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Stockfish 17.1 wins Strong engines Mini Test (CuteChess-QOL), 2026.02.17-18


Here are the results of the first chess engine tournament we ran using CuteChess-QOL.
Stockfish 17.1 won, and Stockfish 18 won the second.
Two games were not played – crashes.

CEDR 820.396 games download (01.02.2026)

💾 Tournament download with 80 games
💻 Asus Zenbook, AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX, RAM 32,0 GB  🖬 GUI - CuteChess-QOL
#chessenginesdiary Country - Poland, City - Malbork  🕓 Time 3'+3" 

Report: 60 games 2 games crash.

Alexandria 8.1.12 JA
"Draw by 3-fold repetition": 8
"Draw by adjudication: user decision": 1
"Draw by fifty moves rule": 1
"Draw by insufficient mating material": 5
"Loss: White mates": 3
"No result": 1
"Win: White mates": 1

Arasan 25.3 JA
"Draw by 3-fold repetition": 7
"Draw by fifty moves rule": 2
"Draw by insufficient mating material": 1
"Loss: Black loses on time": 1
"Loss: Black mates": 3
"Loss: White mates": 6

Hlamnick 080226
"Draw by 3-fold repetition": 11
"Draw by adjudication: user decision": 1
"Draw by fifty moves rule": 3
"Draw by insufficient mating material": 2
"No result": 1
"Win: Black mates": 1
"Win: White mates": 1

Lc0 0.32.1
"Draw by 3-fold repetition": 10
"Draw by adjudication: user decision": 2
"Draw by fifty moves rule": 2
"Draw by insufficient mating material": 1
"No result": 2
"Win: Black loses on time": 1
"Win: White mates": 2

Stockfish 17.1
"Draw by 3-fold repetition": 14
"Draw by insufficient mating material": 2
"Win: Black mates": 2
"Win: White mates": 2

Player: Stockfish 18
"Draw by 3-fold repetition": 14
"Draw by insufficient mating material": 3
 "Win: White mates": 3


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