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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
+not a complete chess program and requires some UCI-compatible GUI
(e.g. XBoard with PolyGlot, eboard, Arena, Sigma Chess, Shredder, Chess
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 32 CPUs, but has not been
+This version of Stockfish supports up to 64 CPUs, but has not been
tested thoroughly with more than 4. The program tries to detect the
number of CPUs on your computer and sets the number of search threads
accordingly, but please be aware that the detection is not always
This version of Stockfish has support for PolyGlot opening books. For
information about how to create such books, consult the PolyGlot
-documentation. The book file can be selected by setting the UCI
-parameter "Book File".
+documentation. The book file can be selected by setting the "Book File"
+UCI parameter.
4. Compiling it yourself
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-On Unix-like systems, it should usually be possible to compile Stockfish
+On Unix-like systems, it should be possible to compile Stockfish
directly from the source code with the included Makefile.
Stockfish has support for 32 or 64-bit CPUs, the hardware POPCNT
instruction, big-endian machines such as Power PC, and other platforms.
-In general is recommended to run 'make help' to see a list of make
+In general it is recommended to run 'make help' to see a list of make
targets with corresponding descriptions. When not using Makefile to
compile (for instance with Microsoft MSVC) you need to manually
-set/unset some switches in the compiler command line; see file types.h
+set/unset some switches in the compiler command line; see file "types.h"
for a quick reference.
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