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Document Elo impact of various parts of search
authorJoost VandeVondele <Joost.VandeVondele@gmail.com>
Sun, 1 Apr 2018 01:13:29 +0000 (03:13 +0200)
committerStéphane Nicolet <cassio@free.fr>
Sun, 1 Apr 2018 01:21:45 +0000 (03:21 +0200)
In order to understand better the impact of various techniques used in search,
Elo estimates have been run at STC for 60000 games (statistical error ~1.8 Elo),
disabling each feature in turn. This should help future improvements and
simplifications to pick suitable targets.

The list of tests is:
step  7 : http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5abcbb4b0ebc5902926cf1ca
step  8 : http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5abcbb680ebc5902926cf1cc
step  9 : http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5abcbb850ebc5902926cf1ce
step 10 : http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5abcbbeb0ebc5902926cf1d2
step 11 : http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5abcbbbf0ebc5902926cf1d0
step 13 : http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5abd03680ebc5902926cf20b
step 13a: http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5abd29660ebc5902926cf22a
step 13b: http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5abd29820ebc5902926cf22c
step 14 : http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5abd03860ebc5902926cf20f
step 14a: http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5abd2b6c0ebc5902926cf230
step 14b: http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5abd2b8d0ebc5902926cf232
step 14c: http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5abd2bad0ebc5902926cf234
step 14d: http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5abd2bcf0ebc5902926cf236
step 14e: http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5abd2bf10ebc5902926cf238

This patch documents this in the code.

Note that it will be a waste to recompute these estimates often, even a couple
of [0,5] patches are unlikely to change them by more than the error bars. The
interest of the Elo annotations in the code is not in the details, but in high-
lighting trends such as razoring (2 Elo) and singular extensions (60 Elo). These
estimates should be recomputed at most once a year.

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/1522

No functional change.


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