The new release improves many aspects of the search and also increases the number of hidden layer neurons from 512->768. Now BlackCore supports MultiPV search, keep in mind that enabling it drastically decreases playing strength.
Selfplay elo gain with Pohl opening book and 8+0.08s time control:
Result of BlackCore-v6-0 vs BlackCore-v5-1: 510 - 146 - 464 (0.66)
Ptnml: WW WD DD/WL LD LL
79 251 187 41 2
Elo difference: 117.16 +/- 15.76
This version also introduces an aesthetically more pleasing command line interface.
Sending the uci command automatically disables it.
Feel free to contact me with any questions or problems regarding BlackCore. For choosing a binary please see the installation section in the readme.
Changelog
- Pretty command line interface
- New network
- MultiPV
- Better mate reporting
- Improved time management
- Faster search
- Threshold based SEE
- Fixed memory overflow
- Razoring tweak
- New NMP scale (by Zuppa)
- Fixed search stack (by Disservin)
- Tuned search parameters
- More aggressive aspiration window