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Tcheran 7.0 - new version chess engine

 


Tcheran - UCI chess engine  Author: Jonathan Gilchrist
Rating Chess Engines Diary CEDR=2242

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Tcheran 7.0 what's new?

Network #2, trained with bullet's main branch with the same parameters as before (48.88 +- 14.81)
Network #3, retrained in the same way (and with the same data) as #2, but after re-shuffling the dataset (17.29 +- 8.50)
Network #4, keeping the exact same architecture and training params as #3, but trained on ~450k FENs (89.86 +- 20.11)
Network #5, with no changes to architecture or training, but trained using a fresh ~120k FEN dataset after fixing a crucial datagen bug re. accidentally inverted WDL scores (108.74 +- 20.12)
Network #6, same as #5 but trained using increased (0.3) WDL proportion and reduced (0.001) learning rate (53.33 +- 15.20)
Skip bad captures in quiescence search (43.07 +- 13.42)
Use less time if the best move is stable (9.34 +- 5.77)
Do tranposition table cutoff comparison on the mate-adjusted score (1.72 +- 3.81)
Misc
Fix TT mate scores being stored without root/position correction
Hide transposition table implementation details in its module
datagen now saves data in viriformat


Author test:
Elo   | 287.23 +- 11.29 (95%)
Conf  | 8.0+0.08s Threads=1 Hash=16MB
Games | N: 4096 W: 3042 L: 262 D: 792
Penta | [5, 34, 275, 644, 1090]
Elo   | 276.75 +- 21.30 (95%)
Conf  | 40.0+0.40s Threads=1 Hash=128MB
Games | N: 1024 W: 729 L: 51 D: 244
Penta | [2, 5, 66, 191, 248]


Tcheran 5.1 vs other engines:
Fortuna 1.0 JA4/4+44 Partii
Aurora 202410072.5/4+14 Partii
JudaS ++ 5.01/4-24 Partii
ShashChess 380/4-44 Partii
Alexander 4.00/4-44 Partii
DarkSeid 5.20/4-44 Partii
Artemis 6TR0/4-44 Partii
Lambergar 1.00/4-44 Partii
Halcyon 12/3+13 Partii
Chessplusplus 1.2.02/3+13 Partii
Belette 3.0.00.5/3-23 Partii
Zeta-Dva 0402 JA2/2+22 Partii
Albatros 1.0.02/2+22 Partii
MadChess 3.2.22/2+22 Partii
Zagreus 5.02/2+22 Partii
Dinora 0.3.02/2+22 Partii
Omelette 1.0 JA2/2+22 Partii
Camel 1.6.02/2+22 Partii
StoneChess 2024-09-132/2+22 Partii
Amy 0.9.6-pre AB JA2/2+22 Partii
Ssehc 1.02/2+22 Partii

 

Tcheran engine top results:


Sample batch of this engine:

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[Event "2024.09.14.NewEnginesTest"] [Site "Chess Engines Diary"] [Date "2024.09.17"] [Round "1.32"] [White "Tcheran 3.0"] [Black "StoneChess 2024-09-13"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B00"] [PlyCount "72"] [EventDate "2024.??.??"] {[%evp 0,72,19,31,42,25,25,33,56,29,66,76,56,24,36,21,11,4,-5,-3,16,4,10,-56,-5,-36,-18,-61,-61,-18,-15,-1,7,3,-6,-10,5,-13,9,3,10,13,10,49,46,43,67,31,56,45,49,47,71,43,90,58,61,73,114,133,184,186,153,187,235,243,654,652,873,1006,2044,2497,29979,29984,29985]} 1. e4 Nc6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 f6 4. Nf3 g5 5. h3 Bg7 6. Bb5 Nh6 7. O-O O-O 8. Re1 g4 9. hxg4 Bxg4 10. Bxc6 bxc6 11. e6 Qd6 12. Qe2 Nf5 13. c3 c5 14. Qc2 Bxf3 15. dxc5 Qc6 16. Qxf5 Be4 17. Qh3 Qxc5 18. Be3 Qb5 19. Nd2 Bg6 20. b3 Qd3 21. Nf3 c6 22. Rac1 Qa6 23. a4 Rfb8 24. Nd4 Rb7 25. b4 Rc8 26. a5 c5 27. bxc5 Rxc5 28. Nb3 Rcb5 29. Nc5 Qxa5 30. Nxb7 Rxb7 31. Red1 Rc7 32. Qf3 Be4 33. Qxe4 Rxc3 34. Qb1 Rxc1 35. Qb8+ Bf8 36. Rxc1 h5 1-0

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