Stockfish 18 wins Elite Engines Test by Jörn Gronemann, 2026.08.16

 

Stockfish 18 came out on top in the latest Elite Chess Engines tournament, but trailing by just half a point were five close contenders: Coda 0.9.3, Obsidian dev-16.15, Reckless 0.10.0 JA, PlentyChess 8.0.0 JA, and Viridithas 20.0.0.

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P	Engine	Score	(Tie)	+/-/=
1:	Stockfish 18	30.0 / 54	789.50	(+7 -1 =46)
2:	Coda 0.9.3	29.5 / 54	784.75	(+5 -0 =49)
3:	Obsidian dev-16.15	29.5 / 54	784.25	(+5 -0 =49)
4:	Reckless 0.10.0 JA	29.5 / 54	784.00	(+5 -0 =49)
5:	PlentyChess 8.0.0 JA	29.5 / 54	781.75	(+5 -0 =49)
6:	Viridithas 20.0.0	29.5 / 54	780.50	(+5 -0 =49)
7:	Halogen 16.7.13	29.0 / 54	773.25	(+4 -0 =50)
8:	Astra 7.0	29.0 / 54	765.75	(+5 -1 =48)
9:	Stormphrax 8.0.0	28.5 / 54	763.75	(+3 -0 =51)
10:	Triumviratus 6.0	28.5 / 54	760.50	(+3 -0 =51)
11:	Hobbes 3.0	28.0 / 54	748.50	(+2 -0 =52)
12:	Dragon 3.3	28.0 / 54	745.00	(+3 -1 =50)
13:	Pawnocchio 3.0 dev-04b3b89	28.0 / 54	744.25	(+3 -1 =50)
14:	Berserk 14	27.5 / 54	741.75	(+1 -0 =53)
15:	Fritz 21	27.5 / 54	738.75	(+1 -0 =53)
16:	Cinder 0.5.2	27.5 / 54	738.75	(+1 -0 =53)
17:	Raphael 4.3.0 dev-4a2c693	27.5 / 54	736.75	(+2 -1 =51)
18:	Alexandria 9.0.0 JA	27.5 / 54	734.75	(+2 -1 =51)
19:	Quanticade Phoenix 4.0	27.0 / 54	724.25	(+1 -1 =52)
20:	Caissa 1.26 JA	27.0 / 54	724.25	(+1 -1 =52)
21:	Clover 9.1 JA	27.0 / 54	720.50	(+3 -3 =48)
22:	Renegade 1.3.1	26.5 / 54	716.00	(+2 -3 =49)
23:	RubiChess 01082026	26.0 / 54	700.50	(+1 -3 =50)
24:	Devre 7.0 JA	26.0 / 54	697.00	(+1 -3 =50)
25:	Gaia 4.2.2	22.0 / 54	586.00	(+1 -11 =42)
26:	Rebel 16.5 EP-479	20.5 / 54	551.75	(+0 -13 =41)
27:	Arasan 26.0	20.0 / 54	536.50	(+0 -14 =40)
28:	Simpler 2.0.0	20.0 / 54	534.25	(+0 -14 =40)