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New version chess engine for Android: Viridithas 9.0.0

 

Chess engine: Viridithas
Rating CEDR=3088

v.9.0.0:
Upgrades:
Square the CReLU activations of the feature transformer (35.8 +/- 11.6) (#19)
Reduce the restrictions on NMP (4.78 +- 3.22) (#20)
Add Counter-Move History (2.91 +- 2.26) (#21)
Staged Capture/Quiet move-generation (6.87 +- 4.89) (#22)
Batch history updates (3.95 +- 4.20) (#24)
Add refutations to staged move-generation (3.02 +- 2.37) (#25)
Train network on a bigger dataset (6.95 +- 4.99) (#26)
Exit the movepicker early on finding a losing move (5.37 +- 4.09) (#29)
More robust NMP (3.46 +- 2.76) (#30)
New time-management design (5.8 +/- 4.1) (#31)
Try move from the TT in quiescence search (7.46 +- 5.12 & 4.35 +- 3.44) (#32 & #33)
Try full-depth nullwindow search before fullwindow search if LMR-ed search beats alpha (29.59 +- 11.26) (#34)
Train NNUE using AdamW instead of Adam (10.16 +- 6.37) (#36)
Add capture history (3.13 +- 2.50) (#39)
Remove dead code in quiescence search (1.41 +- 3.82) (#41, thanks @archishou!)
Add Contempt (#43)

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