Stockfish 16 uses a network file of ~48M which is embedded by default in the application.
This is not a big deal for now, but we may still want to change this because later we'll embed more weights used by other chess engines (Maia chess for offline computer play for instance, and a multi-variant stockfish version).
The vast majority of players don't need the strongest stockfish to evaluate their games, so Stockfish 11 would be a sane default.
Using a multi-stockfish plugin would allow the users to download on demand more versions of stockfish, and possibly later versions.
Stockfish 16 uses a network file of ~48M which is embedded by default in the application.
This is not a big deal for now, but we may still want to change this because later we'll embed more weights used by other chess engines (Maia chess for offline computer play for instance, and a multi-variant stockfish version).
The vast majority of players don't need the strongest stockfish to evaluate their games, so Stockfish 11 would be a sane default.
Using a multi-stockfish plugin would allow the users to download on demand more versions of stockfish, and possibly later versions.