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=Minic 3=
Minic '''3.00''', announced on November 03, 2020, detached the [[Stockfish NNUE]] dependency, and came with an own [[NNUE]] implementation adopted from the [[Seer]] engine by [[Connor McMonigle]], which allows to easily change the net architecture and to apply engine-independent [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyTorch PyTorch] training code <ref> [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75665 Minic version 3] by [[Vivien Clauzon]], [[CCC]], November 03, 2020</ref>. Minic '''3.02''' released on December 19, 2020, supports the new '''Seer ''' like NNUE '''Narcotized Nightshift''', which seems to be nearly 90 Elo better than the former '''Nefarious Nucleus''' <ref>[https://github.com/tryingsomestuff/NNUE-Nets#for-seer-like-nnue GitHub - tryingsomestuff/NNUE-Nets for Seer like NNUE]</ref>.
=See also=
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75665 Minic version 3] by [[Vivien Clauzon]], [[CCC]], November 03, 2020
: [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75665&start=9 Re: Minic version 3] by [[Connor McMonigle]], [[CCC]], November 03, 2020 <ref>[[Gao Huang]], [[Zhuang Liu]], [[Laurens van der Maaten]], [[Kilian Q. Weinberger]] ('''2016'''). ''Densely Connected Convolutional Networks''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06993 arXiv:1608.06993]</ref>
: [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75665&start=189 Re: Minic version 3] (Minic 3.08) by [[Vivien Clauzon]], [[CCC]], June 04, 2021
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=76536 Effect of adjudication and TC on testing process] by [[Vivien Clauzon]], [[CCC]], February 09, 2021 » [[Engine Testing]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=76556 HCE and NNUE and vectorisation] by [[Vivien Clauzon]], [[CCC]], February 11, 2021 » [[Evaluation]], [[NNUE]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=77503&start=55 Re: will Tcec allow Stockfish with a Leela net to play?] by [[Connor McMonigle]], [[CCC]], June 17, 2021 » [[NNUE]]
: [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=77503&start=68 Re: will Tcec allow Stockfish with a Leela net to play?] by [[Vivien Clauzon]], [[CCC]], June 18, 2021
=External Links=
* [https://github.com/tryingsomestuff/Minic GitHub - tryingsomestuff/Minic: A simple chess engine to learn and play with]
* [https://github.com/tryingsomestuff/NNUE-Nets GitHub - tryingsomestuff/NNUE-Nets]
* [http://ccrl.chessdom.com/ccrl/4040/cgi/compare_engines.cgi?family=Minic&print=Rating+list&print=Results+table&print=LOS+table&print=Ponder+hit+table&print=Eval+difference+table&print=Comopp+gamenum+table&print=Overlap+table&print=Score+with+common+opponents Minic] in [[CCRL|CCRL 40/40]].
