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[Homayoun]

Author: cj5716
Date: Sun Apr 21 14:50:04 2024 +0200
Timestamp: 1713703804

Tweak TT aging and replacement strategies

We change the definition of "age" from "age of this position" to "age of this TT entry".
In this way, despite being on the same position, when we save into TT, we always prefer the new entry as compared to the old one.

Passed STC:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00>
Total: 152256 W: 39597 L: 39110 D: 73549 Elo +1.11
Ptnml(0-2): 556, 17562, 39398, 18063, 549
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/ ... e4cefbf215

Passed LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,2.50>
Total: 51564 W: 13242 L: 12895 D: 25427 Elo +2.34
Ptnml(0-2): 24, 5464, 14463, 5803, 28
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/ ... e4cefc153e

closes #5184

Bench 1479416

https://abrok.eu/stockfish/

[Homayoun]

Author: gab8192
Date: Wed Apr 24 18:38:20 2024 +0200
Timestamp: 1713976700

Implement accumulator refresh table

For each thread persist an accumulator cache for the network, where each
cache contains multiple entries for each of the possible king squares.
When the accumulator needs to be refreshed, the cached entry is used to more
efficiently update the accumulator, instead of rebuilding it from scratch.
This idea, was first described by Luecx (author of Koivisto) and
is commonly referred to as "Finny Tables".

When the accumulator needs to be refreshed, instead of filling it with
biases and adding every piece from scratch, we...

1. Take the `AccumulatorRefreshEntry` associated with the new king bucket
2. Calculate the features to activate and deactivate (from differences
between bitboards in the entry and bitboards of the actual position)
3. Apply the updates on the refresh entry
4. Copy the content of the refresh entry accumulator to the accumulator
we were refreshing
5. Copy the bitboards from the position to the refresh entry, to match
the newly updated accumulator

Results at STC:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/ ... e4cefc1386
(first version)
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/ ... e4cefc6560
(final)

Non-Regression between first and final:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/ ... e4cefc660a

STC SMP:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/ ... e4cefc667c

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/S ... /pull/5183

No functional change

[Homayoun]

Author: Stefan Geschwentner
Date: Sun Apr 28 21:46:45 2024 +0200
Timestamp: 1714333605

More reduction at cut nodes which are not a former PV node

But the tt move and first killer are excluded.

This idea is based on following LMR condition tuning
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/ ... e4cefc0c71 by
using only the two largest terms P[0] and P[1].

Passed STC:
LLR: 2.93 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00>
Total: 173248 W: 45091 L: 44565 D: 83592 Elo +1.05
Ptnml(0-2): 693, 20534, 43673, 21002, 722
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/ ... e4cefc7d37

Passed LTC:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,2.50>
Total: 722394 W: 183231 L: 181487 D: 357676 Elo +0.84
Ptnml(0-2): 462, 80650, 197252, 82348, 485
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/ ... 253dcff7bf

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/S ... /pull/5199

Bench: 1619613
https://abrok.eu/stockfish/

[Homayoun]

Author: mstembera
Date: Wed May 1 14:17:32 2024 +0200
Timestamp: 1714565852

Accumulator cache bugfix and cleanup

STC:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/ ... bf7a511dc2
LLR: 2.98 (-2.94,2.94) <-1.75,0.25>
Total: 70304 W: 18211 L: 18026 D: 34067 Elo +0.91
Ptnml(0-2): 232, 7966, 18582, 8129, 243

1) Fixes a bug introduced in
https://github.com/official-stockfish/S ... /pull/5194. Only one
psqtOnly flag was used for two perspectives which was causing
wrong entries to be cleared and marked.
2) The finny caches should be cleared like histories and not at the
start of every search.

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/S ... /pull/5203

No functional change
see source
https://abrok.eu/stockfish/

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[Homayoun]

[Homayoun]

Author: Muzhen Gaming
Date: Sun May 5 15:11:53 2024 +0200
Timestamp: 1714914713

VVLTC search tune

This patch is the result of two tuning stages:
1. ~32k games at 60+0.6 th8:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/ ... 6764c7f817
2. ~193k games at 80+0.8 th6, based on PR #5211:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/ ... 8aa857ca00.
Based on extensive VVLTC tuning and testing both before and after
#5211, it is observed that introduction of new extensions positively
affected the search tune results.

Passed VVLTC 70+0.7 th7 1st sprt: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/ ... 0d85801409
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00>
Total: 18566 W: 4864 L: 4620 D: 9082 Elo +4.57
Ptnml(0-2): 0, 1608, 5827, 1844, 4

Passed VVLTC 70+0.7 th7 2nd sprt: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/ ... 0d85802ab7
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,2.50>
Total: 43142 W: 11141 L: 10838 D: 21163 Elo +2.44
Ptnml(0-2): 4, 3915, 13427, 4224, 1

Passed VVLTC 70+0.7 3rd sprt: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/ ... 0825aa230b
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,2.50>
Total: 40322 W: 10374 L: 10076 D: 19872 Elo +2.57
Ptnml(0-2): 1, 3660, 12544, 3952, 4

The first two sprts were run against passed #5211. The third sprt was
run against latest master.


Bench: 2180675

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[Homayoun]