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Reckless 0.9.0 wins Elite Engines Tournament, (Tests by Jörn Gronemann, 2026.03.18)

 


Reckless 0.9.0 claimed another victory at the Elite Chess Engines tournament. Following behind were PlentyChess 7.0.55 in second and Viridithas 19.0.1 in third. Interestingly, the commercial engine Dragon 3.3 trailed behind in 11th place.

CEDR 837.643 games download (01.03.2026)
🕒🕒Time 3'+3"   Tournament download with 720 games 
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GPU NVIDIA  RTX 3060 ti. GUI-Banksia, For Every  Engine only 1 CPU and 512 Hashtables,  - 4 GM mvs, book,  6TBs.

P Engine Score (Tie) +/-/=
1: Reckless 0.9.0 53.0 / 90 2327.75 (+17 -1 =72)
2: PlentyChess 7.0.55 50.0 / 90 2211.75 (+11 -1 =78)
3: Viridithas 19.0.1 48.0 / 90 2126.00 (+7 -1 =82)
4: Berserk 20250606 48.0 / 90 2118.50 (+7 -1 =82)
5: Obsidian dev-16.15 SE 47.5 / 90 2124.25 (+7 -2 =81)
6: Alexandria 9.0.0 JA 47.5 / 90 2107.50 (+6 -1 =83)
7: Halogen 16.4.0 47.0 / 90 2100.25 (+7 -3 =80)
8: Clover 9.1 JA 45.5 / 90 2036.75 (+4 -3 =83)
9: Quanticade Cronus 3.0 45.5 / 90 2004.75 (+7 -6 =77)
10: Pawnocchio 1.9.2 44.5 / 90 1980.00 (+4 -5 =81)
11: Dragon 3.3 44.0 / 90 1955.75 (+7 -9 =74)
12: RubiChess 20260308 43.5 / 90 1949.25 (+3 -6 =81)
13: Tarnished 5.0 (Hero) 43.5 / 90 1924.75 (+7 -10 =73)
14: Hobbes 1.0 43.0 / 90 1924.75 (+2 -6 =82)
15: Alexander 8.1 37.5 / 90 1710.25 (+3 -18 =69)
16: PZChessBot v6.0 JA 32.0 / 90 1438.75 (+2 -28 =60)

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