Andrew wrote: ↑Tue Nov 24, 2020 8:54 am
I've noticed with many puzzle/study positions, Crystal, some versions of SF and others are able to get a TB mate
score quickly. Then things vary, sometimes the mate score comes soon after sometimes never.
Seems to depend a lot on the endgame, for example sometimes I've seen the end of the PV be KBN endgames
and take a very long time to resolve. Maybe having DTM syzygy bases up to 4 piece could help with this?
Andrew
It would definitely help a lot to have fast 6 or 7 man DTM table base files.
Part of the problem here is that the Syzygy tablebase files do not have distance to mate. So the engine knows what moves win, but it does not know when.
It is not unusual for an engine that cannot find a mate score above 30000 to find a mate if you analyze with the tablebase files turned off because it is forced to search and it gets real scores for the moves. Even so, the tablebase files will often find a win where no tablebase files will miss it
That is why I keep the full 7 man nalimov files on SSD, so that I can find the pretty mate results. I would prefer Syzygy files, but I think the DTM project has dried up, or at least I have heard of no progress in a long time
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Andrew wrote: ↑Tue Nov 24, 2020 8:54 am
I've noticed with many puzzle/study positions, Crystal, some versions of SF and others are able to get a TB mate
score quickly. Then things vary, sometimes the mate score comes soon after sometimes never.
Seems to depend a lot on the endgame, for example sometimes I've seen the end of the PV be KBN endgames
and take a very long time to resolve. Maybe having DTM syzygy bases up to 4 piece could help with this?
Andrew
It would definitely help a lot to have fast 6 or 7 man DTM table base files.
Part of the problem here is that the Syzygy tablebase files do not have distance to mate. So the engine knows what moves win, but it does not know when.
It is not unusual for an engine that cannot find a mate score above 30000 to find a mate if you analyze with the tablebase files turned off because it is forced to search and it gets real scores for the moves. Even so, the tablebase files will often find a win where no tablebase files will miss it
That is why I keep the full 7 man nalimov files on SSD, so that I can find the pretty mate results. I would prefer Syzygy files, but I think the DTM project has dried up, or at least I have heard of no progress in a long time
One idea is to have an option : "Search for a mate when high score (>80.00)" and 2 sub options : "1) Use Syzygy" and "2) don't access Syzygy"
I know this will sometime take a lot of time to access Syzygy in hundreds of variations but it's OK for me. What would you expect from a very high score ? Only a mate score !
That would probably help sometimes.
But a single tablebase lookup would be a lot better and also provably minimal searches can be provided (depending on if the TB also understands e.p. and castle rights)
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Dann Corbit wrote: ↑Tue Nov 24, 2020 6:11 pm
That would probably help sometimes.
But a single tablebase lookup would be a lot better and also provably minimal searches can be provided (depending on if the TB also understands e.p. and castle rights)
One better idea :
- when the best score is not a mate then access only the DTZ files (to get an upper value of the distance to mate)
- when the best score is a mate then access only the WDL files (to find the shortest mate)
jhellis3 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 8:11 pm
Decided it was an appropriate time for release.
Changes since 2.0:
Various bugfixes mostly due to members of the community pointing out usage issues to me.
Some minor eval smoothing (simple linear interpolation between previous value).
Introduction of NNUE. For now, NNUE is either on or off, there is no hybrid method involved or available.
