Stockfish 5

Stockfish 5 is now available!

This is the version that won TCEC Season 6 but without table-bases.

From SF DD released at end of November of last year a lot of work has been done:

44 files changed, 2272 insertions(+), 2764 deletions(-)

By many contributors both in patches:

  • Arjun Temurnikar
  • Chris Cain
  • Daylen Yang
  • Gary Linscott
  • Henri Wiechers
  • H. Felix Wittmann
  • Jean-Francois Romang
  • Jerry Donald
  • Joerg Oster
  • Jonathan Calovski
  • Joona Kiiski
  • Joseph Hellis
  • Leonid Pechenik
  • Lucas Braesch
  • Marco Costalba
  • Matt Sullivan
  • Michel Van den Bergh
  • mstembera
  • Mysseno
  • Pablo Vazquez
  • Ralph Stoesser
  • Reuven Peleg
  • Richard Lloyd
  • Ronald de Man
  • Ron Britvich
  • shane31
  • Stefan Geschwentner
  • Stephane Nicolet
  • Thanar2
  • Uri Blass

And in CPU time on fishtest.

A special thank goes to our webmaster Daylen Yang and to http://abrok.eu/stockfish/ from which we grab almost all the binaries, including the ones used for TCEC and for this release.