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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 a chess variant engine supporting a large variety of chess variants, 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 lower performance.
+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.
-Besides chess, the currently supported variants are:
+Besides chess, the currently supported games are:
-**Regional and historical variants**
-- [Shatranj](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatranj)
+**Regional and historical games**
+- [Shatranj](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatranj), [Courier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courier_chess)
- [Makruk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makruk), [ASEAN](http://hgm.nubati.net/rules/ASEAN.html), Ai-Wok
- [Sittuyin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sittuyin)
-- [Shatar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatar)
-- [Minishogi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minishogi), [Kyoto shogi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_shogi), [EuroShogi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroShogi), [Judkins shogi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judkins_shogi), [Dobutsu shogi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dōbutsu_shōgi), [Goro goro shogi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Dbutsu_sh%C5%8Dgi#Variation)
+- [Shatar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatar), [Jeson Mor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeson_Mor)
+- [Shogi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogi)
-**Modern variants**
+**Chess variants**
+- [Capablanca](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capablanca_Chess), [Janus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Chess), [Embassy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_Chess)
- [Chess960](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960), [Placement/Pre-Chess](https://www.chessvariants.com/link/placement-chess)
- [Crazyhouse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazyhouse), [Loop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazyhouse#Variations), [Chessgi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazyhouse#Variations), [Pocket Knight](http://www.chessvariants.com/other.dir/pocket.html)
- [Amazon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(chess)), [Chigorin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chigorin_Chess), [Almost chess](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_Chess), [Hoppel-Poppel](http://www.chessvariants.com/diffmove.dir/hoppel-poppel.html)
- [Los Alamos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos_chess)
- [Horde](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunsany%27s_Chess#Horde_Chess)
+**Shogi variants**
+- [Minishogi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minishogi), [EuroShogi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroShogi), [Judkins shogi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judkins_shogi)
+- [Kyoto shogi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_shogi), [Microshogi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_shogi)
+- [Dobutsu shogi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dōbutsu_shōgi), [Goro goro shogi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Dbutsu_sh%C5%8Dgi#Variation)
+
**Related games**
- [Breakthrough](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_(board_game))
- [Clobber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clobber)
- [Connect4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect_Four), [Tic-Tac-Toe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe)
-**Large-board variants**
-- [Shogi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogi)
-- [Capablanca](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capablanca_Chess), [Janus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Chess), [Embassy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_Chess)
-- [Jeson Mor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeson_Mor)
-- [Courier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courier_chess)
-
See the [Fairy-Stockfish Wiki](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/wiki) for more info.
## Stockfish