diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/st/stockfish/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/st/stockfish/package.nix
index 9aea351623ff..3ac27539e6da 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/st/stockfish/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/st/stockfish/package.nix
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   stdenv,
   fetchurl,
   fetchFromGitHub,
+  versionCheckHook,
   _experimental-update-script-combinators,
   nix-update-script,
   writeShellApplication,
@@ -70,6 +71,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  nativeInstallCheckInputs = [
+    versionCheckHook
+  ];
+  doInstallCheck = true;
+  versionCheckProgram = "${placeholder "out"}/bin/stockfish";
+  versionCheckProgramArg = "--help";
+
   passthru = {
     updateScript = _experimental-update-script-combinators.sequence [
       (nix-update-script {