Wire NNUE eval into search, build the training pipeline, and add a fast

move/eval-agreement benchmark against Stockfish (tests/lop)

Implements the architecture decisions in src/docs/NNUE.md: HalfKAv2_hm
feature set, int16/int8 quantization, per-ply accumulator backup for
king moves, and a lazy-eval-ready integration into search.c/eval.c.
Adds the full annotate_pgns/ training pipeline (extraction, K-fit/
labeling, quiet filtering, tensor building, training, export) plus an
end-to-end orchestrator (run_nnue_pipeline.py) and validation tooling
(sanity_check_net.py, compare_vs_stockfish_net.py). Adds tests/lop:
a 10k-position list-of-positions benchmark comparing engine eval rank
and move choice against pre-computed Stockfish/lc0 references, much
cheaper than a full self-play match for day-to-day progress checks.

First sd10-matched self-play result against classic HCE: LLR +2.28
(H1=+2.94), -72=119+169 over 360 games, confirming the net is
"smarter per node" at matched depth. A real-time (--st 4) match is
currently weaker (candidate loses ~3 plies of depth to a ~3.3-3.7x
nps gap against an unrecalibrated search), consistent with
NNUE.md's adoption-criterion section -- pruning/reduction constants
still need retuning for the new eval's score scale before a fair
real-time comparison is possible.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>

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diff --git a/annotate_pgns/overfit_sanity_check.py b/annotate_pgns/overfit_sanity_check.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""First-principles pipeline sanity check, 2026-10-17: can the net
+even OVERFIT a small, fixed, noiseless target -- the engine's own
+classic Eval() score on a few thousand real positions -- regressed
+directly (plain MSE on raw pawn-ish units, no WDL sigmoid, no K, no
+lambda, no quiet filter, no quantization)?
+
+Motivation: five independent head-to-head matches today (two nets,
+two time controls, with and without the lazy probe) all showed NNUE
+losing decisively to classic HCE, including at matched search depth
+where ECM tactical-suite results had suggested NNUE should do well.
+Before concluding anything about net/data quality, rule out a
+structural pipeline bug the hard way: if this architecture, this
+feature-indexing, and this training loop cannot drive error to
+~zero on a target it should be trivially able to memorize (a few
+thousand noiseless (position, scalar) pairs, same units/sign
+convention as everything else in this pipeline), something is
+broken in feature indexing, accumulator math, or the training loop
+itself -- not a "real chess judgment is hard" problem.
+
+If this DOES overfit cleanly, the pipeline is vindicated at the
+mechanical level, and today's match losses are a real net-quality
+question, not a bug hunt.
+
+Usage:
+    python3 overfit_sanity_check.py --tensor-dir /tmp/overfit_tensors \
+        --epochs 400
+"""
+import argparse
+import time
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+import torch
+
+from nnue_model import NnueNet
+
+
+def main():
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__,
+                                  formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
+    ap.add_argument("--tensor-dir", required=True)
+    ap.add_argument("--epochs", type=int, default=400)
+    ap.add_argument("--lr", type=float, default=1e-3)
+    ap.add_argument("--seed", type=int, default=0)
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    torch.manual_seed(args.seed)
+    d = Path(args.tensor_dir)
+    # nn.EmbeddingBag's `offsets` wants one START index per bag (length
+    # N) -- the CSR files store N+1 entries (with a trailing end
+    # sentinel, per build_training_tensors.py), so the last entry
+    # must be dropped here (nnue_train.py's _gather_batch does the
+    # equivalent by only ever building N-length offset arrays).
+    white_idx = torch.from_numpy(np.load(d / "white_idx.npy").astype(np.int64))
+    white_off = torch.from_numpy(np.load(d / "white_off.npy")[:-1])
+    black_idx = torch.from_numpy(np.load(d / "black_idx.npy").astype(np.int64))
+    black_off = torch.from_numpy(np.load(d / "black_off.npy")[:-1])
+    stm = torch.from_numpy(np.load(d / "stm.npy").astype(np.int64))
+    target = torch.from_numpy(np.load(d / "target_raw.npy"))
+    n = len(target)
+    print(f"Loaded {n} (position, classic_eval) pairs -- target range "
+          f"[{target.min():.2f}, {target.max():.2f}] pawns")
+
+    model = NnueNet()
+    optimizer = torch.optim.Adam(model.parameters(), lr=args.lr)
+
+    t0 = time.time()
+    for epoch in range(args.epochs):
+        optimizer.zero_grad()
+        pred = model.forward(white_idx, white_off, black_idx, black_off, stm)
+        loss = torch.nn.functional.mse_loss(pred, target)
+        loss.backward()
+        optimizer.step()
+        if epoch % 20 == 0 or epoch == args.epochs - 1:
+            rmse_cp = (loss.item() ** 0.5) * 100
+            print(f"  epoch {epoch:4d}  train MSE (pawns^2) = {loss.item():.5f}  "
+                  f"RMSE = {rmse_cp:.1f}cp  ({time.time() - t0:.0f}s)")
+
+    with torch.no_grad():
+        pred = model.forward(white_idx, white_off, black_idx, black_off, stm)
+    final_mse = torch.nn.functional.mse_loss(pred, target).item()
+    final_rmse_cp = (final_mse ** 0.5) * 100
+    max_err_cp = (pred - target).abs().max().item() * 100
+    print(f"\nFinal: train MSE = {final_mse:.5f} pawns^2, "
+          f"RMSE = {final_rmse_cp:.1f}cp, max |error| = {max_err_cp:.1f}cp")
+    print("Verdict: ", end="")
+    if final_rmse_cp < 10:
+        print("CLEAN OVERFIT -- pipeline mechanically sound. "
+              "Today's match losses are a net-quality/data question, not a bug.")
+    elif final_rmse_cp < 50:
+        print("PARTIAL overfit -- some signal getting through, but not "
+              "cleanly memorizing a noiseless target. Worth investigating "
+              "further (LR, architecture capacity, or a real bug) before "
+              "trusting any training result built on this pipeline.")
+    else:
+        print("FAILED to overfit even a tiny noiseless target -- strong "
+              "evidence of a structural bug (feature indexing, accumulator "
+              "math, or training loop), not a net-quality/data problem. "
+              "Do not trust any prior training result until this is found.")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()