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=[[Stockfish NNUE]]=
As reported by [[Henk Drost]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74059 Stockfish NN release (NNUE)] by [[Henk Drost]], [[CCC]], May 31, 2020</ref>,
[[Hisayori Noda|Nodchip]] incorporated NNUE into the chess playing [[Stockfish ]] 10 as a proof of concept.
[[Stockfish NNUE]] was born, and in summer 2020 the computer chess community bursts out enthusiastically due to its rapidly raising [[Playing Strength|playing strength]] with different networks trained using a mixture of [[Supervised Learning|supervised]] and [[Reinforcement Learning|reinforcement learning]] methods -
despite the approximately halved search speed, becoming stronger than its original <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74484 Can the sardine! NNUE clobbers SF] by [[Henk Drost]], [[CCC]], July 16, 2020</ref>, finally responsible for the huge [[Playing Strength|strength]] improvement of '''Stockfish 12'''.
=NNUE Engines=
''see [[:Category:NNUE]]''
Being tempted by the success of [[Stockfish NNUE]] and attracted by how easy the method and small the code is, many engine developers have started testing and applying [[NNUE]]. For quick trials and evaluating before going into serious development, some of them borrowed and/or rewrote NNUE code and use networks from Stockfish NNUE. Most of them reported positive results, such as [[David Carteau]] with [[Orion]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74828 Orion 0.7 : NNUE experiment] by [[David Carteau]], [[CCC]], August 19, 2020</ref>, [[Ehsan Rashid]] with [[DON]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=72613&start=320#p856640 Re: New engine releases 2020...Don NNUE 2020?] by supersharp77, [[CCC]], August 19, 2020</ref>, various [[Stockfish#Derivatives|Stockfish derivatives]] by [[Michael Byrne]] <ref>[http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74825 ... the last shall be first ...] by [[Michael Byrne|MikeB]], [[CCC]], 19 Aug 2020</ref>, and [[Volodymyr Shcherbyna]] with [[Igel]] <ref>[http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=67890&start=10#p856742 Introducing Igel chess engine] by [[Volodymyr Shcherbyna]], [[CCC]], 20 Aug 2020</ref> using the ''Night Nurse'' NNUE net by [[Dietrich Kappe]] <ref>[http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74837 Night Nurse 0.2] by [[Dietrich Kappe]], [[CCC]], August 19, 2020</ref>. In October 2020, [[Daniel Shawul]] added NNUE support à la [[CFish]] into his [[Scorpio#Bitbases|egbbdll]] probing library of [[Scorpio]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=75400&start=22 Re: Hacking around CFish NNUE] by [[Daniel Shawul]], [[CCC]], October 15, 2020</ref> <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=75415&start=3 Re: How to scale stockfish NNUE score?] by [[Daniel Shawul]], [[CCC]], October 17, 2020</ref>, soon followed making it even easier to use NNUE. The promising engines [[Halogen]] 7 and 8 by the new promising engine [[Kieren Pearson]], and [[Seer]] by [[Connor McMonigle]] came with a their own, distinct NNUE implementation. On implementations, and on November 10, 2020, the commercial [[Dragon by Komodo Chess]] aka [[Komodo]] NNUE appeared <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75748 Dragon by Komodo Chess] by [[Larry Kaufman]], [[CCC]], November 10, 2020</ref>, trying to close the gap to Stockfish NNUE.
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