Replace a 64 bit 'and' by two 32 bits ones and
use unsigned instead of int.
This simple patch increases perft speed of 6% on
my Intel Core 2 Duo !
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
This allows to retire ClearMaskBB[] and use just
one SquareBB[] array to set and clear a bit.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
All the piece dependant data is passed now as
function arguments so that the code is exactly
the same for bishop and rook.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
It is more correct and specific. Another naming
improvement while reading Critter sources.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Add comments and rename stuff to better clarify what the
magic bitboard initialization code does.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Functional change due to the fact that now pick_best() is
stable, but should be no change in strenght.
Example code and ideas by Rein Halbersma.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Good result for 32 bit case where computation is very fast,
still not satisfying on 64 bit case where the magics seem
a bit harder to get.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Due to a -2% speed penalty. This patch takes the best
of the previous series without the regression due to
introduction of Magic struct.
Speedup against previous revision is of almost 3% !!!!
No functional change both in 32 and 64 bits.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
We can calculate them counting the masks bits.
Also small tweak to sliding_attacks()
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
With off-by-one bug in InFrontBB[] loop fixed.
Also use int instead of File to workaround a bug
in mingw 4.4.0 in first loop that cycles forever.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Function ray_bb() was used just in one endgame where can
be used squares_in_front_of() instead.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Square and piece colors are two different things,
so use different types to avoid misunderstandings.
Suggested by Tord.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Use log() instead because we are not in speed
critical paths.
Also a bit of renaming and code shuffle while there.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
This is a more standard naming (see chessprogramming wiki)
and is more stick to what table is and not what is used for.
Code in pawns.cpp is a bit more readable now, at least for me ;-)
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
It will be used to lookup squares in front of
a given square. Same concept of PassedPawnMask[]
and OutpostMask[].
Also small tweaks in bitboard.h
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
This is more similar to how get_material_info() and
get_pawn_info() work and also removes some clutter from
evaluate_king().
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
This avoid to duplicate storage allocation for every file
where they are used.
Note that simple numeric constant can remain in header because
are automatically folded by the compiler.
Patch suggested by Tord.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Was erroneusly changed with the 32bit in recent
patch "Retire USE_COMPACT_ROOK_ATTACKS...".
Also another clean up of define magics. Move compiler
specific definitions in types.h and remove redundant cruft.
Now this macro ugly mess seems more reasonable.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
On 64 bit systems we can use bsfq instruction to count
set bits in a bitboard.
This is a patch for GCC and Intel compilers to take advantage
of that and get a 2% speed up.
Original patch from Heinz van Saanen, adapted to current tree
by me.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
