Chess engine: Stockfish 20092708 and NNUE

Stockfish - UCI chess engine, compiled by Stéphane Nicolet
Rating JCER=3294

Timestamp: 1601187890

Tweak nnue scaling to keep more material

Current master uses a constant scale factor of 5/4 = 1.25 for the output of the NNUE network, for compatibility with search and classical evaluation. We modify this scale factor to make it dependent on the phase of the game, going from about 1.5 in the opening to 1.0 for pure pawn endgames.

This helps Stockfish to avoid exchanges of pieces (heavy pieces in particular)

when she has the advantage, keeping more material on the board when attacking.

Passed STC:

LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) {-0.25,1.25}

Total: 14744 W: 1771 L: 1599 D: 11374 Elo +4.05

Ptnml(0-2): 87, 1184, 4664, 1344, 93

https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5f6fb0a63b22d6afa506904f

Passed LTC:

LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) {0.25,1.25}

Total: 8912 W: 512 L: 393 D: 8007 Elo +4.64

Ptnml(0-2): 7, 344, 3637, 459, 9

https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5f6fcf533b22d6afa5069066

Bench: 3943952

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