## Overview
-[](https://travis-ci.org/official-stockfish/Stockfish)
+[](https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/actions)
[](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/mcostalba/stockfish/branch/master)
[Stockfish](https://stockfishchess.org) is a free, powerful UCI chess engine
This distribution of Stockfish consists of the following files:
- * Readme.md, the file you are currently reading.
+ * [Readme.md](https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/blob/master/README.md), the file you are currently reading.
- * Copying.txt, a text file containing the GNU General Public License version 3.
+ * [Copying.txt](https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/blob/master/Copying.txt), a text file containing the GNU General Public License version 3.
- * AUTHORS, a text file with the list of authors for the project
+ * [AUTHORS](https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/blob/master/AUTHORS), a text file with the list of authors for the project
- * src, a subdirectory containing the full source code, including a Makefile
+ * [src](https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/tree/master/src), a subdirectory containing the full source code, including a Makefile
that can be used to compile Stockfish on Unix-like systems.
* a file with the .nnue extension, storing the neural network for the NNUE
## The UCI protocol and available options
-The Universal Chess Interface (UCI) is a standard protocol used to communicate with a chess engine,
-and is the recommended way to do so for typical graphical user interfaces (GUI) or chess tools.
+The Universal Chess Interface (UCI) is a standard protocol used to communicate with
+a chess engine, and is the recommended way to do so for typical graphical user interfaces
+(GUI) or chess tools. Stockfish implements the majority of it options as described
+in [the UCI protocol](https://www.shredderchess.com/download/div/uci.zip).
-Stockfish implements most commands as described in [the UCI protocol](https://www.shredderchess.com/download/div/uci.zip)
-
-For users, the following UCI options, which can typically be set via a GUI, are available in Stockfish:
+Developers can see the default values for UCI options available in Stockfish by typing
+`./stockfish uci` in a terminal, but the majority of users will typically see them and
+change them via a chess GUI. This is a list of available UCI options in Stockfish:
* #### Threads
The number of CPU threads used for searching a position. For best performance, set
Limit Syzygy tablebase probing to positions with at most this many pieces left
(including kings and pawns).
- * #### Contempt
- A positive value for contempt favors middle game positions and avoids draws,
- effective for the classical evaluation only.
-
- * #### Analysis Contempt
- By default, contempt is set to prefer the side to move. Set this option to "White"
- or "Black" to analyse with contempt for that side, or "Off" to disable contempt.
-
* #### Move Overhead
Assume a time delay of x ms due to network and GUI overheads. This is useful to
avoid losses on time in those cases.
For developers the following non-standard commands might be of interest, mainly useful for debugging:
- * #### bench ttSize threads limit fenFile limitType evalType
- Performs a standard benchmark using various options. The signature or standard node
- count is obtained using all defaults. `bench` is currently `bench 16 1 13 default depth mixed`.
+ * #### bench *ttSize threads limit fenFile limitType evalType*
+ Performs a standard benchmark using various options. The signature of a version (standard node
+ count) is obtained using all defaults. `bench` is currently `bench 16 1 13 default depth mixed`.
* #### compiler
Give information about the compiler and environment used for building a binary.
these changes must also be made available under the GPL.
For full details, read the copy of the GPL v3 found in the file named
-*Copying.txt*.
+[*Copying.txt*](https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/blob/master/Copying.txt).
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