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Chess engine: Stockfish 20022008

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Stockfish - UCI chess engine, compiled by Protonspring

 Timestamp: 1582183937
Updated KNNKP endgame.

 This is a patch that significantly improves playing KNNKP endgames:
```Score of 2553 vs master: 132 - 38 - 830 [0.547] 1000
Elo difference: 32.8 +/- 8.7, LOS: 100.0 %, DrawRatio: 83.0 %
```
At the same time it reduces the evaluation of this mostly draw engame
from ~7.5 to ~1.5
This patch does not regress against master in normal games:
STC
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) {-1.50,0.50}
Total: 96616 W: 18459 L: 18424 D: 59733 Elo +0.13
Ptnml(0-2): 1409, 10812, 23802, 10905, 1380
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5e49dfe6f8d1d52b40cd31bc

 LTC
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) {-1.50,0.50}
Total: 49726 W: 6340 L: 6304 D: 37082 Elo +0.25
Ptnml(0-2): 239, 4227, 15906, 4241, 250
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5e4ab9ee16fb3df8c4cc01d0

 Theory: KNNK is a dead draw, however the presence of the additional weakSide pawn opens up some mate opportunities. The idea is to block the pawn (preferably behind the Troitsky line) with one of the knights and press the weakSide king into a corner. If we can stalemate the king, we release the pawn with the knight (to avoid actual stalemate), and use the knight to complete the mate before the pawn promotes. This is also why there is an additional penalty for advancement of the pawn.
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2553
Bench: 4981770

 Stockfish 20022008 download

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