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Chess Puzzles

Epoch AI / Reasoning · Finds correct moves from textual chess positions

Official evaluation
Across NexGateHub AI News Ranked
Evidence budget1.8%
Upstream data time10/16 06:52
Last successful sync10/18 14:05

What it measures and how

Generated positions are judged against Stockfish answers. Input is position text, so this is not visual understanding.

How this evidence is used

Ranked; related question families share a fixed budget.

Evaluation results

Fixed rules select one representative configuration per public model. Anonymous test models are omitted. Original ranks are retained, with up to 30 models per evaluation.

Source rankSource model nameRaw resultRepresentative configuration
2gpt-6-astra_maxOpenAI74.0%Max reasoning
3gpt-6.1-sol_maxopenai68.0%Max reasoning
5claude-opus-5-5_maxAnthropic67.0%Max reasoning
6gemini-3.7-flash_highGoogle66.0%High reasoning
7gpt-5.5_xhighOpenAI63.0%xHigh reasoning
8gpt-5.5-pro_xhighOpenAI62.0%xHigh reasoning
9gpt-5.2-pro-2025-12-11_xhighOpenAI60.0%xHigh reasoning
10gpt-5.6-sol_maxOpenAI59.0%Max reasoning
10gpt-5.4-pro-2026-03-05_xhighOpenAI59.0%xHigh reasoning
10gemini-4-argon_highgoogle59.0%High reasoning
10claude-sonnet-5-5_maxanthropic59.0%Max reasoning
14gemini-3.8-flash_highGoogle58.0%High reasoning
15gpt-6-sol_maxOpenAI56.0%Max reasoning
16claude-haiku-5-5_max—55.0%Max reasoning
17claude-opus-4-8_maxAnthropic52.0%Max reasoning
18gemini-3.1-pro-preview_highGoogle51.0%High reasoning
19claude-fable-5-1_maxAnthropic48.0%Max reasoning
19deepseek-v4.1-flash_maxDeepSeek48.0%Max reasoning
19gpt-5.4-2026-03-05_xhighOpenAI48.0%xHigh reasoning
19gpt-5-pro-2025-10-06_highOpenAI48.0%High reasoning
19gpt-5.2-2025-12-11_xhighOpenAI48.0%xHigh reasoning
24claude-fable-5_maxAnthropic47.0%Max reasoning
24gpt-5.6-terra_maxOpenAI47.0%Max reasoning
26deepseek-v4-pro-0813_maxDeepSeek46.0%Max reasoning
26qwen3.8-max_xhighAlibaba46.0%xHigh reasoning
28gpt-5.4-nano-2026-03-17_xhighOpenAI45.0%xHigh reasoning
28gemini-3.5-flash_highGoogle45.0%High reasoning
28claude-sonnet-5_maxAnthropic45.0%Max reasoning
33claude-opus-5_maxAnthropic43.0%Max reasoning
33gpt-5.6-luna_maxOpenAI43.0%Max reasoning
Evaluation limits & attribution

Ranked; related question families share a fixed budget.

Data license: CC BY 4.0 · Epoch AI's own evaluation data.

Results are published by Epoch AI. Original scores and the NexGateHub consensus index use different scales and cannot be added directly.