Top CPU Contributors as of January 2018 (#1367)

[stockfish] / Readme.md

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 ### Overview
 
 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/official-stockfish/Stockfish.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/official-stockfish/Stockfish)
+[![Build Status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/github/official-stockfish/Stockfish?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/mcostalba/stockfish)
 
 Stockfish is a free UCI chess engine derived from Glaurung 2.1. It is
 not a complete chess program and requires some UCI-compatible GUI
@@ -9,7 +10,7 @@ Partner or Fritz) in order to be used comfortably. Read the
 documentation for your GUI of choice for information about how to use
 Stockfish with it.
 
-This version of Stockfish supports up to 128 cores. The engine defaults
+This version of Stockfish supports up to 512 cores. The engine defaults
 to one search thread, so it is therefore recommended to inspect the value of
 the *Threads* UCI parameter, and to make sure it equals the number of CPU
 cores on your computer.
@@ -95,6 +96,14 @@ compile (for instance with Microsoft MSVC) you need to manually
 set/unset some switches in the compiler command line; see file *types.h*
 for a quick reference.
 
+### Resource For Understanding the Code Base
+
+* [Chessprogramingwiki](https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com) has good overall chess engines explanations 
+(techniques used here are well explained like hash maps etc), it was 
+also recommended by the [support at stockfish.](http://support.stockfishchess.org/discussions/questions/1132-how-to-understand-stockfish-sources)
+
+* [Here](https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Stockfish) you can find a set of features and techniques used by stockfish and each of them is explained at the wiki, however, it's a generic way rather than focusing on stockfish's own implementation, but it will still help you. 
+
 
 ### Terms of use
 
@@ -111,4 +120,4 @@ to where the source code can be found. If you make any changes to the
 source code, these changes must also be made available under the GPL.
 
 For full details, read the copy of the GPL found in the file named
-*Copying.txt*
+*Copying.txt*.