Video-Arena - Agentic Claude Code chess: leaderboard

Video-Arena: 180 cases, 20 per game. Strict tuple F1 requires every non-temporal field to match and timestamps within 3 seconds; overall is the mean of nine game means. Paper v1 Appendix B.3 fixes high effort for OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini; Kimi/MiniMax use unspecified provider defaults. Qwen thinking modes remain distinct. Full MP4, Claude Code harness, at most 200 turns and 120 minutes per case. Metric: Strict tuple F1 (%).

Metric: Strict tuple F1 (%). Source: videoarena-bench.github.io. Saturation forecast: Around August 2027. 6 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Claude Opus 5 (High)63.2#13 (Claude Opus 5)
2Kimi K354.6#33
3MiniMax-M347.1#150
4Qwen 3.8 27B (Non-reasoning)26.3#112 (Qwen 3.8 27B)
5Qwen 3.5 122B A10B25.1#179

No result here: #5 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

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