Amifish is a chess program made to play chess with the Amiga-like systems,
exploiting the power of one of the most powerful chess engines of the world:
Stockfish, developed by Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski and Gary
Linscott. A chess engine is a console program who play chess, receiving
strings as commands and producing strings in output as result of computation.
Stockfish and much others engines are compatible with a standard named UCI
(Universal Chess Interface). The name Amifish is obtained by joining the words
'Amiga' and 'Stockfish' (although, however, the project is open to all engines
compliant with the UCI standard), is a light program for amateurs, is made to
have fun with chess, with only the most important options implemented.
To play against the computer, a chess engine is needed, to be downloaded from
another location.
Amifish is released as freeware and can be distributed in every non-commercial
form.
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