<p>The only open-source makruk engines I know of are:</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/CVfairy.html" rel="noreferrer">fairymax</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/chess-index.html" rel="noreferrer">Sjaak II</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ianfab/Makruk-Stockfish" rel="noreferrer">Stockfish</a></li>
</ul>

<p>The latter is my attempt of adapting Stockfish for makruk. Below you can find some recent <a href="https://github.com/ddugovic/Stockfish/issues/426#issuecomment-354451194" rel="noreferrer">test results</a>. I can not give an estimate of how these engines compare to strong human players though.</p>

<pre><code>Rank Name                          Elo     +/-   Games   Score   Draws 
1    stockfish-mak-f364111         359     103      80   88.8%   15.0%    
2    Bilis_v1.0                    127      65      80   67.5%   32.5%    
3    sjaakii-1.4.1                 -61      60      80   41.2%   40.0%    
4    fairymax-5.0b                -174      62      80   26.9%   38.8%    
5    NebiyuAlien                  -185      55      80   25.6%   46.2%
</code></pre>

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<p>There are open-source engines for chess, shogi (e.g. <a href="http://johncheetham.com/projects/gshogi/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">gShogi</a>), xiangqi (e.g. <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/xiangqi-engine/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">XiangQi Engine</a>) and other strategy board games. </p>

<p>Are there any open-source engines for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makruk" rel="nofollow noreferrer">makruk</a>? (I.e. not just freeware.)</p>

<p>Note: this is not a request for recommendations, but an attempt to find out whether any such open-source engines exist at all. I could not find any at the time when I posted this question.</p>

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Open source engine / software for makruk?
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# Open source engine / software for makruk?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-11-27)

There are open-source engines for chess, shogi (e.g. [gShogi](http://johncheetham.com/projects/gshogi/)), xiangqi (e.g. [XiangQi Engine](https://sourceforge.net/projects/xiangqi-engine/)) and other strategy board games.

Are there any open-source engines for [makruk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makruk)? (I.e. not just freeware.)

Note: this is not a request for recommendations, but an attempt to find out whether any such open-source engines exist at all. I could not find any at the time when I posted this question.

**Tags:** makruk


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-01-02. Score: 5

The only open-source makruk engines I know of are:

fairymax
Sjaak II
Stockfish

The latter is my attempt of adapting Stockfish for makruk. Below you can find some recent test results. I can not give an estimate of how these engines compare to strong human players though.
Rank Name                          Elo     +/-   Games   Score   Draws 
1    stockfish-mak-f364111         359     103      80   88.8%   15.0%    
2    Bilis_v1.0                    127      65      80   67.5%   32.5%    
3    sjaakii-1.4.1                 -61      60      80   41.2%   40.0%    
4    fairymax-5.0b                -174      62      80   26.9%   38.8%    
5    NebiyuAlien                  -185      55      80   25.6%   46.2%


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