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| !! latest version !!
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Linux x64 | Author: Joost VandeVondele
Date: Mon Jul 1 14:07:54 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1561982874
Smoothly change playing strength with skill level. (#2142)
The current skill levels (1-20) allow for adjusting playing strengths, but
do so in big steps (e.g. level 10 vs level 11 is a ~143 Elo jump at STC).
Since the 'Skill Level' input can already be a floating point number, this
patch uses the fractional part of the input to provide the user with
fine control, allowing for varying the playing strength essentially
continuously.
The implementation internally still uses integer skill levels (needed since they pick Depths),
but non-deterministically rounds up or down the used skill level such that the average integer
skill corresponds to the input floating point one. As expected, intermediate
(fractional) skill levels yield intermediate playing strenghts.
Tested at STC, playing level 10 against levels between 10 and 11 for 10000 games
level 10.25 ELO: 24.26 +-6.2
level 10.5 ELO: 67.51 +-6.3
level 10.75 ELO: 98.52 +-6.4
level 11 ELO: 143.65 +-6.7
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5cd9c6b40ebc5925cf056791
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5cd9d22b0ebc5925cf056989
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5cd9cf610ebc5925cf056906
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5cd9d2490ebc5925cf05698e
No functional change. | Windows x64 for Haswell CPUs
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Linux x64 | Author: Joost VandeVondele
Date: Mon Jul 1 14:07:23 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1561982843
Introduce coordination between searching threads (#2204)
this patch improves threading performance by introducing some coordination between threads.
The observation is that threading is an area where a lot of Elo can potentially be gained:
https://github.com/glinscott/fishtest/wiki/UsefulData#elo-from-threading
At STC, 8 threads gain roughly 320 Elo, vs sequential at the same time,
however, loses 66 Elo against a single thread with 8x more time.
This 66 Elo should be partially recoverable with improved threading.
To improve threading, this patch introduces some LMR at nodes that are already being searched by other threads.
This requires some coordination between threads, avoiding however synchronisation.
To do so, threads leave a trail of breadcrumbs to mark the nodes they are searching.
These breadcrumbs are stored in a small hash table, which is only probed at low plies (currently ply < 8).
A couple of variants of this patch passed both STC and LTC threaded tests.
I picked the simpler, more robust version.
I expect that further tests can find further improvements.
STC (5+0.05 @ 8 threads):
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.50,4.50]
Total: 26209 W: 5359 L: 5079 D: 15771 Elo +3.71
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d0a9b030ebc5925cf0a8e6f
LTC (20+0.2 @ 8 threads):
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 34832 W: 5650 L: 5382 D: 23800 Elo +2.67
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d0c67a20ebc5925cf0aafa7
other passed/tested variants:
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d0a9b030ebc5925cf0a8e6f
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d0c67ca0ebc5925cf0aafa9
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d0c67810ebc5925cf0aafa3
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d0958ca0ebc5925cf0a74c6
For the sequential code there is no change in bench, and an earlier version of this patch passed a non-regression test.
STC (10+0.1 @ 1 thread)
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 10471 W: 2364 L: 2220 D: 5887 Elo +4.78
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d087ee20ebc5925cf0a6381
passed the additional non-regression tests at 2 and 4 threads 20+0.2 TC. The code was rebased on master prior to testing.
2 threads:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 218863 W: 40927 L: 41153 D: 136783 Elo -0.36
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d18c6c30ebc5925cf0b9566
4threads:
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 16839 W: 3017 L: 2889 D: 10933 Elo +2.64
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d18c6ea0ebc5925cf0b9568
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