stockfish

Powerful open source chess engine

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/stockfish.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install stockfish
Ubuntu
apt-get install stockfish
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install stockfish
Fedora
dnf install stockfish-9
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install stockfish
OS X
brew install stockfish
Raspbian
apt-get install stockfish

stockfish-9

Powerful open source chess engine

stockfish-8

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stockfish

strong chess engine, to play chess against

free chess engine derived from Glaurung 2.1. It is a chess engine, so it requires an UCI (universal chess interface) compatible GUI like XBoard (with PolyGlot), eboard, Jose, Arena or scid in order to be used comfortably. It is the strongest open source chess engine by october 2009 in the "computer chess rating list" CCRL. Written in C++ it uses multiple threads and cores. It is capable of Chess960 and has experimental support for polyglot opening books.