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Stockfish

Open-source chess engine by Romstad

Stockfish is a free and open-source chess engine, available for various desktop and mobile platforms. It is developed by Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Gary Linscott, Stéphane Nicolet, and Tord Romstad, with many contributions from a community of open-source developers.

Stockfish is consistently ranked first or near the top of most chess-engine rating lists and is the strongest conventional chess engine in the world. It won the unofficial world computer chess championships in seasons 6 (2014), 9 (2016), 11 (2018), 12 (2018), 13 (2018), 14 (2019), and 16 (2019). It finished runner-up in season 5 (2013), 7 (2014), 8 (2015), and 15 (2019).

Stockfish is derived from Glaurung, an open-source engine by Romstad released in 2004.

Visit website: https://stockfishchess.org/

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See also: Advocate Joona Kiiski - Experienced Software Engineer and Computer Chess Specialist

Details last updated 12-Feb-2020

Stockfish News

Human-like intuition and creativity, now exhibited by DeepMind's AlphaZero

Human-like intuition and creativity, now exhibited by DeepMind's AlphaZero

YAHOO! - 07-Dec-2018

This improvisation was regarded as historical 'turning point' for AI