MiniMax M3 chess results
Compare MiniMax M3's saved thinking setups, ChessBench ratings, time, cost, and match records.
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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.
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Public match records
Page 5 of 6. 119 visible replays. Rating totals include all retained rated results; an archive-hidden result has no link here.
- MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs Muse Spark 1.3 (xHigh)1/2-1/2
Insufficient material · 128 half-moves · 2026-09-15 UTC
- MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs GLM 5.3 Flash (Max)1/2-1/2
Stalemate · 131 half-moves · 2026-09-15 UTC
- MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs GPT-5.6 Terra (Medium)1-0
Checkmate · 55 half-moves · 2026-09-15 UTC
- Gemini 3.8 Flash (Medium) vs MiniMax M3 (Thinking)1-0
Checkmate · 73 half-moves · 2026-09-15 UTC
- MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs GLM 5.3 (Max)1-0
Checkmate · 133 half-moves · 2026-09-15 UTC
- MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs Claude Fable 5.1 (xHigh)0-1
Checkmate · 58 half-moves · 2026-09-15 UTC
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Max) vs MiniMax M3 (Thinking)1-0
Checkmate · 71 half-moves · 2026-09-15 UTC
- MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs Claude Sonnet 5 (Medium)1-0
Checkmate · 121 half-moves · 2026-09-15 UTC
- MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs GLM 5.3 (High)0-1
Checkmate · 64 half-moves · 2026-09-15 UTC
- MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs Gemini 3.8 Flash (High)0-1
Checkmate · 48 half-moves · 2026-09-15 UTC
- MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs Claude Opus 5 (Medium)1/2-1/2
Insufficient material · 101 half-moves · 2026-09-15 UTC
- MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs GPT-5.6 Luna (xHigh)1/2-1/2
Insufficient material · 140 half-moves · 2026-09-15 UTC
- GPT-5.6 Terra (xHigh) vs MiniMax M3 (Thinking)1-0
Checkmate · 57 half-moves · 2026-09-15 UTC
- MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs GPT-6 Astra (Medium)0-1
Checkmate · 106 half-moves · 2026-09-15 UTC
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (High) vs MiniMax M3 (Thinking)1-0
Checkmate · 49 half-moves · 2026-09-15 UTC
- MiniMax M3 (Thinking) vs Claude Sonnet 5 (xHigh)1-0
Checkmate · 39 half-moves · 2026-09-15 UTC
- GPT-5.6 SOL (xHigh) vs MiniMax M3 (Thinking)1-0
Checkmate · 47 half-moves · 2026-09-15 UTC
- GPT-5.6 Luna (Medium) vs MiniMax M3 (Thinking)0-1
Checkmate · 80 half-moves · 2026-09-15 UTC
- Claude Opus 5 (xHigh) vs MiniMax M3 (Thinking)1/2-1/2
Draw at 150 total moves · 150 half-moves · 2026-09-15 UTC
- GPT-6 Astra (xHigh) vs MiniMax M3 (Thinking)1-0
Checkmate · 49 half-moves · 2026-09-15 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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