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Stockfish

A free and strong UCI chess engine

  • chess
  • chess-engine
  • cpp
  • stockfish
  • uci
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17,075
Forks
3,109
+ today
+1
Created
12y

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Overview

A free and strong UCI chess engine It ranks #2885 on GitTiger, gaining +1 star on November 3, 2026 (UTC).

The project is written in C++ and has 3,109 forks. It was created 12y ago.

Installation
git clone https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish.git
cd Stockfish
# see README for setup