Michael Chaly
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Instead of immediately returning a fail high do this only at non-pv nodes, for pv nodes adjust bestValue to value between alpha and beta and continue searching. Idea is to do it the same way as it's done in search where we don't return positive beta cutoffs after ttHits / zero window search at PvNodes and instead fully search lines. Passed STC: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/65739b0af09ce1261f122f33 LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00> Total: 189216 W: 48142 L: 47598 D: 93476 Ptnml(0-2): 584, 22463, 48051, 22845, 665 Passed LTC: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/657701214d789acf40aac194 LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,2.50> Total: 82506 W: 20689 L: 20269 D: 41548 Ptnml(0-2): 56, 9236, 22268, 9618, 75 Two issues had to be resolved: - in rare cases it set alpha to the same value as beta and thus broke some asserts; - messed up with returning tb win values. Fix passed non-regression LTC vs this patch: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/6578113b4d789acf40aad544 LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) <-1.75,0.25> Total: 277308 W: 68839 L: 68880 D: 139589 Ptnml(0-2): 167, 31580, 75212, 31517, 178 closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/4922 Bench: 1069503 Co-Authored-By: Muzhen Gaming <61100393+XInTheDark@users.noreply.github.com> Co-Authored-By: Shahin M. Shahin <41402573+peregrineshahin@users.noreply.github.com> Co-Authored-By: fffelix-huang <72808219+fffelix-huang@users.noreply.github.com>
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Overview
Stockfish is a free and strong UCI chess engine derived from Glaurung 2.1 that analyzes chess positions and computes the optimal moves.
Stockfish does not include a graphical user interface (GUI) that is required to display a chessboard and to make it easy to input moves. These GUIs are developed independently from Stockfish and are available online. Read the documentation for your GUI of choice for information about how to use Stockfish with it.
See also the Stockfish documentation for further usage help.
Files
This distribution of Stockfish consists of the following files:
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README.md, the file you are currently reading.
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Copying.txt, a text file containing the GNU General Public License version 3.
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AUTHORS, a text file with the list of authors for the project.
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src, a subdirectory containing the full source code, including a Makefile that can be used to compile Stockfish on Unix-like systems.
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a file with the .nnue extension, storing the neural network for the NNUE evaluation. Binary distributions will have this file embedded.
Contributing
See Contributing Guide.
Donating hardware
Improving Stockfish requires a massive amount of testing. You can donate your hardware resources by installing the Fishtest Worker and viewing the current tests on Fishtest.
Improving the code
In the chessprogramming wiki, many techniques used in Stockfish are explained with a lot of background information. The section on Stockfish describes many features and techniques used by Stockfish. However, it is generic rather than focused on Stockfish's precise implementation.
The engine testing is done on Fishtest. If you want to help improve Stockfish, please read this guideline first, where the basics of Stockfish development are explained.
Discussions about Stockfish take place these days mainly in the Stockfish Discord server. This is also the best place to ask questions about the codebase and how to improve it.
Compiling Stockfish
Stockfish has support for 32 or 64-bit CPUs, certain hardware instructions, big-endian machines such as Power PC, and other platforms.
On Unix-like systems, it should be easy to compile Stockfish directly from the
source code with the included Makefile in the folder src. In general, it is
recommended to run make help to see a list of make targets with corresponding
descriptions. An example suitable for most Intel and AMD chips:
cd src
make -j profile-build ARCH=x86-64-avx2
Detailed compilation instructions for all platforms can be found in our documentation. Our wiki also has information about the UCI commands supported by Stockfish.
Terms of use
Stockfish is free and distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPL v3). Essentially, this means you are free to do almost exactly what you want with the program, including distributing it among your friends, making it available for download from your website, selling it (either by itself or as part of some bigger software package), or using it as the starting point for a software project of your own.
The only real limitation is that whenever you distribute Stockfish in some way, you MUST always include the license and the full source code (or a pointer to where the source code can be found) to generate the exact binary you are distributing. If you make any changes to the source code, these changes must also be made available under GPL v3.