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Interesting SF offshoot

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It plays an enormous number of chess variants (including regular chess):
https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish
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Re: Interesting SF offshoot.

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Hello Dann:
Dann Corbit wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 8:14 pm It plays an enormous number of chess variants (including regular chess):
https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish
It is truly strange that such a computer chess authority like you missed it, unless you are bumping this engine. SF-based variant engines are being there for a while under different names: Fairy-Stockfish, Multi Variant Stockfish... there are some names involved in these projects, making massive Elo gains over the time: Daniel Dugovic, Niklas Fiekas and Fabian Fitcher come to my mind, as well as some contributors like Fishtest way if I am not wrong.

Some threads can be found at TalkChess:

Fairy-Stockfish 10.3 released

250 ELO in ~ 10 months

Enjoy!

Regards from Spain.

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I used to contribute cpu time to improve Fairy Stockfish.

Fairy Stockfish is used on pychess.org. One of the better variant websites.
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Re: Interesting SF offshoot

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Dann Corbit wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 8:14 pm It plays an enormous number of chess variants (including regular chess):
https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish

Fairy Stockfish is "Crazy Strong" and "Crazy Good".......pretty close to the top of the heap... :) :wink:


ps Don't sleep on SF Multi also....quite dangerous...
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