New version chess engine: Texel 1.11 NNUE

Texel - UCI Chess engines
Rating CEDR=3445, Author - Peter Osterlund

v.1.11:

(ELO: +63)

Neural network improvements:

Fewer non-incremental updates of the first layer state.

Implement quantization aware training.

Better GPU utilization by using separate data loading threads.

Efficiently handle training data that is too large to fit in RAM.

Train a new network based on new training data evaluated by Texel 1.10.

Optionally use AVX-512 instructions.

Other:

Re-calibrate UCI_Elo for NNUE.

Fix a null-move verification problem.

Update GoogleTest code to version 1.14 to fix warnings when using new CMake versions.

Add state to the Square class, i.e. make it contain the square number.

Rating CEDR progres - Texel

Pl	Engine	Rating	Score	Games	%
828	Texel 1.10	3445.8	503.50	1036	48.60
837	Texel 1.0	3433.9	49.50	86	57.56
897	Texel 1.09	3356.1	361.00	893	40.43
963	Texel 1.08	3269.0	114.50	239	47.91
1006	Texel 1.08a13	3212.2	91.50	163	56.13

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