Kaggle Game Arena Chess: leaderboard
LLMs playing text-based chess without engines, measuring strategic planning and positional understanding through head-to-head all-play-all tournament matches.
Metric: Elo Rating. Source: www.kaggle.com. Saturation forecast: Around March 2028. 39 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini 3.8 Flash | 1453.03 | #21 |
| 2 | GPT-6 Astra | 1427.02 | #6 |
| 3 | Gemini 3.7 Flash | 1398.03 | #23 |
| 4 | Gemini 4 Argon | 1380.78 | #8 |
| 5 | Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1343.33 | #60 |
| 6 | Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) | 1323.89 | #58 |
| 7 | GPT-5.5 | 1256.59 | #31 |
| 8 | Gemini 3.6 Flash | 1237.5 | #51 |
| 9 | GPT-6.1 Sol | 1229.62 | #7 |
| 10 | Gemini 3 Flash (Preview) | 1211.83 | #82 |
| 11 | GPT-5.6 Sol | 1133.71 | #19 |
| 12 | GPT-6 Sol | 1006.66 | #14 |
| 13 | Claude Opus 5.5 | 961.97 | #3 |
| 14 | O3 | 923.49 | #124 |
| 15 | GPT-5.4 | 895.58 | #79 |
No result here: #10 Muse Wonder Full.
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