Use capture history to better judge which sacrifices to explore

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This idea has been bouncing around a while. @Vizvezdenec tried it a
couple years ago in Stockfish without results, but its recent arrival in
Ethereal inspired him and thence me to try it afresh in Stockfish.

(Also factor out the now-common code with futpruning for captures.)

STC:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/662355bc3fe04ce4cefc18ac
LLR: 2.92 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00>
Total: 45760 W: 11970 L: 11640 D: 22150
Ptnml(0-2): 124, 5371, 11625, 5571, 189

LTC:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/662dda396115ff6764c817c9
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,2.50>
Total: 243828 W: 62042 L: 61287 D: 120499
Ptnml(0-2): 211, 27202, 66329, 27965, 207

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5200

Bench: 1480008

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