From: Stéphane Nicolet <cassio@free.fr>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 21:19:53 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Tweak nnue scaling to keep more material
X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?p=stockfish;a=commitdiff_plain;h=1dbd2a1ad548b3ca676f7da949e1a998c64b836b;hp=f66c381f11b8603e2449b200227c8cfd7382b3ba

Tweak nnue scaling to keep more material

Current master uses a constant scale factor of 5/4 = 1.25 for the output
of the NNUE network, for compatibility with search and classical evaluation.
We modify this scale factor to make it dependent on the phase of the game,
going from about 1.5 in the opening to 1.0 for pure pawn endgames.

This helps Stockfish to avoid exchanges of pieces (heavy pieces in particular)
when she has the advantage, keeping more material on the board when attacking.

Passed STC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) {-0.25,1.25}
Total: 14744 W: 1771 L: 1599 D: 11374
Ptnml(0-2): 87, 1184, 4664, 1344, 93
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5f6fb0a63b22d6afa506904f

Passed LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) {0.25,1.25}
Total: 8912 W: 512 L: 393 D: 8007
Ptnml(0-2): 7, 344, 3637, 459, 9
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5f6fcf533b22d6afa5069066

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3154

Bench: 3943952
---

diff --git a/src/evaluate.cpp b/src/evaluate.cpp
index 1503be2d..710898bc 100644
--- a/src/evaluate.cpp
+++ b/src/evaluate.cpp
@@ -1022,7 +1022,10 @@ Value Eval::evaluate(const Position& pos) {
   else
   {
       // Scale and shift NNUE for compatibility with search and classical evaluation
-      auto  adjusted_NNUE = [&](){ return NNUE::evaluate(pos) * 5 / 4 + Tempo; };
+      auto  adjusted_NNUE = [&](){
+         int mat = pos.non_pawn_material();
+         return NNUE::evaluate(pos) * (1024 + mat / 32) / 1024 + Tempo;
+      };
 
       // If there is PSQ imbalance use classical eval, with small probability if it is small
       Value psq = Value(abs(eg_value(pos.psq_score())));
@@ -1037,7 +1040,7 @@ Value Eval::evaluate(const Position& pos) {
       // small probability if the classical eval is less than the threshold.
       if (   largePsq
           && (abs(v) * 16 < NNUEThreshold2 * r50
-          || (   pos.opposite_bishops() 
+          || (   pos.opposite_bishops()
               && abs(v) * 16 < (NNUEThreshold1 + pos.non_pawn_material() / 64) * r50
               && !(pos.this_thread()->nodes & 0xB))))
           v = adjusted_NNUE();