in the case of MultiPV, the first move of the Nth multiPV could actually turn a
winning position in a losing one, so don't attempt to correct it. Instead,
always perform the first move without correction.
Fixes#5505
Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5506
No functional change
now checks correctness of PV lines with TB score.
uses 3-4-5 man table bases, downloaded from lichess,
which are cached with the appropriate action.
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5500
No functional change
since master only tries nullmoves on cutNodes already with 99.0224% of the
cases running bench, We can try null moves at 100% of cutNodes and achieve such
simplification, by making passing false already equivalent to passing !cutNode
This is a more correct form of PR #5482
Passed non-regression STC:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/66941c044ff211be9d4ebf5f
LLR: 2.93 (-2.94,2.94) <-1.75,0.25>
Total: 153216 W: 39856 L: 39764 D: 73596
Ptnml(0-2): 590, 18174, 38979, 18284, 581
Passed non-regression LTC:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/6694e5cd4ff211be9d4ebfdf
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <-1.75,0.25>
Total: 67842 W: 17178 L: 17004 D: 33660
Ptnml(0-2): 52, 7437, 18759, 7631, 42
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5490
bench: 1345400
Co-Authored-By: FauziAkram <11150271+fauziakram@users.noreply.github.com>
This patch removes lmrDepth limit for quiet moves history based pruning.
Previously removal of this type of depth limits was considered bad because it
was performing bad for matetrack - but with this pruning heuristic this
shouldn't be that bad because it's "naturally" depth limited by history
threshold and should be completely disabled at depth >= 15 or so. Also this
heuristic in previous years was known to scale non-linearly - bigger lmrDepth
thresholds were better at longer time controls and removing it completely
probably should scale pretty well.
Passed STC:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/6692b89b4ff211be9d4eab21
LLR: 2.93 (-2.94,2.94) <-1.75,0.25>
Total: 114464 W: 29675 L: 29545 D: 55244
Ptnml(0-2): 372, 12516, 31329, 12640, 375
Passed LTC:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/6692c4554ff211be9d4eab3d
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <-1.75,0.25>
Total: 67746 W: 17182 L: 17014 D: 33550
Ptnml(0-2): 28, 6993, 19652, 7183, 17
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5485
Bench: 1250388
now uses the following format:
`info string Found 510 WDL and 510 DTZ tablebase files (up to 6-man).`
this clarifies exactly what has been found, as the difference matters,
e.g. for the PV extension of TB scores.
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5471
No functional change
- Capitalize comments
- Reformat multi-lines comments to equalize the widths of the lines
- Try to keep the width of comments around 85 characters
- Remove periods at the end of single-line comments
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5469
No functional change
In probcut move loop, everything is enclosed within a large if statement. I've
changed it to guard clauses to stay consistent with other move loops.
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5463
No functional change
Created by modifying L2 weights from the previous main net (nn-74f1d263ae9a.nnue)
with params found by spsa around 9k / 120k games at 120+1.2.
370 spsa params - L2 weights in nn-74f1d263ae9a.nnue where |val| >= 50
A: 6000, alpha: 0.602, gamma: 0.101
weights: [-127, 127], c_end = 6
To print the spsa params with nnue-pytorch:
```
import features
from serialize import NNUEReader
feature_set = features.get_feature_set_from_name("HalfKAv2_hm")
with open("nn-74f1d263ae9a.nnue", "rb") as f:
model = NNUEReader(f, feature_set).model
c_end = 6
for i in range(8):
for j in range(32):
for k in range(30):
value = int(model.layer_stacks.l2.weight[32 * i + j, k] * 64)
if abs(value) >= 50:
print(f"twoW[{i}][{j}][{k}],{value},-127,127,{c_end},0.0020")
```
Among the 370 params, 229 weights were changed.
avg change: 0.0961 ± 1.67
range: [-4, 3]
The number of weights changed, grouped by layer stack index,
shows more weights were modified in the lower piece count buckets:
[54, 52, 29, 23, 22, 18, 14, 17]
Found with the same method described in:
https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5459
Passed STC:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/668aec9a58083e5fd88239e7
LLR: 3.00 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00>
Total: 52384 W: 13569 L: 13226 D: 25589
Ptnml(0-2): 127, 6141, 13335, 6440, 149
Passed LTC:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/668af50658083e5fd8823a0b
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,2.50>
Total: 46974 W: 12006 L: 11668 D: 23300
Ptnml(0-2): 25, 4992, 13121, 5318, 31
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5466
bench 1300471
Always use the posix function posix_memalign() as aligned memory
allocator on Apple computers. This should allow to compile Stockfish
out of the box on all versions of Mac OS X.
