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Chess engine: Leorik 3.1.3 Dev JA (for Windows and Linux)


Leorik - UCI chess engine
Author-Thomas Jahn Rating Chess Engines Diary CEDR=2998

v.3.1:
Leorik 3.1 uses .Net 9 and has a stronger NNUE evaluation and an improved search.
The NNUE improvements include:

Larger network: Hidden-layer size increased from 256 to 640 neurons.
SCReLU Activation: replaces CReLU for better accuracy.
Trained from scratch: Training data collected from 19 generations of selfplay, starting with a zero-initialized network and high initial temperature.
New Network: 640HL-S-5288M-Tmix-Q5-v19 trained on 5.2 billion positions, gathered across generation 13 through 19.
The Search improvements include:

Correction History: static eval adjusted by search results on positions with similar features. (Compares Pawn, Knight|Bishop and Queen|Rook bitmasks) Wiki
Aggressive Late Move Reduction: Late quiet moves that do not improve the static eval are getting reduced by 4 instead of the usual 2.
Dynamic Late-Move Threshold: The history threshold that identifies quiet moves as 'late' now scales proportionally with the number of played moves.
Reverse-Futility-Pruning: Uses a dynamic margin computed from NMP statistics.

Leorik 3.0 vs other engines: 
Booot 7.32.5/10-510 games
Alexandria 6.02/10-610 games
Leptir 0702241/10-810 games
ShashChess 34.61/10-810 games
CorChess 202402091/10-810 games
Eman 9.901/10-810 games
Caissa 1.171/8-68 games
Brainlearn 270.5/8-78 games
Reckless 0.5.05/7+37 games
Cheng 4.463/7-17 games
Lizard 10.21/7-57 games
TDFA 1.1.06/6+66 games
Odonata 0.8.05.5/6+56 games
DanaSah 9.12.5/6-16 games
Clarity 5.0.02/6-26 games
Midnight 92/6-26 games
Kookaburra 2.001/6-46 games
SF-PRO 16.02.20241/6-46 games
Tenax 0.9.50.5/6-56 games
Stockfish 202402140.5/6-56 games
Altair 7.0.00/6-66 games


Jim Ablett compiles:
github:https://github.com/lithander/Leorik/releases/

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