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1. Introduction
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Stockfish is a free UCI chess engine derived from Glaurung 2.1. It is not a
complete chess program, but requires some UCI compatible GUI (like XBoard
with PolyGlot, eboard, Arena, Sigma Chess, Shredder, Chess Partner or Fritz)
in order to be used comfortably. Read the documentation for your GUI of choice
for information about how to use Stockfish with your GUI.
Stockfish is a free UCI chess engine derived from Glaurung 2.1. It is
not a complete chess program and requires some UCI compatible GUI
(e.g. XBoard with PolyGlot, eboard, Arena, Sigma Chess, Shredder, Chess
Partner or Fritz) in order to be used comfortably. Read the
documentation for your GUI of choice for information about how to use
Stockfish with it.
This version of Stockfish supports up to 32 CPUs, but has not been tested
thoroughly with more than 4. The program tries to detect the number of
CPUs on your computer and set the number of search threads accordingly, but
please be aware that the detection is not always correct. It is therefore
recommended to inspect the value of the "Threads" UCI parameter, and to
make sure it equals the number of CPU cores on your computer. If you are
using more than eight threads, it is recommended to raise the value of
"Min Split Depth" UCI parameter to 7.
This version of Stockfish supports up to 32 CPUs, but has not been
tested thoroughly with more than 4. The program tries to detect the
number of CPUs on your computer and sets the number of search threads
accordingly, but please be aware that the detection is not always
correct. It is therefore recommended to inspect the value of the
"Threads" UCI parameter, and to make sure it equals the number of CPU
cores on your computer. If you are using more than eight threads, it is
recommended to raise the value of the "Min Split Depth" UCI parameter to
7.
2. Files
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* Readme.txt, the file you are currently reading.
* Copying.txt, a text file containing the GNU General Public
License.
* Copying.txt, a text file containing the GNU General Public License.
* src/, a subdirectory containing the full source code, including a
Makefile that can be used to compile Stockfish on Unix-like systems.
For further information about how to compile Stockfish yourself
read section 4 below.
For further information about how to compile Stockfish yourself read
section 4 below.
* polyglot.ini, for using Stockfish with Fabien Letouzey's PolyGlot
adapter.
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3. Opening books
----------------
This version of Stockfish has support for PolyGlot opening books.
For information about how to create such books, consult the PolyGlot
documentation. The book file can be selected by setting the UCI
This version of Stockfish has support for PolyGlot opening books. For
information about how to create such books, consult the PolyGlot
documentation. The book file can be selected by setting the UCI
parameter "Book File".
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On Unix-like systems, it should usually be possible to compile Stockfish
directly from the source code with the included Makefile.
Stockfish has support for 32 or 64 bits CPUS, big-endian machines, like
Power PC, hardware POPCNT instruction and other platforms.
Stockfish has support for 32 or 64-bit CPUs, the hardware POPCNT
instruction, big-endian machines such as Power PC, and other platforms.
In general is recommended to run 'make help' to see a list of make targets
with corresponding descriptions. When not using Makefile to compile, for
instance with Microsoft MSVC, you need to manually set/unset in the compiler
command line some swicthes, see file types.h for a quick reference.
In general is recommended to run 'make help' to see a list of make
targets with corresponding descriptions. When not using Makefile to
compile (for instance with Microsoft MSVC) you need to manually
set/unset some switches in the compiler command line; see file types.h
for a quick reference.
5. Terms of use