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Chess engine: Stockfish 21101514 (Windows and Linux)



Stockfish - UCI chess engine, compiled by Stefano Cardanobile
Rating CEDR=3314 (2 place)

Timestamp: 1634302621
Smooth improving
Smooth dependency on improvement margin in null move search.

STC
LLR: 2.93 (-2.94,2.94) <-0.50,2.50>
Total: 17384 W: 4468 L: 4272 D: 8644 Elo +3.92
Ptnml(0-2): 42, 1919, 4592, 2079, 60
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/61689b8a1e5f6627cc1c0fdc

LTC
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,3.50>
Total: 45648 W: 11525 L: 11243 D: 22880 Elo +2.15
Ptnml(0-2): 26, 4731, 13036, 4997, 34
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/6168a12c1e5f6627cc1c0fe3

It would be interesting to test if the other pruning/reduction heuristics
in master which are using the improving variable (ie the sign of improvement)
could benefit from a smooth function of the improvement value (or maybe a
Relu of the improvement value).
Bench: 4916775

Stockfish 21101514 NNUE download

 

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