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Wordfish 3.20 101125 - new version chess engine

 

Wordfish is a free, open-source UCI chess engine implementing cutting-edge search algorithms combined with neural network evaluation. Derived from fundamental chess programming principles, Wordfish analyzes positions through parallelized alpha-beta search enhanced with null-move pruning and late move reductions.

Author: Jorge Ruiz Centelles and the Stockfish developers

Wordfish 3.20 101125 what's new?

Added UCI options to enable the live book, configure its endpoint, timeout, depth, diversity, contribution flag, and the Lichess tablebase URL exposed by the engine.

Updated the search/livebook stack to sanitize configurable URLs, apply configurable cURL timeouts, reuse ChessDB defaults, and expose helpers for building Lichess tablebase queries.

Routed Lichess endgame and tablebase lookups through the shared URL builder with graceful fallbacks when the user clears the endpoint.

Updated the README to present the Wordfish-3.20-101125 branding and describe the new binary identifier example for builders.

Set the engine name constants and build defaults to Wordfish-3.20-101125 so GUIs display the rebranded identity consistently.

Refreshed the changelog and tooling scripts to reference the Wordfish-3.20-101125 executable name throughout the project.


Wordfish 2.50 vs other engines:

Lambergar 1.39.5/10+910 Games
Alexander 6.09.5/10+910 Games
Zangdar 56.5/10+310 Games
Halogen 15.4.26.5/10+310 Games
Revolution 2.70 dev-2109255/10+010 Games
Alexandria 8.1.25/10+010 Games
Raid 4.04.5/9+09 Games
Yakka 1.37.5/8+78 Games
Rebel Extreme 1.17/8+68 Games
Fire 10 mingw5/8+28 Games
Caissa 1.234.5/8+18 Games
YuliGM Pro 204/8+08 Games
Spirit XXL4/8+08 Games
Pawnocchio 1.8.14/8+08 Games
Claw 3.0-M4/8+08 Games
HypnoS ++ 1.034/8+08 Games
SF SE-2408254/8+08 Games
ShashChess 39.14/8+08 Games
SF-POLY 2008254/8+08 Games
DarkZoryn 2.04/8+08 Games
PlentyChess 6.0.184/8+08 Games


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