official-stockfish/Stockfish

A free and strong UCI chess engine

Games & graphicsC++#chess#chess-engine#cpp#stockfish#uci

1.5 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 1, 2026, 12:56 UTC.

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About the project

A free UCI chess engine that analyzes positions and computes optimal moves. It ships without a GUI and is used through third-party chess interfaces.

Useful for

Build the engine from source with make profile-build for your platform
Connect the engine to a chess GUI via the UCI protocol to analyze games
Run a Fishtest Worker to donate compute for testing patches

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

0 stars so far today, about 3 expected by the end of the day.
GitHub Trending C++ today: #13, +12 stars.

Stars per day

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Numbers

Total stars: 16,784
Today: 0 · ≈ 3 by evening
Forks: 3,055
Issues and pull requests: 6,844
Watchers: 265
Language: C++
License: GPL-3.0
Latest release: stockfish-dev-20260930-49ea5ded · September 30, 2026
Created: June 18, 2014
Last push: September 30, 2026

Star trust

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October 1, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #13, +12 stars

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