thomas-schweich/stockfish-nodes1

Stockfish Self-Play (nodes=1) 1M games of Stockfish 17 self-play at 1 node per move. Pre-tokenized in the PAWN training format. At nodes=1, Stockfish evaluates each position with a single NNUE forward pass (no tree search). Despite the lack of search, the NNUE evaluation head produces surprisingly strong play — far from random. Games exhibit coherent openings, reasonable piece development, and tactical awareness, though blunders are more frequent than at higher node counts. This… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/thomas-schweich/stockfish-nodes1.