Stockfish Pivotal Change

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Deberger
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Stockfish Pivotal Change

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NNUE was groundbreaking but tentative, now finally it's the default mode.

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option name Use NNUE type check default true
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Re: Stockfish Pivotal Change

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Good news! A new era for Stockfish confirmed!!!

Once Alexander of the Lc0 team wished to see all top 5 engines are NN. Now 2. Who next? Komodo 15? :lol:
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Re: Stockfish Pivotal Change

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One final improvement is necessary before Stockfish 12 can be released:

A robust installation for NNUE files.

1) ./configure
2) make
3) sudo make install

All done? Nope:

4) Manually copy the NNUE file to some directory
5) Configure the GUI to point to the NNUE directory

Ugh.

There are plenty of multi-platform programs with supplemental data.

Developers just need to chose one scheme and implement.