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Chess engine: Stockfish 20022521


Stockfish - UCI chess engine, compiled by 31m059

Timestamp: 1582661022
Use single param for Outpost and ReachableOutpost.

In November 2019, as a result of the simplification of rank-based outposts by 37698b0, separate bonuses were introduced for outposts that are currently occupied and outposts that are reachable on the next move. However, the values of these two bonuses are quite similar, and they have remained that way for three months of development.

It appears that we can safely retire the separate ReachableOutpost parameter and use the same Outpost bonus in both cases, restoring the basic principles of Stockfish outpost evaluation to their pre-November state, while also reducing the size of the parameter space.

STC:
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) {-1.50,0.50}
Total: 47680 W: 9213 L: 9092 D: 29375 Elo +0.88
Ptnml(0-2): 776, 5573, 11071, 5594, 826
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5e51e33190a0a02810d09802

LTC:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) {-1.50,0.50}
Total: 14690 W: 1960 L: 1854 D: 10876 Elo +2.51
Ptnml(0-2): 93, 1381, 4317, 1435, 119
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5e52197990a0a02810d0980f
Bench: 4697493

Stockfish 20022521 download




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