Breaking News (22.10.2026): For more fair cond., new "Size" tourneys organized Small, Medium, and Large. Btw, Corchess is Corchess...proves again to all of us that it's "One step ahead" As same words are going to "Stockfish" engine as well..Note also that as far as Possible newer vers. are participated, exc. some former Champions are played Again..sure for comparing..What I can add more? These kind of tours introduce That smaller engines can be stronger than bigger ones..but anyhow (in overall), It's clear that usually bigger engines (in size) are stronger than the smaller ones. As last; SIZE matters...but Think BIG, Dream BIG, and the RESULT will be BIG!
Small (Up to 45 MB) Size Champ: Stockfish - Congrats to Anton CES, SF Team! Note: Stockfish 200926 is a quite small engine... approx. 3.75 MB, just imagine !!
Rank Name Elo + - games score oppo. draws 1 Stockfish 200926 3801 8 8 1088 65% 3711 65% 2 Sedat 2026 3800 8 8 1088 65% 3712 63% 3 Obsidian 16.15 SE 3798 8 8 1088 64% 3712 65% 4 Alexandria 9.1.0 3790 8 8 1088 63% 3712 67% 5 Berserk 14 3771 8 9 1088 59% 3713 71% 6 Astra 7.0 3741 9 9 1088 54% 3715 69% 7 JustBot 0.5.0 3728 9 9 1088 52% 3716 72% 8 Devre 7.0 3718 9 9 1088 50% 3716 70% 9 Renegade 1.3.1 3709 9 9 1088 49% 3717 68% 10 Tcheran 14 3706 9 9 1088 48% 3717 70% 11 Minke 7.0.0 3703 9 9 1088 48% 3717 71% 12 Icarus 1.1.1 3700 9 9 1088 47% 3717 72% 13 PZChessBot 7.1 3696 9 9 1088 46% 3718 74% 14 Zangdar 7 3672 9 9 1088 42% 3719 66% 15 Arasan 26.1 3655 9 9 1088 39% 3720 65% 16 Avalanche 5.0.0 3644 9 8 1088 37% 3721 65% 17 Clarity 8.0.0 3633 8 8 1088 35% 3721 61% 18 Cataphract 1.5.1 3630 8 8 1088 35% 3722 59%
• Overall Draw Ratio: 67%,normal..likely due to not so close in strength engines----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Medium (45 MB - 90 MB) Size's Champion Stockfish- Congratulations to SF Team!
Rank Name Elo + - games score oppo. draws 1 Stockfish 141025 3829 7 7 1014 61% 3762 73% 2 Reckless 010926 3820 8 8 1014 60% 3763 75% 3 PlentyChess 8.0.5 3800 8 8 1014 56% 3764 77% 4 Pawnocchio 2.01 3789 8 8 1014 54% 3765 77% 5 Caissa 2.0 3787 8 8 1014 54% 3765 78% 6 Integral 8 3786 8 8 1014 53% 3765 77% 7 Viridithas 2.0 3778 8 8 1014 52% 3766 79% 8 Hobbes 3 3767 8 8 1014 50% 3767 77% 9 Gaiachess 4.4.3 3761 8 8 1014 49% 3767 77% 10 Stormphrax 8.0.0 3748 8 8 1014 47% 3768 76% 11 Quanticade 290926 3740 8 8 1014 45% 3769 75% 12 Raphael 4.2.0 3733 8 8 1014 44% 3770 72% 13 Tarnished 6.0 3726 8 8 1014 43% 3770 74% 14 Heimdall 1.5.1 3672 7 7 1014 32% 3774 58%
• Overall Draw Ratio: 75%, normal too...likely due not so close in strength engines----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Large (90 MB+) Size's Champion: CorChess - Congratulations to I. Ivec, SF Team!
Rank Name Elo + - games score oppo. draws 1 Corchess 300926 3849 4 5 1280 53% 3833 88% 2 Stockfish 171026 3847 4 5 1280 53% 3833 90% 3 Private19sf 3.10 3846 4 5 1280 53% 3833 90% 4 SF-Wald 111026 3844 5 5 1280 53% 3833 88% 5 Revolution 150926 3844 5 5 1280 52% 3833 88% 6 SF-PB 010726 3844 5 5 1280 52% 3833 89% 7 Raid 7.9 3843 5 5 1280 52% 3833 87% 8 DarkSisTer 17 3843 5 5 1280 52% 3833 89% 9 Artemis 47TR PrO 3843 5 5 1280 52% 3833 89% 10 Evolution 1.0 3843 5 5 1280 52% 3833 89% 11 Stockfish 19 3843 5 5 1280 52% 3833 90% 12 Hlamnick 011026 3842 5 5 1280 52% 3834 90% 13 SpecTral 17 3842 5 5 1280 52% 3834 87% 14 Horizon + 3841 5 5 1280 52% 3834 88% 15 Triumviratus 8 3839 5 5 1280 52% 3834 89% 16 SF-POLY 011026 3838 5 5 1280 51% 3834 90% 17 DON 121026 3835 5 5 1280 51% 3834 90% 18 Killfish 010426 3833 5 5 1280 50% 3834 87% 19 Coda 0.9.4 3805 4 4 1280 44% 3835 81% 20 Cinder 0.6.1 3790 3 3 1280 40% 3836 76% 21 CSTal 3.0.0 3758 3 3 1280 27% 3838 53%
• Overall Draw Ratio: 86%, a bit high..due to mainly SF-based engines are played
More Details: • Only Public Engines / Mostly Avx2 / Engine Learning OFF / Default EvalFiles • For max. stability and performance: HT (SMT) plus Large Page are Disabled • All of the tournament matches are played with Physical Core/s (not thread/s) • GUI Options - Concurrent Games 68, that means played at 53% CPU usage • All participated engines played (sure where possible) via move overhead: 100 • All engines played with a newer Unique suite ver (based on 2191 openings) For more fair conditions..each of the used opening line is repeated as twice• Calculated by Bayeselo Chess Program / Blue Name= Last Updated Engine• As usually, all of the tournament games are available (in PGN): SIZE CS III