GACL - 2x8 MiniChess: leaderboard

Game Agent Coding League: 2x8 MiniChess sub-benchmark. LLMs write code agents to play a simplified chess variant on a 2x8 board.

Metric: Normalized tournament points (0-100); source-selected best generated agent. Source: gameagentcodingleague.com. Saturation forecast: Around May 2027. 21 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-5.569.06#31
2GPT-5.467.4#79
3Claude Opus 4.660.21#63
4MiMo-V2.5-Pro52.08#158
5Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)50.83#58
6GLM-5.150.47#97
7GPT-5.4 Mini49.43#212
8Kimi K2.648.13#104
9Qwen 3.6 Max Preview45.47#85
10Claude Sonnet 4.643.8#90
11DeepSeek V4 Pro43.8#102
12Claude Opus 4.743.18#49
13Qwen 3.6 Plus40.42#120
14GPT-OSS-120B38.85#341
15Qwen 3.6 35B A3B38.13#226

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=gacl-2x8-minichess · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-20.