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This is a legitimate line used for Stockfish development testing
1 project | /r/chess | 29 Jul 2022

Yeah, I noticed most tests still use older UHO lines (not sure why?) even though UHO 2022 came out a few months ago and has already been included in official stockfish development books list.
Stockfish 15 is now available
4 projects | /r/chess | 19 Apr 2022

You mean this? These are not opening books, though they're called "books". They're PGNs with starting positions, usually a couple of moves into the game, that are used for statistical tests as having engines play from the regular starting position does not sweep the space of realistic game positions very well.
Stockfish 15 is ready!
5 projects | /r/chess | 18 Apr 2022
Are Tablebases Obsolete?
1 project | /r/chess | 27 Mar 2022

As you can see, the value of tablebases did decline significantly following the switch to NNUE evaluation. In fact it is just within the margin of error so we can't even conclude that tablebases increase the strength of Stockfish 14.1 at all. So then I decided to try using endgame positions to start. I used the endgames.pgn file from this Stockfish book repository, which is a huge set of imbalanced endgame starting positions. The results of these 20,000 game matches were:
If you let the strongest chess engine play itself with as much time as it needs to decide on a move, what sort of opening ideas does it go for? What does the game end up looking like?
1 project | /r/chess | 3 Jan 2022

In engine vs engine tournaments , we use books to increase the variety. Here you can download them https://github.com/official-stockfish/books.
Today, we have the pleasure to announce Stockfish 14.1
4 projects | /r/chess | 27 Oct 2021
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