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an [[UCI]] compatible [[:Category:Open Source|open source]] chess engine developed by [[Tord Romstad]], [[Marco Costalba]], [[Joona Kiiski]] and [[Gary Linscott]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58779 Stockfish 7] by [[Joona Kiiski]], [[CCC]], January 02, 2016</ref>, licensed under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GPL v3.0]]. Marco forked the project from version 2.1 of Tord's engine [[Glaurung]], first announced by Marco in November 8, 2008 <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24675 Stockfish 1.0] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], November 02, 2008</ref>, and in early 2009 Joona's [[Smaug]], a further Glaurung 2.2 derivative, was incorporated <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26971&start=1 Re: Smaug: a new chess engine based on glaurung] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], March 12, 2009</ref> . Starting out among the top twenty engines, Stockfish has quickly climbed in [[Playing Strength|strength]] to become the world strongest chess entity as of 2018 - at least concerning the [[AlphaZero]] hype <ref>[[David Silver]], [[Thomas Hubert]], [[Julian Schrittwieser]], [[Ioannis Antonoglou]], [[Matthew Lai]], [[Arthur Guez]], [[Marc Lanctot]], [[Laurent Sifre]], [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[Thore Graepel]], [[Timothy Lillicrap]], [[Karen Simonyan]], [[Demis Hassabis]] ('''2017'''). ''Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01815 arXiv:1712.01815]</ref>, public available chess entity. The name "Stockfish" reflects the ancestry of the engine. Tord is Norwegian and Marco Italian, and there is a long history of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockfish stockfish] trade from Norway to Italy (to Marco's home town of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicenza Vicenza], in fact). Stockfish also referred another famous "little fish", the then strongest chess engine [[Rybka]].  In 2011 and 2014 Romstad and Marco Costalba stepped down as Stockfish maintainers. From that, the project is being developed and maintained by the Stockfish community.

Also, many hobbyist chess programmers feel in the antagonism as well, not only caused by Stockfish with its highly respected authors, and before by [[Fruit]] and slightly [[Crafty]], but from [[Ippolit]] and all its successors by pseudonymous authors and disputed origin. The implications on commercial and competitive computer chess are not quite clear, but presumably, the decrease in the number of participants of over the board [[Tournaments and Matches|tournaments]] will progress and [[Clones:Category:Clone|clone]] suspicions may float like a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damocles Sword of Damocles] over the scene, whether programmers took ideas too literally or not.

Stockfish is top contender of the prestigious [[TCEC|Thoresen Top Chess Engines Competition (TCEC)]], reaching the superfinals since [[TCEC Season 4|season 4]], and clearly established its world number one status in winning recent TCECs, leaving its commercial rivals [[Komodo]] and [[Houdini]] behind.Since [[TCEC_Season_14#Superfinal|season 14]] in early 2019, Stockfish competes with the [[Deep Learning|deep learning]] [[Leela Chess Zero]] engines, whose [[Playing Strength|playing strength]] triggered a motivation boost in the developing community to further improve Stockfish.

<ref>''See also '' [[Evaluation Philosophy]] and <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=135133&t=15504 The Art of Evaluation] by [[Tord Romstad]], [[CCC]], August 2, 2007</ref> <ref>[https://hxim.github.io/Stockfish-Evaluation-Guide/ Stockfish Evaluation Guide]</ref>and [[NNUE]]

* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39214 Stockfish clones in the AppStore: it's becoming a plague...] by [[Julien Marcel]], [[CCC]], May 28, 2011 » [[:Category:Clone|Clones]]

* [http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/cgi/compare_engines.cgi?family=Stockfish&print=Rating+list&print=Results+table&print=LOS+table&print=Ponder+hit+table&print=Eval+difference+table&print=Comopp+gamenum+table&print=Overlap+table&print=Score+with+common+opponents Stockfish] from [[CCRL|CCRL 40/4015]]* [http://computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404/cgi/engine_detailscompare_engines.cgi?family=Stockfish&print=Rating+list&print=Results+table&print=LOS+table&print=Ponder+hit+table&print=DetailsEval+difference+table&each_gameprint=1Comopp+gamenum+table&engprint=Overlap+table&print=Score+with+common+opponents Stockfish%205%2064-bit%204CPU#Stockfish_5_64-bit_4CPU Stockfish 5 64-bit 4CPU] in [[CCRL|CCRL 40/4Blitz]]