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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 [[:Category:Stockfish Contributor|Stockfish community]]. A synergy effect with the [[Shogi]] community led to the promising branch of [[Stockfish NNUE]], courtesy of [[Hisayori Noda|Nodchip]], who introduced [[NNUE]] to Stockfish in 2019 <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74059 Stockfish NN release (NNUE)] by [[Henk Drost]], [[CCC]], May 31, 2020</ref>. On September 02, 2020, '''Stockfish 12''' was released with a huge jump in [[Playing Strength|playing strength]] due to NNUE and further [[Automated Tuning|tuning]] of the engine as a whole <ref>[https://blog.stockfishchess.org/post/628172810852925440/stockfish-12 Stockfish 12], The Stockfish Team, [https://blog.stockfishchess.org/ Stockfish Blog], September 02, 2020</ref>.
=Science versus Commerce?=
* Stockfish 10 : November 29, 2018
* Stockfish 11 : January 18, 2020
* [[Stockfish NNUE|Stockfish 12]] : September 02, 2020
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=Ports=
=Derivatives=
* [[Brainfish]]
* [[Crystal]]
* [[McBrain]]
* [[DON]]
* [[:Category:Stockfish Contributor|Contributors]]
=Elo progress Progress=of Stockfish from version 1 to 11in first 10 years <ref>[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZAIuHR6n-5JTxKQc0XUSx1jyUrgVEcj8DNLKA7-urBw/edit#gid=201239930 Cscuile's Sheets]</ref>[[File:SfElo.png|none|border|text-bottom]]
=See also=
* [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
=External Links=
* [https://github.com/zamar zamar · GitHub] by [[Joona Kiiski]]
* [http://abrok.eu/stockfish/ Stockfish Development Versions] hosted by [[Roman Korba]]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockfish_%28chess%29 Stockfish (chess) from Wikipedia]
* [http://www.chess.fortherapy.co.uk/ Arduino & Raspberry PI Chess Computer] running [[Stockfish]] on [[Raspberry Pi]], by [[Max Dobres]] » [[Arduino]], [[Sensory Board]]
* [https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2016/01/21/a-chess-firewall-at-zero/ A Chess Firewall at Zero?] by [[Kenneth W. Regan|Ken Regan]], [https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/ Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP], January 21, 2016
* [http://adamsccpages.blogspot.com/p/sf-framework-history.html Adam's Computer Chess Pages: Stockfish Progression] by [[Adam Hair]] » [[Stockfish#Fishtest|Fishtest]]
==Blog==
* [https://blog.stockfishchess.org/ Stockfish Blog]
* [https://blog.stockfishchess.org/post/152699558142/stockfish-8 Stockfish 8], November 01, 2016
* [https://blog.stockfishchess.org/post/180690834147/stockfish-9 Stockfish 9], February 09, 2018
* [https://blog.stockfishchess.org/post/180691011237/stockfish-10 Stockfish 10], December 01, 2018
* [https://blog.stockfishchess.org/post/190398991302/stockfish-11 Stockfish 11], The Stockfish Team, January 15, 2020
* [https://blog.stockfishchess.org/post/625828091343896577/introducing-nnue-evaluation Introducing NNUE Evaluation], August 07, 2020
* [https://blog.stockfishchess.org/post/628172810852925440/stockfish-12 Stockfish 12], The Stockfish Team, September 02, 2020
==Testing==
* [https://stockfishchess.org/get-involved/ Get Involved - Stockfish - Powerful Open Source Chess Engine]
* [https://github.com/zamar/spsa SPSA Tuner for Stockfish Chess Engine] » [[SPSA]]
==Rating Lists==
* [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]]
==Matches==
* [http://www.chess.com/article/view/how-rybka-and-i-tried-to-beat-the-strongest-chess-computer-in-the-world Can a GM and Rybka beat Stockfish?] by GM [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Naroditsky Daniel Naroditsky], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess.com Chess.com], August 08, 2014 » [[Stockfish#Matches|GM+Rybka vs. Stockfish]]
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