diff --git a/src/search.cpp b/src/search.cpp
index 082be4f2..36e73a09 100644
--- a/src/search.cpp
+++ b/src/search.cpp
@@ -594,7 +594,10 @@ namespace {
     // starts with statScore = 0. Later grandchildren start with the last calculated
     // statScore of the previous grandchild. This influences the reduction rules in
     // LMR which are based on the statScore of parent position.
-    (ss+2)->statScore = 0;
+	if (rootNode)
+		(ss + 4)->statScore = 0;
+	else
+		(ss + 2)->statScore = 0;
 
     // Step 4. Transposition table lookup. We don't want the score of a partial
     // search to overwrite a previous full search TT value, so we use a different