Stockfish Variants, Why not Antichess ?

Recently 3 more variants added to Stockfish, many of us are wondering why antichess was not added among them since its such a popular variant?

I have heard from good sources that Antichess analysis should be here by the end of the week.

if this is true then this is great news. The antichess community will be thrilled with this feature :)

can stockfish beat me :p lool

We shall see :)

Thanks for your reply

i do hope your source is reliable in this case ^^

I saw the Github page for antichess stockfish, it is coming :)

@Dragon-Lord #3

Yes, Stockfish will definitely be able to beat you. Antichess, in my experience, is almost purely calculation, which is your computer's strongest point.

Well ive beaten stayalive from fics many times, if sf for anti is on the same level as sf for other variants that would mean level 8 would be considerably weaker than stayalive, unless im mistaken.

But like my friend knightmare said, We Shall see :D

#7 Actually, it's almost entirely opening book which is Stockfish's weakest point (since years ago the SF team dropped support for opening books). Maybe one day computers will be fast enough that lack of an opening book won't matter...

Actually, in a few cases it can already do well without an opening book. E.g. after 1. d3 it can find a forced win (#17) for black after a few seconds of thinking.