SF18 finally coming

[Jouni]

Stockfish 18 release candidate in github .

[jkominek]

Speaking for myself, and this is a personal preference, I'd rather that the Stockfish team time the release of SF18 to the exact latest allowable day before the TCEC Premier League commences. Like the unveiling of a new F1 car before the season's major Grand Prix.

[Graham Banks]

Speaking for myself, and this is a personal preference, I'd rather that the Stockfish team time the release of SF18 to the exact latest allowable day before the TCEC Premier League commences. Like the unveiling of a new F1 car before the season's major Grand Prix.

That's a long way off I suspect, plus the SF developers have their own timeline regardless.

[jkominek]

Speaking for myself, and this is a personal preference, I'd rather that the Stockfish team time the release of SF18 to the exact latest allowable day before the TCEC Premier League commences. Like the unveiling of a new F1 car before the season's major Grand Prix.

That's a long way off I suspect, plus the SF developers have their own timeline regardless.

Using Season 28 as a guide, one and a half months from now. The Season 28 Cup ended 2025-06-18. The Premier League began 2025-08-03.

But yes, the Stockfish team marches to their own sense of schedule. With having had a couple months to tune around their new Threat Input nets one can tell that they're feeling the time is due.

[pohl4711]

Speaking for myself, and this is a personal preference, I'd rather that the Stockfish team time the release of SF18 to the exact latest allowable day before the TCEC Premier League commences. Like the unveiling of a new F1 car before the season's major Grand Prix.

That's a long way off I suspect, plus the SF developers have their own timeline regardless.

SF development does not have a timeline. The normalized Elo progress in the SF-progression testruns in the SF-framework must reach +100 (in singlethread and multithreading testrun) to latest full release (SF 17 right now, not 17.1), as far as I understood.

[Ipmanchess]

// Version number or dev.
constexpr std::string_view version = "18";

[Werewolf]

Stockfish 18 release candidate in github .

It does seem close now

[MOBMAT]

where is it located?

[Geezer one]

where is it located?

It's on the github, in the official Stockfish site.
https://github.com/official-stockfish/S ... me-ov-file
Click the green 'Code' button and then click the 'Download ZIP' button.

[Modern Times]

Or here:

https://github.com/official-stockfish/S ... h/releases

Whether that will actually be SF18 remains to be seen. I though they still wanted more Elo gains before releasing.