AI Chess Leaderboard (Continuation): leaderboard

LLMs continue chess games from mid-game positions. Ranked by Elo rating derived from head-to-head matches across 211 evaluated models. Tests tactical calculation and endgame play from non-standard starting states.

Metric: Elo. Source: dubesor.de. Status: years away from saturation. 265 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Gemini 3 Pro (Preview)1810
2GPT-4.5 (Preview)1800
3Gemini 3.8 Flash1772
4Gemini 3.7 Flash1736
5Gemini 3 Flash (Preview)1720
6Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)1700
7Gemini 3.6 Flash1695
8Gemini 3.5 Flash1685
9GPT-4o ChatGPT1584
10Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite1522
11DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813)1502
12GPT-4o1493
13GPT-51471
14GPT-5 Chat1465
15GPT-5.51462

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=ai-chess-leaderboard-continuation · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-09-05.