what is stockfish in chess

Stockfish is a free and open-source chess engine that is currently developed by an entire community. It is the strongest chess engine available to the public and has won more than 10 Top Chess Engine Championships so far. Stockfish was based on a chess engine created by Tord Romstad in 2004 that was developed further by Marco Costalba in 2008. Joona Kiiski and Gary Linscott are also considered founders. Stockfish is not only the most powerful available chess engine but is also extremely accessible. It is readily available on many platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, and Android. It can be used in chess software through the Universal Chess Interface). Other Stockfish-compatible graphical user interfaces (GUIs) include Fritz, Arena, Stockfish for Mac, and PyChess).