Minic version 3

[xr_a_y]

Longer TC performances of this new net looks promising also, here at 10min+5s :

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   # PLAYER       :  RATING  ERROR  POINTS  PLAYED   (%)  CFS(%)
   1 3.04_NoNo    :    90.8   19.6   392.5     670    59     100
   2 3.04_NiNy    :    55.3   18.2   343.5     670    51     100
   3 3.04         :     0.0   ----   264.0     660    40     ---

[xr_a_y]

Looks like NoNo likes threading

TC 10s+0.1

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   # PLAYER         :  RATING  ERROR  POINTS  PLAYED   (%)  CFS(%)
   1 3.04_NoNo_8    :   278.4   41.2   221.0     330    67     100
   2 3.04_NiNy_8    :   219.6   38.9   188.0     330    57      73
   3 3.04_8         :   209.2   38.2   182.0     330    55     100
   4 3.04_NoNo_1    :     0.0   ----    69.0     330    21     ---

8 threads versus only 1, head to head ...

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3.04_NoNo_8 vs 3.04_NoNo_1: 79 - 1 - 30  [0.855]

[Modern Times]

I'm happy to release Minic3.04 with some end-game fixes and a new net named "Noisy Notch".

https://github.com/tryingsomestuff/Mini ... s/tag/3.04
https://github.com/tryingsomestuff/NNUE-Nets

Almost +70 Elo after the first batch of chess960 games I've played.

http://ccrl.chessdom.com/ccrl/404FRC/cg ... _length=30

[xr_a_y]

I'm happy to release Minic3.04 with some end-game fixes and a new net named "Noisy Notch".

https://github.com/tryingsomestuff/Mini ... s/tag/3.04
https://github.com/tryingsomestuff/NNUE-Nets

Almost +70 Elo after the first batch of chess960 games I've played.

http://ccrl.chessdom.com/ccrl/404FRC/cg ... _length=30

Great !

And thanks to the CCRL crew for the blitz testing also (http://ccrl.chessdom.com/ccrl/404/cgi/c ... +opponents)

[xr_a_y]

BTW I may have a surprise soon, changing the net architecture for a smaller one I gain a lot of speed and some Elo ...

#teasing

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minic_3.04_noisy_notch vs minic_dev_dev: 25 - 50 - 64

[xr_a_y]

I'd like to share with you 3 works in progress about Minic.

1) I was able to train a smaller net which is stronger than noisy notch at short TC by about 20Elo and looks even at longer one. This soon may be released as Minic3.05 + Nibbled Nutshell. But I need to confirm first that progress can still be made on that new architecture.

2) I am now using a new fen generation process that seems promising. More on this later, just teasing.

3) I'm almost done porting Minic to a distributed memory model. This will fun for those how have a big cluster available Using the same concept as for threading, namely a lock free somehow shared transposition table is it quite easy to achieve this. One sided mpi comms (window) help at some point but playing it smart it is also possible with more standard asynchronous two sided comms.

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

I have some problem with this engine. I'm using the program Cutechess 1.2 under Windows 10 x64. Engine is loading but cannot - noisy_notch.bin. Maybe someone knows why this is happening.

[bastiball]

Goodluck for next Minic 3.05 !

[xr_a_y]

I have some problem with this engine. I'm using the program Cutechess 1.2 under Windows 10 x64. Engine is loading but cannot - noisy_notch.bin. Maybe someone knows why this is happening.

If you describ the issue a little more, I probably can help.

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

Thank you very much for your reply. After installing the engine and after configuring the engine Minic 3.04 (picture below), you are not sure if the engine loaded correctly noisy_notch.bin