LTC Progression test
Elo | 14.89 +- 2.80 (95%)
Conf | 60.0+0.60s Threads=1 Hash=64MB
Games | N: 5000 W: 374 L: 160 D: 4466
Penta | [1, 103, 2083, 307, 6]
Progression test was run on the 8moves_v3.epd book.
Unbalanced LTC Progression test
Elo | 42.25 +- 4.53 (95%)
Conf | 60.0+0.60s Threads=1 Hash=64MB
Games | N: 5000 W: 1592 L: 987 D: 2421
Penta | [4, 283, 1327, 876, 10]
Progression test was run on the Pohl.pgn book.
Search Changes
- Improved NMP.
- Improved 3fold detection.
- Introduced Probcut.
- Tuned most of search.
- SE was manually tuned for better scaling on longer time controls.
- Introduced quiet move ordering tweaks based on static evaluation.
Eval Changes
- The net shipped with this release has a new arch, the input bucket count went from 1 to 16 and the HL has been shrinked from 2048 to 1536, resulting in a final arch of
(768->1536x16)x2->1x8. - Finny tables were added to greatly speed-up the evaluation.
Misc stuff
- Decreased stack usage fixing a rare crash on windows systems.
- Simplified movegen.
- Improved the makefile flag selection.
Full Changelog: v7.1.0...v8.0.0