Stockfish VS books

Compare Stockfish vs books and see what are their differences.

Stockfish

A free and strong UCI chess engine (by official-stockfish)

books

Chess books used to develop Stockfish (by official-stockfish)
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Stockfish books
150 7
10,345 141
3.1% 5.7%
9.6 4.5
7 days ago 13 days ago
C++ Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only -
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Stockfish

Posts with mentions or reviews of Stockfish. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-25.
  • Manipulating the Internal World Model of a Chess Playing Language Model
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Mar 2024
    The Stockfish program can be set to play at strength level 0-20. Estimates of the levels' Elo is provided here: https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/commit/a08b8...
  • A chess terminal user interface implementation
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Dec 2023
    - and handicapped Stockfish (https://stockfishchess.org).

    The whole thing is at https://github.com/magv/bchess, and can be installed with just 'pip install bchess'.

  • posttest-cli beta testers wanted
    3 projects | /r/chessprogramming | 1 Nov 2023
    This was the result searching for all the 35 stockfish benchmark positions to depth 6.
  • Stockfish 16 Released +47 Elo gain over Stockfish 15 (Single threaded, UHO)
    5 projects | /r/chess | 30 Jun 2023
    https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/releases/tag/sf_16 link to the binary's
    5 projects | /r/chess | 30 Jun 2023
    If you use ChessBase on a MacBook through Parallels, there's an issue where people have posted Apple Silicon compiles for Windows: https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/issues/4241
    5 projects | /r/chess | 30 Jun 2023
    no realistic time controls, especially since stockish is mostly optimized for 60+0.6 and beyond. Anything lower you are basically playing out of sf optimum since a lot of things actually perform well at 60+0.6 but bad at 10+0.1, like this one - https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/commit/84b1940fcae95bb0a641dda9e85cb96f8c21cd22 . So sf at smth like 1 second/game or maybe lower is somewhere near supergm level but it's pretty meaningless since it more or less bugs out there because of complete missoptimization of it search (and net also, for this TCs I would pick really really small net compared to master one).
    5 projects | /r/chess | 30 Jun 2023
    There isn't an Apple Silicon binary in the official releases as of now, you can either use the x86-64-modern version for a slightly degraded performance, or manually compile from source (https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/wiki/Compiling-from-source).
    5 projects | /r/chess | 30 Jun 2023
  • Stockfish 16 is ready!
    2 projects | /r/chess | 26 Jun 2023
    Progress can be found here https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/wiki/Regression-Tests At 1 thread it has gained +18.3 elo on a balanced book, and +47.03 on UHO (unbalanced) book as well as +39.4 elo for FRC and +65.56 for DFRC. At 8 threads it has gained +14.33 elo on a balanced book and +49.46 on UHO (unbalanced book). Also testing was done on 8 threads with 180+1.8 (this is considered very long time control for fishtest standards) and progress was +9.45 on balanced book and +49.65 on UHO.
    2 projects | /r/chess | 26 Jun 2023

books

Posts with mentions or reviews of books. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-19.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Stockfish and books you can also consider the following projects:

nibbler - Chess analysis GUI for UCI engines, with extra features for Leela (Lc0) in particular.

nnue-pytorch - Stockfish NNUE (Chess evaluation) trainer in Pytorch

lc0 - The rewritten engine, originally for tensorflow. Now all other backends have been ported here.

fishtest - The Stockfish testing framework

maia-chess - Maia is a human-like neural network chess engine trained on millions of human games.

Ciphey - ⚡ Automatically decrypt encryptions without knowing the key or cipher, decode encodings, and crack hashes ⚡

Stockfish - UCI chess engine

flask-pgn-api - python flask api to convert chess single game pgn to mp4 videos and fen to png images

admete

nnue

ganja.js - :triangular_ruler: Javascript Geometric Algebra Generator for Javascript, c++, c#, rust, python. (with operator overloading and algebraic literals) -

Chess-Coding-Adventure - A work-in-progress chess bot written in C#