NNUE and game phase

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Sesse
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Re: NNUE and game phase

Post by Sesse »

Well, if you have a very cheap way of choosing between the nets (e.g. on total material), you wouldn't need to evaluate both (or all), so the Nps wouldn't necessarily go down the drain. But you'd still need to do all the training multiple times, and you'd still pay some of the costs, like the weights going out of your L3 cache.