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Using the Opening Book

Stockfish is compatible with PolyGlot (.bin) opening books. To use a book with Stockfish, place the file in the same location as the engine runtime. Then, use the UCI options to specify the file name of the book.

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Last Updated:
04 Aug, 2011 06:53 PM

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