This (probably) marks the final release where akimbo's NNUE is wholly original, I have spent (wasted?) hundreds of hours of compute generating training data on 6 threads, and really cannot be bothered to do any more of it, so future releases will likely use external data. I have thus incremented the major version number to indicate this, as well as the fact that akimbo now contains all of the biggest functional features (SMP, DFRC, etc).
Main Features
- NNUE Speedups
- A few small search improvements
- Replaced oldest data with new data
- New network, trained on 1.5bn positions with arch
(768x4hm -> 1024)x2 -> 1
- Full Changelog: v0.8.0...v1.0.0
Self-Play against v0.8.0
Couldn't be bothered to run a full progtest, it should hopefully scale better due to the larger network.
Elo | 34.86 +- 16.92 (95%)
Conf | 40.0+0.40s Threads=1 Hash=128MB
Games | N: 350 W: 56 L: 21 D: 273
Penta | [0, 15, 113, 44, 3]
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