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-Fairy-Stockfish is a 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 regional, historical, and modern chess variants as well as [games with user-defined rules](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/wiki/Variant-configuration). For [compatibility with graphical user interfaces](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/wiki/Usage) it supports the UCI, UCCI, USI, and CECP/XBoard protocols.
+Fairy-Stockfish is a 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 regional, historical, and modern chess variants as well as [games with user-defined rules](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/wiki/Variant-configuration). For [compatibility with graphical user interfaces](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/wiki/Graphical-user-interfaces) it supports the UCI, UCCI, USI, UCI-cyclone, and CECP/XBoard protocols.
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. Despite its generality the [playing strength](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/wiki/Playing-strength) is on a very high level in almost all supported variants. Due to its multi-protocol support Fairy-Stockfish works with almost any chess variant GUI.
## Installation
-You can download the [Windows executable](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/releases/latest/download/fairy-stockfish-largeboard_x86-64.exe) or [Linux binary](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/releases/latest/download/fairy-stockfish-largeboard_x86-64) from the [latest release](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/releases/latest) or [compile the program from source](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish#compiling-stockfish-yourself-from-the-sources). The program comes without a graphical user interface, so you perhaps want to use it together with a [compatible GUI](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/wiki/Usage#guis), or play against it right away online at [pychess](https://www.pychess.org/), [lishogi](https://lishogi.org/), [xichess](http://www.xichess.com/), or [lichess](https://lichess.org/@/Fairy-Stockfish). Read more about [how to use](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/wiki/Usage) Fairy-Stockfish in the wiki.
+You can download the [Windows executable](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/releases/latest/download/fairy-stockfish-largeboard_x86-64.exe) or [Linux binary](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/releases/latest/download/fairy-stockfish-largeboard_x86-64) from the [latest release](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/releases/latest) or [compile the program from source](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish#compiling-stockfish-yourself-from-the-sources). The program comes without a graphical user interface, so you perhaps want to use it together with a [compatible GUI](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/wiki/Graphical-user-interfaces), or [play against it online](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/wiki/Online) at [pychess](https://www.pychess.org/), [lishogi](https://lishogi.org/), [xichess](http://www.xichess.com/), or [lichess](https://lichess.org/@/Fairy-Stockfish). Read more about [how to use](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/wiki/Usage) Fairy-Stockfish in the wiki.
Optional NNUE evaluation parameter files to improve playing strength for selected variants can be obtained via [patreon](https://www.patreon.com/ianfab).
When NNUE evaluation is used, the `EvalFile` parameter needs to be adjusted accordingly as explained in the [wiki](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish/wiki/Settings#evalfile).
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