From 49f7ca7d829b6dd01ecf9d7b61077dfecb8f678d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ppigazzini Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 19:40:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Update Readme with Multi Variant Stockfish information Add the information about Multi Variant Stockfish and a link to the MVSF Wiki. The content of the original "Overview" is moved under the heading "Stockfish". --- Readme.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md index 5d4f6c35e8c..b55b7ce2524 100644 --- a/Readme.md +++ b/Readme.md @@ -3,6 +3,28 @@ [![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) +Multi Variant Stockfish is a [Stockfish](https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish) fork specialized to play chess and some chess [variants](https://en.lichess.org/variant): +- [Crazyhouse](https://en.lichess.org/variant/crazyhouse) +- [Atomic](https://en.lichess.org/variant/atomic) +- [Horde](https://en.lichess.org/variant/horde) +- [King of the Hill](https://en.lichess.org/variant/kingOfTheHill) +- [Racing Kings](https://en.lichess.org/variant/racingKings) +- [Losers](https://en.lichess.org/variant/antichess) +- [Three-Check](https://en.lichess.org/variant/threeCheck) +- [Chess960](https://en.lichess.org/variant/chess960) (played natively by Official Stockfish) + +The project has the goal to develop and to improve the playing strength of some chess variants not already played natively by Stockfish, once at month the maintainers will merge the Stockfish new patches to keep up to date also the playing strength for Chess and Chess960. If you are interested to play only Chess and/or Chess960, or to play Chess and/or Chess960 at maximum strength level possible, simply use Stockfish. Multi Variant Stockfish, though using the same code base for Chess and Chess960, is a bit slower. + +Multi Variant Stockfish is currently used in these [lichess.org](https://en.lichess.org/) projects: +- [lichess.org custom Stockfish](https://github.com/niklasf/Stockfish): as engine used to play against the users on lichess.org +- [fishnet: distributed Stockfish analysis for lichess.org](https://github.com/niklasf/fishnet): as engine running on contributed remote servers for games analysis on lichess.org +- [PNaCl Stockfish](https://github.com/niklasf/stockfish.pexe): as engine running in Chrome browser for your personal games analysis + +To get more information please visit the [Multi Variant Stockfish Wiki](https://github.com/ddugovic/Stockfish/wiki) + + +### 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 (e.g. XBoard with PolyGlot, eboard, Arena, Sigma Chess, Shredder, Chess From a48560543a320250c3b4ec6b312bdc7655ad4926 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ppigazzini Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 01:10:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Correct the variant name in Giveaway --- Readme.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md index b55b7ce2524..af2d8429d12 100644 --- a/Readme.md +++ b/Readme.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Multi Variant Stockfish is a [Stockfish](https://github.com/official-stockfish/S - [Horde](https://en.lichess.org/variant/horde) - [King of the Hill](https://en.lichess.org/variant/kingOfTheHill) - [Racing Kings](https://en.lichess.org/variant/racingKings) -- [Losers](https://en.lichess.org/variant/antichess) +- [Giveaway](https://en.lichess.org/variant/antichess) - [Three-Check](https://en.lichess.org/variant/threeCheck) - [Chess960](https://en.lichess.org/variant/chess960) (played natively by Official Stockfish)