Stockfish 12 NNUE: Play and Analyze for Free
Stockfish 12, which is also known as Stockfish NNUE, is the latest version of the world’s most popular chess engine. Here at DecodeChess, you can play and analyze with Stockfish 12 for free!
What is Stockfish 12?
The Stockfish team constantly updates their chess engine, making it stronger in terms of its rating. With Stockfish 12, which was released in August 2020, the team announced that it’s stronger than the previous version by almost 100 ELO points, which is very significant. The big change in this release is the addition of an efficiently updatable neural network (NNUE).
Until NNUE, all chess concepts that were programmed into Stockfish, were weighed by humans in a very limited manner. With NNUE, the same chess concepts are integrated into the neural network, which weighs them by itself.
What is it like in terms of playing style?
The development team at DecodeChess reports that Stockfish NNUE is an aggressive, sacrifice-oriented playing machine. They also noticed that many of its moves are less intuitive. This makes it a very interesting chess program, as it might introduce new ideas which so far weren’t adopted by the chess community. This brings to mind the impact that Alphazero had on the chess community back in 2017.
Where can I get a hold of Stockfish 12?
Online access: Here at DecodeChess!
We not only let you analyze chess positions with Stockfish12, we even explain its moves! There’s no need to download anything, we offer it free online. simply head over to our desktop app and start decoding! You’ll have free access to Stockfish 12 and two Decode credits each day.
Playing against Stockfish 12
When playing against this version, or when analyzing positions with it, one is likely to get new insight and chess ideas. When confronting it with other chess programs, most chances are that Stockfish 12 will come out as the winner.
At DecodeChess, you can play against different strengths of Stockfish 12, by choosing the Play option from the menu:
Analyzing games with Stockfish 12
At DecodeChess you can analyze chess positions and moves with Stockfish 12 NNUE. Get the recommendations of SF12 explained with our AI algorithm and enjoy the most advanced chess analysis experience online:
Downloading SF12 to my computer
If you’re really interested in downloading Stockfish12 to your computer, head over to this page on the Stockfish website. Please note, you’ll need some technical knowledge to get this to work.
You can also get the basic SF12 on mobile devices. Stockfish 12 for android is available via the Droidfish app. Stockfish 12 for iOS is available via the Smallfish app.
