Of course we are all happy and proud that people enjoy our program, and we hope that we are able to inspire amateurs as well as professionals, and to keep regular users happy.
Stockfish animated the complete computer chess area. This is motivation enough for other amateurs and of course a must for each commercial. Apropos of playing strength: Stockfish is the measure in all categories for commercials. A free available engine is the best or nearly the best in the World. This was always my biggest wish since Winboard times. In my opinion we have the dream situation with Stockfish. All we would get in compensation for the extra work is a small amount of money which we don't really need. Going commercial would force us to deal more heavily with tasks like marketing, support and GUI programming, for which we have little skill and interest. Most people don't earn any money from their hobbies, and I see no reason why chess programming should be different. Why shouldn't it be free? All three of us have regular jobs which pay our bills computer chess is just a hobby. There are no plans of a commercial Stockfish. Are any commercials in visibility? I smell danger! I am sure that you have discussed this theme, so please give us at first a clear statement about it! I am sure that the Stockfish team has got a lot of mails about commercial enquiry. It’s time for an interview!īy now words had spread about the success of Stockfish. The Norwegian programmer with barrels of chess knowledge is one of the most talented chess programmers "we" have. Tord worked a long time on the preview engines Gothmog / Glaurung. Probably this could be one of the reasons of success. This is a very high expectation in a group of programmers which working in free times on freeware projects. Most of computer chess friends await Stockfish as the new number 1 in the near future. Stockfish is still in development and with each new version in the past the engine got big ELO jumping’s. This is a hard situation for all other commercials. Only the commercial engine Rybka 3 is around 60-70 ELO stronger with 64-Bit support and around 30 ELO stronger with 32-Bit support.
A very particularly and interesting fact because nevertheless Stockfish is still free available for everyone. Interview with Tord Romstad (Norway), Joona Kiiski (Finland) and Marco Costalba (Italy)īy Tord Romstad, Joona Kiiski, Marco Costalba & Frank QuisinskyĪt the moment Stockfish is the actual number 2 of all available chess engines.
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