Patch tested on the following systems (apart from the CI) :
• Mac OS 10.9.6 (arch x86-64-sse41-popcnt) with gcc-10
• Mac OS 10.13.6 (arch x86-64-bmi2) with gcc-10, gcc-14 and clang-11
• Mac OS 14.1.1 (arch apple-silicon) with clang-15
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5462
No functional change
Created by setting output weights (256) and biases (8) of the previous main net
nn-ddcfb9224cdb.nnue to values found around 12k / 120k spsa games at 120+1.2
This used modified fishtest dev workers to construct .nnue files from
spsa params, then load them with EvalFile when running tests:
https://github.com/linrock/fishtest/tree/spsa-file-modified-nnue/worker
Inspired by researching loading spsa params from files:
https://github.com/official-stockfish/fishtest/pull/1926
Scripts for modifying nnue files and preparing params:
https://github.com/linrock/nnue-pytorch/tree/no-gpu-modify-nnue
spsa params:
weights: [-127, 127], c_end = 6
biases: [-8192, 8192], c_end = 64
Example of reading output weights and biases from the previous main net using
nnue-pytorch and printing spsa params in a format compatible with fishtest:
```
import features
from serialize import NNUEReader
feature_set = features.get_feature_set_from_name("HalfKAv2_hm")
with open("nn-ddcfb9224cdb.nnue", "rb") as f:
model = NNUEReader(f, feature_set).model
c_end_weights = 6
c_end_biases = 64
for i in range(8):
for j in range(32):
value = round(int(model.layer_stacks.output.weight[i, j] * 600 * 16) / 127)
print(f"oW[{i}][{j}],{value},-127,127,{c_end_weights},0.0020")
for i in range(8):
value = int(model.layer_stacks.output.bias[i] * 600 * 16)
print(f"oB[{i}],{value},-8192,8192,{c_end_biases},0.0020")
```
For more info on spsa tuning params in nets:
https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5149https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5254
Passed STC:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/66894d64e59d990b103f8a37
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00>
Total: 32000 W: 8443 L: 8137 D: 15420
Ptnml(0-2): 80, 3627, 8309, 3875, 109
Passed LTC:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/6689668ce59d990b103f8b8b
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,2.50>
Total: 172176 W: 43822 L: 43225 D: 85129
Ptnml(0-2): 97, 18821, 47633, 19462, 75
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5459
bench 1120091
Currently (after #5407), SF has the property that any PV line with a decisive
TB score contains the corresponding TB position, with a score that correctly
identifies the depth at which TB are entered. The PV line that follows might
not preserve the game outcome, but can easily be verified and extended based on
TB information. This patch provides this functionality, simply extending the PV
lines on output, this doesn't affect search.
Indeed, if DTZ tables are available, search based PV lines that correspond to
decisive TB scores are verified to preserve game outcome, truncating the line
as needed. Subsequently, such PV lines are extended with a game outcome
preserving line until mate, as a possible continuation. These lines are not
optimal mating lines, but are similar to what a user could produce on a website
like https://syzygy-tables.info/ clicking always the top ranked move, i.e.
minimizing or maximizing DTZ (with a simple tie-breaker for moves that have
identical DTZ), and are thus an just an illustration of how to game can be won.
A similar approach is already in established in
https://github.com/joergoster/Stockfish/tree/matefish2
This also contributes to addressing #5175 where SF can give an incorrect TB
win/loss for positions in TB with a movecounter that doesn't reflect optimal
play. While the full solution requires either TB generated differently, or a
search when ranking rootmoves, current SF will eventually find a draw in these
cases, in practice quite quickly, e.g.
`1kq5/q2r4/5K2/8/8/8/8/7Q w - - 96 1`
`8/8/6k1/3B4/3K4/4N3/8/8 w - - 54 106`
Gives the same results as master on an extended set of test positions from
9173d29c41
with the exception of the above mentioned fen where this commit improves.
With https://github.com/vondele/matetrack using 6men TB, all generated PVs verify:
```
Using ../Stockfish/src/stockfish.syzygyExtend on matetrack.epd with --nodes 1000000 --syzygyPath /chess/syzygy/3-4-5-6/WDL:/chess/syzygy/3-4-5-6/DTZ
Engine ID: Stockfish dev-20240704-ff227954
Total FENs: 6555
Found mates: 3299
Best mates: 2582
Found TB wins: 568
```
As repeated DTZ probing could be slow a procedure (100ms+ on HDD, a few ms on
SSD), the extension is only done as long as the time taken is less than half
the `Move Overhead` parameter. For tournaments where these lines might be of
interest to the user, a suitable `Move Overhead` might be needed (e.g. TCEC has
1000ms already).
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5414
No functional change
To avoid output that depends on timing, output currmove and similar only from depth > 30
onward. Current choice of 3s makes the output of the same search depending on
the system load, and doesn't always start at move 1. Depth 30 is nowadays
reached in a few seconds on most systems.
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5436
No functional change
do not upload some unneeded intermediate directories,
disable running authenticated git commands with the checkout action.
Thanks to Yaron A for the report.
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5435
No functional change