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Obsidian dev-16.15 SE wins Elite Engines Tournament, (Tests by Jörn Gronemann, 2026.04.05)

 


Obsidian dev-16.15 SE claimed victory in yet another elite chess engine tournament. Stockfish 18 JA secured second place, followed by Reckless 0.10.0 dev-6abcff05 in third. It appears that this latest Reckless build didn't quite live up to expectations.

CEDR 855.782 games download (01.04.2026)

🕒🕒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: Obsidian dev-16.15 SE 60.0 / 102 2989.25 (+20 -2 =80)
2: Stockfish 18 JA 58.5 / 102 2921.25 (+16 -1 =85)
3: Reckless 0.10.0 dev-6abcff05 57.5 / 102 2873.50 (+15 -2 =85)
4: Alexandria 9.0.0 JA 57.0 / 102 2861.00 (+12 -0 =90)
5: PlentyChess 7.0.65 56.5 / 102 2822.00 (+12 -1 =89)
6: Berserk 20250606 52.0 / 102 2610.75 (+9 -7 =86)
7: Pawnocchio 2.0 dev-a8f09e7 52.0 / 102 2598.75 (+7 -5 =90)
8: Integral 7.0.0 JA 51.5 / 102 2617.50 (+4 -3 =95)
9: Viridithas 19.0.1 51.5 / 102 2554.75 (+10 -9 =83)
10: Tarnished 5.0 (Hero) 50.5 / 102 2558.00 (+4 -5 =93)
11: Quanticade Cronus 3.0 50.5 / 102 2553.25 (+5 -6 =91)
12: Clover 9.1 JA 50.5 / 102 2540.25 (+7 -8 =87)
13: Halogen 16.4.0 50.5 / 102 2533.00 (+7 -8 =87)
14: Caissa 1.24 JA 50.5 / 102 2527.00 (+9 -10 =83)
15: Dragon 3.3 48.0 / 102 2426.50 (+7 -13 =82)
16: Horsie 1.1.0 JA 45.5 / 102 2314.25 (+2 -13 =87)
17: Motor 0.9.0 42.0 / 102 2124.25 (+3 -21 =78)
18: Alexander 8.3 33.5 / 102 1716.75 (+2 -37 =63)

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