In case ply is very high, function will round
to zero (although mathematically it is always
bigger than zero). On my system this happens at
movenumber 6661.
Although 6661 moves in a game is, of course,
probably impossible, for safety and to be locally
consistent makes sense to ensure returned value
is positive.
Non functional change.
Function move_importance() is already always
positive, so we don't need to add a constant
term to ensure it.
Becuase move_importance() is used to calculate
ratios of a linear combination (as explained in
previous patch), result is not affected. I have
also verified it directly.
No functional change.
Drop a useless parameter. This works because ratio1 and ratio2
are ratios of linear combinations of thisMoveImportance and
otherMovesImportance and so the yscale cancels out.
Therefore the values of ratio1 and ratio2 are independent
of yscale and yscale can be retired.
The same applies to yshift, but here we want to ensure
move_importance() > 0, so directly hard-code this safety
guard in function definition.
Actually there are some small differences due to rounding errors
and usually are at most few millisecond, that's means below 1% of
returned time, apart from very short intervals in which a difference
of just 1 msec can raise to 2-3% of total available time.
No functional change.
The flag raises also in case of a pawn duo, i.e.
when we have two adjacent pawns on the same rank,
and not only in case of a chain, i.e. when the two
pawns are on a diagonal line.
See this for a reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connected_pawns
Renaming suggested by Ralph.
No functional change.
Use a skew-logistic function to replace the
MoveImportance[] array.
Verified it does not regress at fixed number
of games both at short TC:
LLR: -2.91 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 39457 W: 7539 L: 7538 D: 24380
And long TC:
ELO: -0.49 +-1.9 (95%) LOS: 31.0%
Total: 39358 W: 6135 L: 6190 D: 27033
bench: 7335588
Passed short TC
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 18331 W: 3608 L: 3453 D: 11270
And scored above 50% on a very long test in long TC
LLR: -2.97 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,6.00]
Total: 51533 W: 8181 L: 8047 D: 35305
bench: 7335588
In endgame it's better to have pawns on both wings.
So give a bonus according to file distance between left
and right outermost pawns.
Passed both short TC
LLR: 2.97 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 39073 W: 7749 L: 7536 D: 23788
And long TC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,6.00]
Total: 6149 W: 1040 L: 910 D: 4199
bench: 7665034
Reduce eval discontinuity becuase now we kick in
king safety evaluation in many more cases.
Passed both short TC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 8708 W: 1742 L: 1613 D: 5353
And long TC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,6.00]
Total: 6743 W: 1122 L: 990 D: 4631
bench: 6835416
Tighter lower bound for pawn attacks so to
activate king safety in some cases like here:
6k1/2B3p1/2Pp1p2/2nPp3/2Q1P2K/P2n1qP1/R6P/1R6 w
Original patch by Chris, further simplified by
Jörg Oster.
Passed both short TC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 30171 W: 5887 L: 5700 D: 18584
And long TC
LLR: 2.97 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,6.00]
Total: 20706 W: 3402 L: 3204 D: 14100
bench: 7607562
Add a bonus according if the attacking
pieces are minor or major.
Passed both short TC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 13142 W: 2625 L: 2483 D: 8034
And long TC
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,6.00]
Total: 18059 W: 3031 L: 2844 D: 12184
bench: 7425809
A great simplification that shows no regression
and it seems even a bit scalable.
Tested with fixed number of games:
Short TC
ELO: 0.60 +-2.1 (95%) LOS: 71.1%
Total: 39554 W: 7477 L: 7409 D: 24668
Long TC
ELO: 2.97 +-2.0 (95%) LOS: 99.8%
Total: 36424 W: 5894 L: 5583 D: 24947
bench: 8184352
Change updating rule after a TT hit to match
the same one at the end of the search.
Small change in functionality, but we want to
have uniform rules in the code.
bench: 7767864
We already update killers so it is natural to extend to
history and counter move too.
Passed both short TC
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 52690 W: 9955 L: 9712 D: 33023
And long TC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,6.00]
Total: 5555 W: 935 L: 808 D: 3812
bench: 7876473
After a fail high in LMR, if reduction is very high do
a research at lower depth before teh full depth one.
Chances are that the re-search will fail low and the
full depth one is skipped.
Passed both short TC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 11363 W: 2204 L: 2069 D: 7090
And long TC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,6.00]
Total: 7292 W: 1195 L: 1061 D: 5036
bench: 7869223
Since all ENPASSANT moves are now considered dangerous, this
change of order should give a slight speedup.
Also simplify futilityValue formula.
No functional change.
We avoid to use an ad-hoc table at the cost of a
relative_rank() call in advanced_pawn_push().
On my 32 bit system it is even slightly faster (on 64bit
may be different). This is the speed in nps alternating
old and new bench runs:
new
368890
368825
369972
old
367798
367635
368026
No functional change.
Instead of a passed pawn now we just require the pawn to
be in the opponent camp to be considered a dangerous
move. Added some renaming to reflect the change.
Passed both short TC test
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 10358 W: 2033 L: 1900 D: 6425
And long TC
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,6.00]
Total: 21459 W: 3486 L: 3286 D: 14687
bench: 8322172
To align to same named Position function and
avoid using std::cout directly.
Also remove some stale <iostream> include while
there.
No functional change.
Add a Mac SSE4.2 target. Also change the Mac OS X minimum version to
10.6. Rationale: 97% of Macs run at least 10.6, version 10.9 is now
free, and using 10.6 as the minimum version gives a small 5% boost in
benchmark speed over versions using 10.0 as the minimum version.
Finally, enable Clang’s Link Time Optimization when compiling for the
Mac.
No functional change.
