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Chess engine: Obsidian 12.0 NNUE



Obsidian, an UCI chess engine written in c++
Rating CEDR=3660

Obsidian 11 - results:
RubiChess 2024011217/34+034 Games
Black Marlin 9.022.5/33+1233 Games
Viridithas 12.0.021.5/33+1033 Games
Rebel 16.316.5/31+231 Games
Seer 2.8.015.5/30+130 Games
Caissa 1.1714.5/30-130 Games
Ethereal 14.2513.5/30-330 Games
Velvet 7.0.015.5/24+724 Games
Chess-System-Tal-211.5/22+122 Games
RofChade 3.111.5/20+320 Games
Uralochka 3.41 dev311/20+220 Games
Clover 6.111/20+220 Games
Clover 6.1.1910/19+119 Games
Equisetum 1.013/18+818 Games
Lizard 10.39/17+117 Games
Berserk 12.17.5/16-116 Games
Stockfish 16.16/16-416 Games
Velvet 7.1.010.5/15+615 Games
Fire 9.39.5/15+415 Games
Igel 3.5.58.5/13+413 Games
Berserk 202403115.5/12-112 Games


v.12.0:
The Elo gain of this update comes mostly from improvements of the neural network, however there were a few search tweaks too.
Due to the new type of neural network, v12.0 doesn't use anymore extra 150 MB of memory.
Lastly, I fixed some bugs here and there.

Obsidian 12.0 vs Obsidian 11.0 (STC)
Elo   | 56.70 +- 5.42 (95%)
Conf  | 10.0+0.10s Threads=1 Hash=16MB
Games | N: 8006 W: 2672 L: 1377 D: 3957
Penta | [9, 525, 1767, 1566, 136]
This new release is about on par with Berserk 12 (slightly stronger or slightly weaker depending on the time control).
The goal for the next release is to take down Dragon 3.3




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