KataGo-Bench-1K: leaderboard

Go next-move prediction benchmark with 1,000 19x19 board positions sampled from KataGo annotation data. Models read the move history and rendered board state, then output the next move; scoring is accuracy against KataGo candidate moves.

Metric: Next-move Accuracy (%). Source: github.com. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 11 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Claude 3.7 Sonnet34.3#249
2O1 Mini27.3#323
3DeepSeek R117.6#251
4Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct8#862
5Qwen 2.5 32B Instruct6.8#498
6DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B4.7#655
7Qwen 2.5 32B1.5#546
8Qwen 2.5 7B1.4#922
9DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B0.6#1415

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=katago-bench-1k · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-20.