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Stockfish 18 vs New Strong Engines by Jörn Gronemann, 2026.07.06

 

Another tournament where Stockfish 18 tests the strength of new versions of powerful chess engines. As you can see in the table, Reckless 0.10.0 performed best.

CEDR 903.628 games download (01.07.2026)
🕒🕒Time 3'+3"   Tournament download with 560 games 
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GPU NVIDIA  RTX 3060 ti. GUI-Myracle, For Every Engine only 1 CPU and 512 Hashtables, 
Book - 4 GM mvs, book,  6TBs. 

P Engine Score (Tie) +/-/=
1: Stockfish 18 74.0 / 140 5131.50 (+9 -1 =130)
2: Reckless 0.10.0-dev 73.0 / 140 5067.75 (+8 -2 =130)
3: Stormphrax 8.0.0 71.5 / 140 4986.25 (+5 -2 =133)
4: PlentyChess 8.0.0 71.5 / 140 4985.50 (+5 -2 =133)
5: Pawnocchio 3.0 dev-1bca805 69.0 / 140 4837.00 (+2 -4 =134)
6: Berserk 14 67.5 / 140 4744.75 (+1 -6 =133)
7: Viridithas 20.0.0 67.0 / 140 4708.75 (+3 -9 =128)
8: Cinder 0.5.0 66.5 / 140 4680.50 (+1 -8 =131)


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