Follow the usual approach to delay computation
as far as possible, in case an earlier killer
cut-offs we avoid to do useless work.
This also greatly simplifies the code.
No functional change.
Verified with perft there is no speed regression,
and code is simpler. It is also conceptually correct
becuase an extended move is just a move that happens
to have also a score.
No functional change.
This is an old patch from Jean-Francois Romang to send
UCI hashfull info to the GUI:
https://github.com/mcostalba/Stockfish/pull/60/files
It was wrongly judged as a slowdown, but it takes much
less than 1 ms to run, indeed on my core i5 2.6Ghz it
takes about 2 microsecs to run!
Regression test is good:
STC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 7352 W: 1548 L: 1401 D: 4403
LTC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 61432 W: 10307 L: 10251 D: 40874
I have set the name of the author to the original
one.
No functional change.
This patch has two positive effects:
- Retire a hackish formula and leave
just a natural, simple and plain one.
- Reduce strenght at very low level, but
don't impact medium/high levels.
Actually even at level 0, SF is still too
strong for many beginners (this was reported
many times for instance on Droidfish user
comments on Google Play).
Test on fishtest shows that ELO drop is around
170 ELO at level 0 (good!), 130 ELO at level 1
and smoothly reduces (as expected) until level
10 where the drop is just of 8 ELO.
No functional change.
- Fix a skill level problem: Don't allow move pruning at root node
- Revert "Fix profile build for gcc on Mac OSX". Results for a faster binary in x86-64.
- Fix a MSVC warning
Bench: 8918745
Seems to be a performance regression for standard build.
For SF6 people compiling on Mac OSX using profile-build option
just need to make necessary adjustments manually...
No functional change
Resolves#223
Instead of swapping sub-optimal move in Skill
d'tor, make it explicitly at the end of the search.
Also streamline and clarify relation with multiPV
and pass it directly instead of relying on the hacky
'candidates' member.
No functional change.
Warning is C4512 (assignment operator could not be generated)
Now, apart the foreign syzygy code, everything compiles
without warnings at warning level 4.
Backported from C++11 branch.
No functional change.
- Fix a compilation issue related to BMI2 PEXT instruction
- Retrieve a ponder move from TT if PV is only one move long
Bench: 8080602
No functional change
This intrinsic to call BMI2 PEXT instruction is
defined in immintrin.h. This header should be
included only when USE_PEXT is defined, otherwise
we define _pext_u64 as 0 forcing a nop.
But under some mingw platforms, even if we don't
include the header, immintrin.h gets included
anyhow through an include chain that starts with
STL <algorithm> header. So we end up both defining
_pext_u64 function and at the same time defining
_pext_u64 as 0 leading to a compile error.
The correct solution is of not using _pext_u64 directly.
This patch fixes a compile error with some mingw64
package when compiling with x86-64.
No functional change.
Resolves#222
In case we stop the search during a fail-high
it is possible we return to GUI without a ponder
move. This patch try harder to find a ponder move
retrieving it from TT. This is important in games
played with 'ponder on'.
bench: 8080602
Resolves#221
When not using Makefile, e.g. with MSVC, if hardware
supports BMI2 instructions, then USE_PEXT should be
added in project configuration to enable pext support.
No functional change.
This intrinsic to call BMI2 PEXT instruction is
defined in immintrin.h. This header should be
included only when USE_PEXT is defined, otherwise
we define _pext_u64 as 0 forcing a nop.
But under some mingw platforms, even if we don't
include the header, immintrin.h gets included
anyhow through an include chain that starts with
STL <algorithm> header. So we end up both defining
_pext_u64 function and at the same time defining
_pext_u64 as 0 leading to a compile error.
The correct solution is of not using _pext_u64 directly.
This patch fixes a compile error with some mingw64
package when compiling with x86-64.
No functional change.
Warning is C4512 (assignment operator could not be generated)
Now, apart the foreign syzygy code, everything compiles
without warnings at warning level 4.
No functional change.
Coverity scan warns about uninitialized 'sf' argument when
calling probe(). Actually it is a false positive because
argument is passed by reference and assigned inside
probe(). Nevertheless it is a hint that fucntion signature
is a bit tricky, so rewrite it in a more conventional way,
assigning 'sf' from probe() return value.
No functional change.
Import C++11 branch from:
https://github.com/mcostalba/Stockfish/tree/c++11
The version imported is teh last one as of today:
6670e93e50
Branch is fully equivalent with master but syzygy
tablebases that are missing (but will be added with
next commit).
bench: 8080602
On platforms where size_t is 32 bit, we
can have an overflow in this expression:
(mbSize * 1024 * 1024)
Fix it setting max hash size of 2GB on platforms
where size_t is 32 bit.
A small rename while there: now struct Cluster
is definied inside class TranspositionTable so
we should drop the redundant TT prefix.
No functional change.
