Download Stockfish 18

Note: Stockfish is a command line program. You may want to use it in your own chess GUI.

Windows (x64)

AVX2

Recommended for most users | Intel (2013+) and AMD (2015+)

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POPCNT

A bit slower than AVX2 | Intel (2008+) and AMD (2011+)

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AVX-512ICL

Fastest | Intel (Ice Lake and Rocket Lake) and AMD (Zen 4 and newer)

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VNNI-512

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AVX-512

A bit faster than BMI2 | Intel Skylake-X and Cascade Lake-X

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AVX-VNNI

A bit faster than BMI2 | Intel Alder Lake and newer

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BMI2

A bit faster than AVX2 | Intel (2013+) and AMD Zen 3

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64-bit

Very slow, but works on all 64-bit CPUs

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Note for systems with more than 64 threads: Consider setting NumaPolicy to hardware if Stockfish doesn't utilize all threads.

Read more about NUMA configuration in the official documentation.

ARM

Android ARMv8

Recommended for most users

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Windows ARMv8

Recommended for most users

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Linux (x64)

AVX2

Recommended for most users | Intel (2013+) and AMD (2015+)

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POPCNT

A bit slower than AVX2 | Intel (2008+) and AMD (2011+)

Download

AVX-512ICL

Fastest | Intel (Ice Lake and Rocket Lake) and AMD (Zen 4 and newer)

Download

VNNI-512

Download

AVX-512

A bit faster than BMI2 | Intel Skylake-X and Cascade Lake-X

Download

AVX-VNNI

A bit faster than BMI2 | Intel Alder Lake and newer

Download

BMI2

A bit faster than AVX2 | Intel (2013+) and AMD Zen 3

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64-bit

Very slow, but works on all 64-bit CPUs

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macOS

Apple Silicon

Recommended for modern Macs

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Alternative methods:

🐟 Stockfish Chess

Recommended macOS App (GitHub)

App Store

🍺 Homebrew

Install via Terminal: brew install stockfish

Homebrew

iOS

🐟 SmallFish

Recommended iOS App

App Store

Download Stockfish 18

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