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Ho ho ho it's tournament time. #103
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when exactly does the tournament start and which link to visit ? |
https://tcec-chess.com/ The submission deadline is somewhere in the middle of Christmas day (estimated: 18:30:49 2022-12-25) when the current TCEC tournament finishes. I understand @kz04px is working on an improved minifier that will allow some more outstanding strength patches to go in, but I wanted this set up, tested and ready in case something goes wrong. |
The TCEC tournament machine is currently
It's possible we get weaker with more threads at a certain point, but I don't have any way of testing this. If it's only 52 cores I'll try to get our threads closer to that, will update PR if I succeed. |
To make it easier to make the tournament deadline. * Bad bishop eval (kz04px#56). * Late move pruning changes (kz04px#78). * Improving variable (kz04px#83). * Include promotions in qsearch (kz04px#97). Also include kz04px#95 to make this exactly 4096 bytes, and put in tournament settings (hash/threads) that keep the size below target. vs master (432c06a): ELO | 18.58 +- 9.34 (95%) SPRT | 8.0+0.08s Threads=1 Hash=64MB LLR | 2.97 (-2.94, 2.94) [0.00, 5.00] GAMES | N: 3032 W: 945 L: 783 D: 1304
Some testing of 32 thread vs 16 thread on a 16c/32t machine ended up at Scaling from 8c to 16c in itself (i.e. only using real cores) is fine:
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good luck with that tournament! I will follow it. I think version #100 has about rating 2600+, using 10m+3s for test. Which other articipants are there ? |
https://github.com/ONE-RANDOM-HUMAN/we4k |
I've sent this version of the engine to the TCEC. Whether a newer submission is created in time remains to be seen. |
Updated to https://github.com/kz04px/4ku/releases/tag/v1.0 for the tournament. |
To make it easier to make the tournament deadline,
get a submission-ready branch set up.
Merges most of the outstanding strength patches:
Also include #95 to make this exactly 4096 bytes,
and put in tournament settings (hash/threads) that keep the size at exactly that.
vs master (432c06a):
ELO | 18.58 +- 9.34 (95%)
SPRT | 8.0+0.08s Threads=1 Hash=64MB
LLR | 2.97 (-2.94, 2.94) [0.00, 5.00]
GAMES | N: 3032 W: 945 L: 783 D: 1304