Stockfish 18 wins Elite Engines Test by Jörn Gronemann, 2026.08.18

 

Stockfish 18 once again proved to be the best, outperforming 29 other engines by a wide margin. PlentyChess 8.0.0 JA took second place, while Coda 0.9.3 secured third.

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P	Engine	Score	(Tie)	+/-/=
1:	Stockfish 18	37.5 / 58	1047.25	(+17 -0 =41)
2:	PlentyChess 8.0.0 JA	34.0 / 58	941.25	(+10 -0 =48)
3:	Coda 0.9.3	32.5 / 58	904.25	(+7 -0 =51)
4:	Halogen 16.7.13	32.0 / 58	895.75	(+6 -0 =52)
5:	Reckless 0.10.0 JA	31.5 / 58	882.00	(+5 -0 =53)
6:	Cinder 0.6.0	31.5 / 58	877.00	(+5 -0 =53)
7:	Cinder 0.5.2	31.5 / 58	875.75	(+6 -1 =51)
8:	Stormphrax 8.0.0	31.5 / 58	873.75	(+7 -2 =49)
9:	Obsidian dev-16.15	31.5 / 58	869.50	(+8 -3 =47)
10:	Astra 7.0	31.0 / 58	866.75	(+4 -0 =54)
11:	Viridithas 20.0.0	31.0 / 58	857.75	(+6 -2 =50)
12:	Alexandria 9.0.0 JA	31.0 / 58	854.00	(+6 -2 =50)
13:	Berserk 14	30.5 / 58	849.75	(+4 -1 =53)
14:	RubiChess 01082026	30.5 / 58	847.75	(+4 -1 =53)
15:	Triumviratus 6.0	30.5 / 58	847.75	(+4 -1 =53)
16:	Dragon 3.3	30.5 / 58	847.25	(+4 -1 =53)
17:	Pawnocchio 3.0 dev-04b3b89	30.5 / 58	843.00	(+6 -3 =49)
18:	Caissa 1.26 JA	30.5 / 58	841.75	(+6 -3 =49)
19:	Quanticade Phoenix 4.0	30.0 / 58	833.25	(+4 -2 =52)
20:	Clover 9.1 JA	29.5 / 58	817.50	(+4 -3 =51)
21:	Raphael 4.3.0 dev-4a2c693	29.5 / 58	813.75	(+5 -4 =49)
22:	Devre 7.0 JA	29.0 / 58	804.25	(+3 -3 =52)
23:	Hobbes 3.0	29.0 / 58	801.75	(+4 -4 =50)
24:	Renegade 1.3.1	28.5 / 58	784.00	(+6 -7 =45)
25:	Rebel 16.5 EP-479	27.0 / 58	745.75	(+4 -8 =46)
26:	Fritz 21	26.5 / 58	734.75	(+2 -7 =49)
27:	Gaia 4.2.2	26.0 / 58	718.00	(+3 -9 =46)
28:	Arasan 26.0	24.0 / 58	655.00	(+3 -13 =42)
29:	Simpler 2.0.0	21.5 / 58	581.25	(+2 -17 =39)
30:	VeryChess 0.6.0	0.0 / 58	0.00	(+0 -58 =0)