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Stockfish 18 JA wins Strong Engines Tournament, (Tests by Jörn Gronemann, 2026.03.04)


Stockfish 18 JA has won another tournament of powerful chess engines. This build (by Jim Ablett) is faster than the original version. CorChess 20260227 took second place, while Reckless 0.9.0 finished third.

 CEDR 837.643 games download (01.03.2026)

🕒🕒Time 3'+3"   Tournament download with 918 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: Stockfish 18 JA 53.0 / 102 2696.50 (+4 -0 =98)
2: CorChess 20260227 52.5 / 102 2674.00 (+5 -2 =95)
3: Reckless 0.9.0 52.5 / 102 2670.75 (+5 -2 =95)
4: Brainlearn 31 52.0 / 102 2647.75 (+2 -0 =100)
5: Revolution 4.90 210226 52.0 / 102 2646.75 (+4 -2 =96)
6: DON dev-20260301 52.0 / 102 2645.75 (+4 -2 =96)
7: SF-PRO2 29.01.2025 52.0 / 102 2644.50 (+4 -2 =96)
8: Hlamnick 200226 51.5 / 102 2624.50 (+1 -0 =101)
9: Stockfish+ 1 51.5 / 102 2622.25 (+3 -2 =97)
10: DarkSeid 10.3 SE 50.5 / 102 2576.25 (+0 -1 =101)
11: Sky Mini MPV 50.5 / 102 2576.25 (+1 -2 =99)
12: Raid 6.0 50.5 / 102 2574.25 (+2 -3 =97)
13: Artemis 27TR PrO 50.5 / 102 2571.75 (+3 -4 =95)
14: ShashChess 40 50.0 / 102 2554.00 (+1 -3 =98)
15: Stockfish dev-20260228 50.0 / 102 2551.75 (+1 -3 =98)
16: PlentyChess 7.0.55 50.0 / 102 2550.00 (+2 -4 =96)
17: Alexandria 9.0.0 JA 49.5 / 102 2528.50 (+0 -3 =99)
18: Obsidian dev-16.15 SE 47.5 / 102 2431.00 (+3 -10 =89)

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