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Stockfish dev-20260318 wins Elite Engines Tournament, (Tests by Jörn Gronemann, 2026.03.27)

 


In the latest tournament of top chess engines featuring 30 competitors, Stockfish dev-20260318 came out on top. Hlamnick 200326 secured second place, while Artemis 28.2TR PrO took third. Surprisingly, the commercial engine Dragon 3.3 finished far back in 25th place.

CEDR 837.643 games download (01.03.2026)

🕒🕒Time 3'+3"   Tournament download with 870 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: Stockfish dev-20260318 33.5 / 58 951.75 (+10 -1 =47)
2: Hlamnick 200326 33.0 / 58 944.50 (+8 -0 =50)
3: Artemis 28.2TR PrO 32.5 / 58 929.00 (+7 -0 =51)
4: Sky Mini MPV 32.0 / 58 917.00 (+7 -1 =50)
5: Wordfish 4.50 190326 32.0 / 58 915.25 (+7 -1 =50)
6: Killfish PB 260126 32.0 / 58 913.00 (+6 -0 =52)
7: Stockfish 18 JA 32.0 / 58 909.75 (+6 -0 =52)
8: DarkSeid 10.6 SE 31.5 / 58 896.75 (+7 -2 =49)
9: ShashChess 41 31.0 / 58 889.00 (+4 -0 =54)
10: ShashChess 41 GoldDigger 31.0 / 58 878.75 (+7 -3 =48)
11: PlentyChess 7.0.55 30.5 / 58 880.25 (+4 -1 =53)
12: Revolution 5.10 090326 30.5 / 58 875.00 (+3 -0 =55)
13: Reckless 0.10.0 30.5 / 58 868.50 (+7 -4 =47)
14: DON dev-20260302 30.5 / 58 865.50 (+7 -4 =47)
15: Brainlearn 31 30.0 / 58 859.50 (+5 -3 =50)
16: Raid 6.1 30.0 / 58 855.75 (+4 -2 =52)
17: Kookaburra 3.11 28.5 / 58 819.25 (+2 -3 =53)
18: Integral 7.0.0 JA 28.5 / 58 816.25 (+4 -5 =49)
19: Tarnished 5.0 (Hero) 28.5 / 58 816.00 (+2 -3 =53)
20: RubiChess 20260308 28.0 / 58 803.75 (+1 -3 =54)
21: Alexandria 9.0.0 JA 28.0 / 58 801.50 (+2 -4 =52)
22: Caissa 1.24 JA 28.0 / 58 794.75 (+3 -5 =50)
23: Pawnocchio 1.9.2 27.0 / 58 774.25 (+2 -6 =50)
24: Motor 0.9.0 26.5 / 58 764.00 (+1 -6 =51)
25: Dragon 3.3 26.5 / 58 759.75 (+1 -6 =51)
26: Halogen 16.4.0 26.5 / 58 756.75 (+3 -8 =47)
27: Quanticade Cronus 3.0 26.0 / 58 734.75 (+5 -11 =42)
28: Clover 9.1 JA 25.5 / 58 728.75 (+1 -8 =49)
29: Horsie 1.1.0 JA 24.0 / 58 692.75 (+0 -10 =48)
30: PZChessBot 6.0 JA 16.0 / 58 466.75 (+0 -26 =32)

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