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-Fairy-Stockfish is a Stockfish fork designed for the support of (fairy) chess variants and to make the addition/configuration of new variants as simple and flexible as possible. The goal of the project is to create an engine supporting a large variety of chess-like games, equipped with the powerful search of Stockfish. It is complementary to Stockfish forks more specialized for certain chess variants, such as [multi-variant Stockfish](https://github.com/ddugovic/Stockfish), [Seirawan-Stockfish](https://github.com/ianfab/Seirawan-Stockfish), [Makruk-Stockfish](https://github.com/ianfab/Makruk-Stockfish), etc., supporting more variants with the tradeoff of slightly lower performance.
+Fairy-Stockfish is a UCI/USI chess variant engine derived from [Stockfish](https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/) designed for the support of fairy chess variants and easy extensibility with more games. It can play various historical, regional, and modern chess variants as well [games with user-defined rules](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/wiki/Variant-configuration).
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+The goal of the project is to create an engine supporting a large variety of chess-like games, equipped with the powerful search of Stockfish. It is complementary to Stockfish forks more specialized for certain chess variants, such as [multi-variant Stockfish](https://github.com/ddugovic/Stockfish), [Seirawan-Stockfish](https://github.com/ianfab/Seirawan-Stockfish), [Makruk-Stockfish](https://github.com/ianfab/Makruk-Stockfish), etc., supporting many more variants with the tradeoff of slightly lower performance compared to a specialized implementation.
## Supported games
-The games that are currently supported besides chess are listed below. Fairy-Stockfish can also play user-defined variants loaded via a variant configuration file, see the file `src/variants.ini`.
+The games currently supported besides chess are listed below. Fairy-Stockfish can also play user-defined variants loaded via a variant configuration file, see the file `src/variants.ini`.
### Regional and historical games
- [Shatranj](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatranj), [Courier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courier_chess)