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MiniMax M3 chess results⁠

Compare MiniMax M3's saved thinking setups, ChessBench ratings, time, cost, and match records.

ChessBench Elo ratings compare LLMs within this benchmark only. They are not equivalent to Chess.com, FIDE, or other chess ratings. Beating a 2000-rated LLM here does not establish your rating or predict the same result against a 2000-rated human player.

Thinking #29

1261 ChessBench Elo

Placement complete · 119 rated games

Wins / draws / losses
15 / 33 / 71
Result percentages
13% / 27% / 60%
Time per turn
33.7s
Cost per game
$0.541
Output tokens per game
165,895
Rejected %
3.72%

How to read this comparison

Each thinking setup has its own rating and completed-game record. Higher thinking settings do not guarantee more wins. The figures above use the same saved data as the leaderboard.

Time includes model requests per accepted move. Cost uses fully priced completed benchmark games. Output includes reported reasoning tokens. Human challenges are separate.

Public match records

Page 1 of 6. 119 visible replays. Rating totals include all retained rated results; an archive-hidden result has no link here.

  1. MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs MiniMax M3.1 Flash (xHigh)1-0

    Checkmate · 89 half-moves · 2026-10-26 UTC

  2. MiniMax M3.1 Flash (xHigh) vs MiniMax M3 (Thinking)1-0

    Checkmate · 115 half-moves · 2026-10-26 UTC

  3. MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs MiniMax M3.1 Flash (Medium)1-0

    Black forfeited after 3 invalid attempts · 75 half-moves · 2026-10-26 UTC

  4. MiniMax M3.1 Flash (Medium) vs MiniMax M3 (Thinking)1/2-1/2

    Insufficient material · 136 half-moves · 2026-10-26 UTC

  5. GPT-6.1 Terra (xHigh) vs MiniMax M3 (Thinking)1-0

    Checkmate · 65 half-moves · 2026-10-26 UTC

  6. MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs GPT-6.1 Terra (xHigh)1-0

    Checkmate · 73 half-moves · 2026-10-26 UTC

  7. GPT-6.1 Terra (Medium) vs MiniMax M3 (Thinking)1-0

    Checkmate · 69 half-moves · 2026-10-26 UTC

  8. MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs GPT-6.1 Terra (Medium)1/2-1/2

    Stalemate · 134 half-moves · 2026-10-26 UTC

  9. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (1017) (Max) vs MiniMax M3 (Thinking)1-0

    Checkmate · 85 half-moves · 2026-10-17 UTC

  10. MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (1017) (Max)0-1

    Checkmate · 150 half-moves · 2026-10-17 UTC

  11. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (1017) (High) vs MiniMax M3 (Thinking)1-0

    Checkmate · 41 half-moves · 2026-10-17 UTC

  12. MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (1017) (High)0-1

    Checkmate · 86 half-moves · 2026-10-17 UTC

  13. MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs Gemini 4 Argon (High)0-1

    Checkmate · 34 half-moves · 2026-10-13 UTC

  14. Gemini 4 Argon (High) vs MiniMax M3 (Thinking)1-0

    Checkmate · 61 half-moves · 2026-10-13 UTC

  15. Gemini 4 Argon (Medium) vs MiniMax M3 (Thinking)1-0

    Checkmate · 53 half-moves · 2026-10-13 UTC

  16. MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs Gemini 4 Argon (Medium)0-1

    Checkmate · 96 half-moves · 2026-10-13 UTC

  17. Claude Haiku 5.5 (xHigh) vs MiniMax M3 (Thinking)1-0

    Checkmate · 51 half-moves · 2026-10-07 UTC

  18. MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs Claude Haiku 5.5 (xHigh)0-1

    Checkmate · 72 half-moves · 2026-10-07 UTC

  19. MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium)1/2-1/2

    Draw at 150 total moves · 150 half-moves · 2026-10-07 UTC

  20. Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium) vs MiniMax M3 (Thinking)1-0

    Checkmate · 43 half-moves · 2026-10-07 UTC

Cite these results

ChessBench. MiniMax M3 chess results. https://chessbench.org/models/minimax-m3. Retrieved 2026-10-28. Include the model, thinking level, protocol, and sample size when citing results.

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