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JigSaw 8.0 wins Strong Engines Tournament, Test: Jörn Gronemann, 2026.02.20


JigSaw 8.0 won the latest, very large tournament of powerful chess engines. Places 2-4 were taken by Hlamnick 080226, Brainlearn 31, and Stockfish 18.

CEDR 820.396 games download (01.02.2026)

🕒🕒Time 3'+3"   Tournament download with 1365 games 
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GPU NVIDIA  RTX 3060 ti. GUI-Banksia, For Every  Engine only 1 CPU and 512 Hashtables, 
 Book - 4 GM mvs    book,  6TBs.


P Engine Score (Tie) +/-/=
1: JigSaw 8.0 98.0 / 195 9551.25 (+1 -0 =194)
2-4 Hlamnick 080226 98.0 / 195 9550.50 (+1 -0 =194)
2-4 Brainlearn 31 98.0 / 195 9550.50 (+1 -0 =194)
2-4 Stockfish 18 98.0 / 195 9550.50 (+1 -0 =194)
5: Artemis 26.3TR PrO 97.5 / 195 9506.25 (+0 -0 =195)
6: CorChess 20260212 97.5 / 195 9506.25 (+0 -0 =195)
7: Revolution 4.80 120226 97.5 / 195 9506.25 (+0 -0 =195)
8: SF-PRO2 29-01-2025 97.5 / 195 9506.25 (+0 -0 =195)
9: ShashChess 40 97.5 / 195 9506.25 (+0 -0 =195)
10: DarkSeid v10.0 SE 97.5 / 195 9506.25 (+0 -0 =195)
11: Stockfish dev-20260218 97.5 / 195 9506.25 (+0 -0 =195)
12: Leptir Testpilot 97.5 / 195 9505.75 (+1 -1 =193)
13: Raid 5.7 97.0 / 195 9461.25 (+0 -1 =194)
14: DON dev-20260218 96.0 / 195 9370.50 (+0 -3 =192)

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