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Stockfish

Stockfish

software
Last discussed Oct 19, 2026

An open-source, highly powerful chess engine widely regarded as one of the strongest chess programs in the world.

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Cal Newport
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Praised: Runs on a laptop vs: Contrasted with giant frontier LLMs

"You can run Stockfish, the chess engine that can play chess better than a human. You can run that on a laptop."

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"Stockfish never goes rogue."

"Talk about Tesla self-driving. Talk about AlphaFold. Talk about AlphaGo. Talk about Dreamer V3. Talk about Cicero. Talk about Pluribus. Talk about ..."

John Coogan
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"There's no fun and you can always just go play against the best Stockfish model if you want. Like you can just max it out if you just want to play against the best computer in the world. Nobody does."

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"A really good model would just be like, I'm going to go download Stockfish and just run the actual chess engine."

Salim Ismail
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vs: Used as historical precedent for AI surpassing humans without eliminating hum...

"Just like we've seen before when Stockfish started beating everybody in chess, people still play chess and people are still going to have ideas."

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vs: Contrasted with watching Magnus Carlsen play, which audiences prefer despite ...

"If you watch Stockfish, the moves are alien moves. That move makes no sense. Then it just turns out that it's good."

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Aric Floyd
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"There was probably an era when the AIs were just about as good as humans and people could say, for the sake of keeping my brain active, I'm going to avoid looking at Stockfish, even though 10% of the time I'll miss a better move."

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