Answers.Body: <p>Stockfish is not a chess <em>program</em>. It is a chess <em>engine</em>. It works together with a chess GUI, some of which cost money, like Fritz or Shredder, some of which are free, like <a href="http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/" rel="noreferrer">Scid vs PC</a> or <a href="http://www.playwitharena.de/" rel="noreferrer">Arena</a>.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>It's much easier to play Stockfish with the use of a GUI, but it's possible to manually use the stockfish executable via the command line if you want.</p>
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  <li>Go to the folder where you've installed stockfish.</li>
  <li>Open a terminal (e.g., on windows it could be powershell), and run stockfish with &quot;./&quot; followed by the name of the stockfish executable (no spaces). E.g., &quot;./stockfish&quot;, if you had renamed your executable to &quot;stockfish&quot;.</li>
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  <p>There are now a number of commands you can use. For a list of them and some explanations, go to <a href="https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish</a>, and then go to the section called &quot;The UCI protocol and available options&quot;. There you'll be able to download the UCI protocol text file.</p>
  <p>The main commands you'll probably want are the ones starting with &quot;go depth ...&quot;, &quot;position ...&quot;, and &quot;d&quot;. The &quot;go depth ...&quot; gets Stockfish to go to a certain depth and return what it believes to be the best move. The &quot;position ...&quot; commands let you set a new position, which you can do when getting what Stockfish wants to move, or what you want to move. Finally, &quot;d&quot; displays a visual of the position to you.</p>
  
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  <a href="https://github.com/franciscoBSalgueiro/en-croissant" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/franciscoBSalgueiro/en-croissant</a>
  And add a big free database.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I downloaded stockfish 15 ,the POPCNT version. It downloaded, but I don't know how to open it to play chess. Can you help me?</p>
  
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Title: I downloaded stockfish 15 ,the POPCNT version. It downloaded, but I don't know how to open it to play chess. Can you help me?
ThreadText: # I downloaded stockfish 15 ,the POPCNT version. It downloaded, but I don't know how to open it to play chess. Can you help me?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2022-09-26)
  
  I downloaded stockfish 15 ,the POPCNT version. It downloaded, but I don't know how to open it to play chess. Can you help me?
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2022-09-26. Score: 8
  
  Stockfish is not a chess *program*. It is a chess *engine*. It works together with a chess GUI, some of which cost money, like Fritz or Shredder, some of which are free, like [Scid vs PC](http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/) or [Arena](http://www.playwitharena.de/).
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2022-09-27. Score: 6
  
  It's much easier to play Stockfish with the use of a GUI, but it's possible to manually use the stockfish executable via the command line if you want.
  
  1. Go to the folder where you've installed stockfish.
  2. Open a terminal (e.g., on windows it could be powershell), and run stockfish with "./" followed by the name of the stockfish executable (no spaces). E.g., "./stockfish", if you had renamed your executable to "stockfish".
  
  There are now a number of commands you can use. For a list of them and some explanations, go to <https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish>, and then go to the section called "The UCI protocol and available options". There you'll be able to download the UCI protocol text file.
  
  The main commands you'll probably want are the ones starting with "go depth ...", "position ...", and "d". The "go depth ..." gets Stockfish to go to a certain depth and return what it believes to be the best move. The "position ..." commands let you set a new position, which you can do when getting what Stockfish wants to move, or what you want to move. Finally, "d" displays a visual of the position to you.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2024-03-01. Score: -1
  
  I installed en-croissant and add it as a engine.
  <https://encroissant.org/>
  <https://github.com/franciscoBSalgueiro/en-croissant>
  And add a big free database.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_4**: How does this answer the question? I see a link without any explanation.  
  
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