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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 Marco Costalba and Joona Kiiski stepped down as Stockfish maintainers <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40610 Stockfish on github] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], October 02, 2011</ref>. From that, the project is being developed and maintained by the Stockfish community.

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/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=73753 Null move] by [[Robert Pope]], [[CCC]], April 24, 2020 » [[Null Move Pruning]]* [http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74059 Stockfish NN release (NNUE)] by [[Henk Drost]], [[CCC]], May 31, 2020 » [[NNUE]], [[Stockfish NNUE]]* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fishcooking/EBKQSrb9I08/5xasTnnSCAAJ stockfishNNUE vs others (TCEC 18 bonus)] by [[Warren D. Smith]], [[Computer Chess Forums|FishCooking]], July 14, 2020* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74484 Can the sardine! NNUE clobbers SF] by [[Henk Drost]], [[CCC]], July 16, 2020 » [[Stockfish NNUE]]* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74933 The most stupid idea by the Stockfish Team] by Damir, [[CCC]], August 30, 2020 » [[Stockfish NNUE]]* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fishcooking/TJHsiI61yQ4/liQoZ-AzAgAJ Stockfish 12] by [[Joost VandeVondele]], [[Computer Chess Forums|FishCooking]], September 02, 2020* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74974 Stockfish 12 is released today!] by Nay Lin Tun, [[CCC]], September 02, 2020* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74978 Stockfish 12 has arrived!] by daniel71, [[CCC]], September 02, 2020

* [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]]