The Stockfish Story
Stockfish is based on
Glaurung, which is written by Tord Romstad. The Stockfish branch was started by Marco Costalba during a period in which Tord was not doing computer chess. Tord later rejoined the team, together with Joona Kiiski. Since then, Stockfish has become the best open-source chess engine. Its strength is comparable to the commercial
Rybka chess engine.
Stockfish Technology
Like many other leading chess engines, Stockfish is an
alpha-beta searcher and uses a
bitboard representation. You can peruse through the Stockfish source code by yourself; simply head on over to the
Download page.
The Stockfish Team
| The developers. |
| Tord Romstad |
Marco Costalba |
Joona Kiiski |
| Tord is a professional mathematician and programmer, a hobby sprinter, and one of the world's least talented violists. He used to play chess when he was younger, and hated it so much that he ended up writing a computer program to do this boring and tedious task for him. |
Marco is a professional developer, a very weak chess player, and an amateur chess engine programmer. |
Joona is a math teacher, chess hobbyist, and amateur programmer. |
These people also do stuff! |
| Daylen Yang |
Salvo Spitaleri |
Jim Ablett |
| Daylen is a 15-year-old student and chess enthusiast. He happens to maintain the Stockfish Chess website and Twitter account. |
Salvo is the author of the excellent Stockfish opening book. |
Jim is an IT administrator and a chess engine compilation guru. He kindly compiles the Windows and Linux versions of Stockfish. |
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