https://blog.lukesalamone.com/tags/stockfish/ Recent content in Stockfish on Luke Salamone's Blog Hugo en-us Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:38:45 -0700 https://blog.lukesalamone.com/posts/stockfish-depth-accuracy/ Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:38:45 -0700 https://blog.lukesalamone.com/posts/stockfish-depth-accuracy/ <script type="text/javascript" async src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax/2.7.7/MathJax.js?config=TeX-MML-AM_CHTML"></script> <script type="text/x-mathjax-config"> MathJax.Hub.Config({ tex2jax: { inlineMath: [['$','$'], ['\\(','\\)']], displayMath: [['$$','$$'], ['\[','\]']], processEscapes: true, processEnvironments: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre'], TeX: { equationNumbers: { autoNumber: "AMS" }, extensions: ["AMSmath.js", "AMSsymbols.js"] } } }); </script> <script type="text/x-mathjax-config"> MathJax.Hub.Queue(function() { // Fix <code> tags after MathJax finishes running. This is a // hack to overcome a shortcoming of Markdown. Discussion at // https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/issues/199 var all = MathJax.Hub.getAllJax(), i; for(i = 0; i < all.length; i += 1) { all[i].SourceElement().parentNode.className += ' has-jax'; } }); </script> <p>When I built <a href="https://huggingface.co/datasets/lukesalamone/gigafish-3.8b-d10">the Gigafish dataset</a>, I deliberately chose to use positions evaluated at depth 10. These positions could be evaluated relatively quickly on my machine, but there was an accuracy tradeoff. At depth 10, Stockfish might not see or fully appreciate a tactic which becomes apparent at depth 15.</p>