Keep more pawns and pieces when attacking

This patch increase the weight of pawns and pieces from 28 to 32
in the scaling formula we apply to the output of the NNUE pure eval.

Increasing this gradient for pawns and pieces means that Stockfish
will try a little harder to keep material when she has the advantage,
and try a little bit harder to escape into an endgame when she is
under pressure.

STC:
LLR: 2.93 (-2.94,2.94) <-0.50,2.50>
Total: 53168 W: 4371 L: 4177 D: 44620
Ptnml(0-2): 160, 3389, 19283, 3601, 151
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/60cefd1d457376eb8bcab7ab

LTC:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,3.50>
Total: 10888 W: 386 L: 288 D: 10214
Ptnml(0-2): 3, 260, 4821, 356, 4
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/60cf709d2114332881e7352b

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3571

Bench: 4965430

diff --git a/src/evaluate.cpp b/src/evaluate.cpp
index fe1366147f6afa4226a531439a55944760ad8b85..1366d0fb2ab104abe86893bd942f94da524a78a8 100644 (file)
--- a/src/evaluate.cpp
+++ b/src/evaluate.cpp
@@ -1091,8 +1091,9 @@ Value Eval::evaluate(const Position& pos) {
       // Scale and shift NNUE for compatibility with search and classical evaluation
       auto  adjusted_NNUE = [&]()
       {
-
-         int scale = 903 + 28 * pos.count<PAWN>() + 28 * pos.non_pawn_material() / 1024;
+         int scale =   903
+                     + 32 * pos.count<PAWN>()
+                     + 32 * pos.non_pawn_material() / 1024;
 
          Value nnue = NNUE::evaluate(pos, true) * scale / 1024;