X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?p=stockfish;a=blobdiff_plain;f=Readme.txt;h=9c80a876f641b34c6df424a30cb806fb703cb0c7;hp=96c7da244b8af5abe5e9fae853af1980a882284c;hb=3cf6471738dc704ddf553d5f8d2dc9875c2ccbe7;hpb=591adf564a311913936da18713c34d9d796ba3ed diff --git a/Readme.txt b/Readme.txt index 96c7da24..9c80a876 100644 --- a/Readme.txt +++ b/Readme.txt @@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ --------------- 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 @@ -42,23 +42,23 @@ This distribution of Stockfish consists of the following files: 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 ------------------------ -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.