Stockfish 19(stockfishchess.org)
275 points by atiedebee 3 days ago | 162 comments
tl;dr: Stockfish 19 delivers up to 44 Elo gain over version 18, winning 3x as many game pairs as it loses. Key changes include a new SFNNv16 NNUE architecture (with pawn-pair features and retirement of the secondary small net), Quantization-Aware Training, and universal binaries that auto-detect CPU features. It also adds native support for RISC-V, LoongArch, WebAssembly, and 1GB Linux huge pages, plus stricter FEN/UCI validation that terminates the process on invalid input.
HN Discussion:
  • Reports a potential bug/regression in Stockfish's evaluation of a famous chess position
  • Humorous acknowledgment that the strength gains are real but irrelevant to weak human players
  • Appreciates the reduced binary size from the new architecture but wants more size efficiency
  • ~Suggests the release notes should include notable example games showing evaluation differences
  • Speculates that older Stockfish versions are already effectively unbeatable, questioning practical value of updates