -1 =85)
2: Stockfish dev-20260122 52.5 / 96 2488.75 (+10 -1 =85)
3: Kookaburra 3.11 51.0 / 96 2433.75 (+6 -0 =90)
4: Artemis 26.2TR PrO 50.5 / 96 2408.75 (+6 -1 =89)
5: Esox III 50.5 / 96 2408.00 (+5 -0 =91)
6: DarkSeid 7.7 EE 50.5 / 96 2406.25 (+7 -2 =87)
7: JigSaw 7.00 SuPreme 50.5 / 96 2403.00 (+7 -2 =87)
8: HypnoS 241225 50.0 / 96 2395.50 (+4 -0 =92)
9: CorChess 20260108 50.0 / 96 2390.00 (+5 -1 =90)
10: ShashChess 40 50.0 / 96 2380.75 (+5 -1 =90)
11: Brainlearn 31 49.5 / 96 2359.50 (+6 -3 =87)
12: Reckless 0.9.0 dev-2a847427 49.5 / 96 2359.25 (+5 -2 =89)
13: Tactical Titan 6.0 PrO 49.0 / 96 2341.75 (+5 -3 =88)
14: Raid 5.5 49.0 / 96 2340.25 (+3 -1 =92)
15: Hlamnick 080126 48.5 / 96 2326.75 (+1 -0 =95)
16: Stockfish 17.1 48.0 / 96 2299.50 (+1 -1 =94)
17: Obsidian dev-16.15 SE 47.5 / 96 2268.25 (+4 -5 =87)
18: PlentyChess Alamat 7.0.41 SE 47.0 / 96 2254.25 (+2 -4 =90)
19: Caissa 1.24 JA 46.0 / 96 2210.25 (+0 -4 =92)
20: Clover 9.1 JA 45.0 / 96 2152.00 (+3 -9 =84)
21: Alexandria 8.1.12 45.0 / 96 2147.25 (+2 -8 =86)
22: Berserk 20250606 44.5 / 96 2131.50 (+1 -8 =87)
23: Quanticade Cronus 3.0 42.5 / 96 2041.75 (+2 -13 =81)
24: Viridithas 19.0.1 41.0 / 96 1963.00 (+1 -15 =80)
25: Pawnocchio 1.9.2 40.0 / 96 1924.25 (+2 -18 =76)


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