!! latest version !!Windows x64 for Haswell CPUsWindows x64 for modern computers + AVX2Windows x64 for modern computersWindows x64 + SSSE3Windows x64Windows 32Linux x64 for Haswell CPUsLinux x64 for modern computers + AVX2Linux x64 for modern computersLinux x64 + SSSE3Linux x64Author: Joost VandeVondele
Date: Wed Sep 2 16:19:30 2020 +0200
Timestamp: 1599056370
Stockfish 12
Official release version of Stockfish 12
Bench: 3624569
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It is our pleasure to release Stockfish 12 to users world-wide
Downloads will soon be freely available at
https://stockfishchess.org/download/ This version 12 of Stockfish plays significantly stronger than
any of its predecessors. In a match against Stockfish 11,
Stockfish 12 will typically win at least ten times more game pairs
than it loses.
This jump in strength, visible in regular progression tests during
development[1], results from the introduction of an efficiently
updatable neural network (NNUE) for the evaluation in Stockfish[2],
and associated tuning of the engine as a whole. The concept of the
NNUE evaluation was first introduced in shogi, and ported to
Stockfish afterward. Stockfish remains a CPU-only engine, since the
NNUE networks can be very efficiently evaluated on CPUs. The
recommended parameters of the NNUE network are embedded in
distributed binaries, and Stockfish will use NNUE by default.
Both the NNUE and the classical evaluations are available, and
can be used to assign values to positions that are later used in
alpha-beta (PVS) search to find the best move. The classical
evaluation computes this value as a function of various chess
concepts, handcrafted by experts, tested and tuned using fishtest.
The NNUE evaluation computes this value with a neural network based
on basic inputs. The network is optimized and trained on the
evaluations of millions of positions.
The Stockfish project builds on a thriving community of enthusiasts
that contribute their expertise, time, and resources to build a free
and open source chess engine that is robust, widely available, and
very strong. We invite chess fans to join the fishtest testing
framework and programmers to contribute on github[3].
Stay safe and enjoy chess!
The Stockfish team
[1]
https://github.com/glinscott/fishtest/wiki/Regression-Tests [2]
https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/commit/84f3e867903f62480c33243dd0ecbffd342796fc [3]
https://stockfishchess.org/get-involved/ see source 
