Adding CITATION.cff to repo about stockfish HOT 3 CLOSED

I think that's a reasonable thing to do. I have added (pull request) a first try, comments welcome.

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To see if this is useful, I was wondering in what context one would refer to Stockfish in a publication. It could be something like this

All our experiments were performed using the very strong chess engine "Stockfish" [5].

So yes, it seems reasonable to have a standard way of citing Stockfish, even though Stockfish itself is not a publication (not in a standard sense anyway).

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Yeah you're right, simply to have a citation corresponding with the Stockfish engine's first mention in the paper.

I am doing some reinforcement learning, and want to use Stockfish (specifying Elo) as a benchmark. That way, I can get a rough idea of my model's Elo, as a function of training and also model architecture(s).

In the 2017 paper Who is the Master?, they used Stockfish 6, but never properly cited Stockfish imo. Directly integrating with CITATION.cff makes citing Stockfish easy.

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