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Stockfish 18 wins Elite Engines Test by Jörn Gronemann, 2026.08.23

 

Stockfish 18 came out on top in the latest Elite Chess Engines tournament, with PlentyChess 8.0.0 JA finishing second and Reckless 0.10.0 JA taking third place.

CEDR 903.628 games download (30.06.2026)

🕒🕒Time 3'+3"   Tournament download with 1050 games 
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GPU NVIDIA  RTX 3060 ti. GUI-Myracle, For Every Engine only 1 CPU and 512 Hashtables, 
Book - 3 mv book,  6TBs.

P Engine Score (Tie) +/-/=
1: Stockfish 18 76.0 / 140 5270.75 (+14 -2 =124)
2: PlentyChess 8.0.0 JA 75.0 / 140 5204.75 (+10 -0 =130)
3: Reckless 0.10.0 JA 73.5 / 140 5112.75 (+8 -1 =131)
4: Coda 0.9.3 71.5 / 140 4985.75 (+7 -4 =129)
5: Pawnocchio 3.0 dev-04b3b89 71.5 / 140 4985.50 (+7 -4 =129)
6: Cinder 0.6.1 71.0 / 140 4948.00 (+6 -4 =130)
7: Coda 0.9.4 70.5 / 140 4926.50 (+5 -4 =131)
8: Hobbes 3.0 70.5 / 140 4924.75 (+6 -5 =129)
9: Viridithas 20.0.0 70.0 / 140 4891.50 (+5 -5 =130)
10: Stormphrax 8.0.0 69.5 / 140 4857.25 (+6 -7 =127)
11: Alexandria 9.0.0 JA 69.0 / 140 4824.00 (+5 -7 =128)
12: Obsidian dev-16.15 69.0 / 140 4818.00 (+7 -9 =124)
13: Berserk 14 66.0 / 140 4642.00 (+2 -10 =128)
14: Caissa 1.26 JA 66.0 / 140 4626.75 (+4 -12 =124)
15: Integral 7.0.0 61.0 / 140 4287.25 (+3 -21 =116)


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