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Wordfish 3.80 wins New Engines Test, 2026.01.18-20

Four engines finished level on points in consecutive tournaments featuring new engine versions. The final rankings were decided by the Sonneborn-Berger tie-break system: 1st place – Wordfish 3.80, 2nd place – Stockfish dev-20260118, 3rd place – Reckless 0.9.0 dev-2a847427, and 4th place – Revolution 4.50.

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P Engine Score (Tie) +/-/=
1: Wordfish 3.80 26.5 / 34 358.25 (+21 -0 =11)
2: Stockfish dev-20260118 26.5 / 34 357.25 (+21 -0 =11)
3: Reckless 0.9.0 dev-2a847427 26.5 / 34 355.50 (+21 -0 =11)
4: Revolution 4.50 26.5 / 34 353.75 (+21 -0 =11)
5: Stockfish dev-20260101 25.0 / 34 334.25 (+18 -0 =14)
6: Pawnocchio 1.9.1 25.0 / 34 320.50 (+20 -2 =10)
7: Leorik 3.2 19.5 / 34 213.50 (+14 -7 =11)
8: Critter 1.6a 18.0 / 34 171.75 (+14 -10 =8)
9: RukChess 4.2.0 JA 16.5 / 34 141.00 (+14 -13 =5)
10: Lozza 10 16.0 / 34 141.50 (+12 -12 =8)
11: Prune 3.1.0 15.0 / 34 120.25 (+12 -14 =6)
12: Chess-3 v3.0 10.5 / 34 52.75 (+10 -21 =1)
13: Gyatso 1.1.0 9.0 / 34 38.00 (+8 -23 =2)
14: Chessnut 1.0 5.0 / 34 12.00 (+5 -27 =0)
15: Kreveta 2.2.2 3.5 / 34 6.50 (+2 -28 =3)
16: Anodos 1.1.0 3.0 / 34 8.25 (+2 -28 =2)
17: RuthIron 18.9.6 *crash 1.0 / 34 6.25 (+0 -0 =2)
18: Bytechess 1.3 1.0 / 34 3.25 (+0 -30 =2)


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