Stockfish Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Stockfish? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Stockfish from Chess and what is the personality traits.
INTP (5w6)
Stockfish personality type is INTP, and yet he plays a computer program that is very much a creature of the intellect. I think it is probably more accurate to describe him as a "computer intellect" than a "computer personality."
I know a number of people who are INTPs, and they all seem to have a lot of fun playing their computer programs. When I mention to them that I am working on a new book about the importance of the Intuitive Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) in chess, they often express interest. And if they have a particular interest, they might be willing to provide some information that I could use for my new book.
For example, here is a chess legend who is an INTP. He has been a player at the highest levels of chess all of his life, and he is still a player at the highest levels of chess today. He has won, for example, the World Senior Chess Championship at the age of 80.
His name is Arpad Elo. He is now 89 years old. He is also an INTP.
Here is what Arpad Elo had to say about chess and the MBTI:
Stockfish is a free and open-source chess engine, available for various desktop and mobile platforms. It is developed by Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Gary Linscott, Tord Romstad, Stéphane Nicolet, Stefan Geschwentner, and Joost VandeVondele, with many contributions from a community of open-source developers. Stockfish is consistently ranked first or near the top of most chess-engine rating lists and is the strongest CPU chess engine in the world.
