Remove the check for castling moves because it is
already implicit in the check for king moves and castling
is so rare that doing the check is just a slow down.
Thanks to Marek Kwiatkowski.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
The structure of move is changed so should also the two
functions. It happens that it works by accident !
Bug spotted by Marek Kwiatkowski
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
We already test this condition in see_sign() and
so it is almost always a redundant verification.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Bug is subtle because appears only under MSVC 32 bits in
optimized version, hence was missed before.
Bug is due to the fact that evaluation order of terms of a
sum is undefined by the standard, so in get_int() we have:
return 256 * get_int<n-1>() + bookFile.get();
And if get() is evaluated before get_int() we have a corrupted
key.
The patch rewrites the code in a more natural and predictable way.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
If blockSq is already on rank 8, blockSq + pawn_push(Us) is on rank 9,
outside of board. It does not make sense to measure king distance to
a field outside the board.
Bug spotted by Fruity:
http://open-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1156&start=10
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Almost useless for the user and now is in sync with
the material value that is already weighted.
A small speedup of 0,4% because we avoid an apply_weight()
call in a fast path.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Also simplify tracing because evaluate_unstoppable_pawns()
return always zero if both colors have non pawn material.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Extensive test series on tweaking history limit and bonus
formula. At the end this was the best.
After 11959 games:
Mod vs Orig 2087 - 1934 - 7938 ELO +4 (+- 3.7) LOS 92%
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Node count is different just becuase now we don't log on
"bench.txt" file anymore so that we avoid some calls to
pretty_pv() that calls Position::do_move().
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
This prevent crashing on mobile devices with limited RAM,
currently with MAX_THREADS = 32 we would need 44MB that
could be too much for a poor cellphone.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
This change allows to remove some quite a bit of code
and seems the natural thing to do.
Introduced file thread.cpp to move away from search.cpp a lot
of threads related stuff.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
