# Installer fairy-stockfish avec Homebrew, apt

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de fairy-stockfish pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:fairy-stockfish
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install fairy-stockfish
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install fairy-stockfish
```

  Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: fairy-stockfish from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:fairy-stockfish
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 14.0.1
- **Résumé source:** Strong open source chess variant engine (with largeboards support)
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://fairy-stockfish.github.io/>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/fairy-stockfish/Fairy-Stockfish>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- fairy-stockfish (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 14.0.1
## Historique du projet et usages

Fairy-Stockfish is a chess-variant engine derived from Stockfish. It keeps the Stockfish search lineage but extends it toward fairy chess, regional chess-like games, large boards, user-defined variants, and multiple engine protocols.

### Historique du projet

The official README describes Fairy-Stockfish as a Stockfish-derived engine designed for fairy chess variants and extensibility. Official releases visible through GitHub begin with the UEC11 and 10.x generation in 2019, then continue through Fairy-Stockfish 11 in 2020 and 13/14 releases in 2021.

The project broadened from a chess executable into a variant-engine platform. Its README documents UCI, UCCI, USI, UCI-cyclone, and CECP/XBoard support, user-defined variant configuration, NNUE network support, Python and JavaScript bindings, and WebAssembly ports.

### Historique d'adoption

Fairy-Stockfish is adopted mostly by the chess-variant ecosystem rather than ordinary chess users. The README points users to compatible GUIs and online play or analysis through pychess, lishogi, and lichess accounts, and describes `pyffish` being used by the pychess-variants server backend.

### Modes d'utilisation

Users run Fairy-Stockfish as an engine under a compatible GUI, connect it to online variant platforms, or use its bindings and WebAssembly ports for move generation, analysis, and game-rule handling. Its variant list covers regional games such as Xiangqi, Shogi, Janggi, Makruk, and many chess variants, plus user-defined rules.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

For package maintainers, Fairy-Stockfish is the variant counterpart to the familiar Stockfish package: a command-line engine binary with protocol compatibility, GPL licensing, optional neural-network assets, and a user base that cares about exact builds and engine strength.

### Chronologie

- 2019: Official GitHub releases include UEC11 and Fairy-Stockfish 10.x.
- 2020: Fairy-Stockfish 11, 11.1, and 11.2 released.
- 2021: Fairy-Stockfish 13, 13.1, 14, and 14.0.1 XQ released.

### Related projects

- Stockfish, pyffish, ffish.js, fairy-stockfish.wasm, pychess-variants, lishogi, lichess

### Sources

- <https://github.com/fairy-stockfish/Fairy-Stockfish>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fairy-stockfish/Fairy-Stockfish/master/README.md>
- <https://github.com/fairy-stockfish/Fairy-Stockfish/wiki>
- <https://fairy-stockfish.github.io/>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/fairy-stockfish/Fairy-Stockfish/releases?per_page=30>


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - fairy-stockfish - 11.1-1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: fairy-stockfish from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | chess variant engine including support for Chess, Shogi and XiangQi variants | https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish
- Ubuntu apt - fairy-stockfish - 11.1-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: fairy-stockfish from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | chess variant engine including support for Chess, Shogi and XiangQi variants | https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/fairy-stockfish.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/fairy-stockfish.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph