From: Topologist <thelisting@web.de>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 09:50:08 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Play more positional in endgames
X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=commitdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;h=471d93063a8fc1803a4a34397fe39e2344a05d76;p=stockfish

Play more positional in endgames

This patch chooses the delta value (which skews the nnue evaluation between positional and materialistic)
depending on the material: If the material is low, delta will be higher and the evaluation is shifted
to the positional value. If the material is high, the evaluation will be shifted to the psqt value.
I don't think slightly negative values of delta should be a concern.

Passed STC:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/62418513b3b383e86185766f
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.50>
Total: 28808 W: 7832 L: 7564 D: 13412
Ptnml(0-2): 147, 3186, 7505, 3384, 182

Passed LTC:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/62419137b3b383e861857842
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,3.00>
Total: 58632 W: 15776 L: 15450 D: 27406
Ptnml(0-2): 42, 5889, 17149, 6173, 63

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3971

Bench: 7588855
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diff --git a/src/nnue/evaluate_nnue.cpp b/src/nnue/evaluate_nnue.cpp
index 9254e36f..9ee599f4 100644
--- a/src/nnue/evaluate_nnue.cpp
+++ b/src/nnue/evaluate_nnue.cpp
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ namespace Stockfish::Eval::NNUE {
     // overaligning stack variables with alignas() doesn't work correctly.
 
     constexpr uint64_t alignment = CacheLineSize;
-    int delta = 7;
+    int delta = 10 - pos.non_pawn_material() / 1515;
 
 #if defined(ALIGNAS_ON_STACK_VARIABLES_BROKEN)
     TransformedFeatureType transformedFeaturesUnaligned[