Best chess opening according to Stockfish

Introduction

Stockfish is a free and strong UCI chess engine. But above all, he's the best chess player in the world. This page presents the best first moves according to Stockfish 16. Stockfish run with a depth of 50 (ELO > 3000).

Here are the 22 first moves of the game (depth = 50):

1. e2e4 (0.27)
2. e7e5 (-0.18)
3. g1f3 (0.19)
4. b8c6 (-0.20)
5. f1c4 (0.23)
6. f8c5 (-0.21)
7. d2d3 (0.21)
8. g8f6 (-0.18)
9. c2c3 (0.22)
10. d7d6 (-0.14)
11. e1g1 (0.15)
12. a7a6 (-0.16)
13. a2a4 (0.19)
14. h7h6 (-0.14)
15. f1e1 (0.17)
16. e8g8 (-0.19)
17. h2h3 (0.13)
18. a6a5 (-0.12)
19. d3d4 (0.16)
20. c5b6 (-0.12)
21. c4b3 (0.10)
22. f8e8 (-0.20)

Stockfish command

To get the above sequence, I run the following commands to get the first move:

position startpos
go depth 50

Once the first move is calculated, I run the search on this first move:

position startpos moves e2e4
go depth 50

And so on:

position startpos moves e2e4 e7e5
go depth 50

Until the last one:

position startpos moves e2e4 e7e5 g1f3 b8c6 f1c4 f8c5 d2d3 g8f6 c2c3 d7d6 e1g1 a7a6 a2a4 h7h6 f1e1 e8g8 h2h3 a6a5 d3d4 c5b6 c4b3 f8e8
go depth 50

See also

• How to use Stockfish in command line

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