This method belongs to Thread, not to ThreadsManager.
Reshuffle stuff in thread.cpp while there.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Release split point lock before to wake up
master thread. This seems to increase speed
in case "sleeping threads" are used:
After 7792 games with 4 threads at very fast TC (2"+0.05)
Mod vs Orig 1722 - 1627 - 4443 ELO +4 (+- 5.1)
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
When allocating a slave we set both is_searching
and splitPoint under lock protection.
Unfortunatly the order in which the variables are
set is not defined. This article was very clarifying:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2007/11/30/volatile-almost-useless-for-multi-threaded-programming/
So when in idle loop we test for is_searching and then
access splitPoint, it could happen that splitPoint is still
not updated leading to a possible crash.
Fix the race lock protecting splitPoint access.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
With current code we could raise bestValue above beta,
not what is intended for.
Spotted by Richard Vida.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Fix an issue where the log file stores an incorrect +0.00
eval after a search has been stopped.
Bug reported by Ajedrecista.
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>
It is not clear the advantage and we don't want
to risk of introducing regressions on this
very critical parameter. So revert to old limit.
After 16003 games
Mod vs Orig 2496 - 2421 - 11086 ELO +1 (+-3)
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Apart from some renaming the biggest change
is the retire of split_point_finished()
replaced by slavesMask flags. As a side
effect we now take also split point lock
when allocation available threads.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
pass references (Windows style) instead of
pointers (Posix style) as function arguments.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
In case of a PvNode could happen that alpha == beta - 1,
for instance in case the same previous node was visited
with same beta during a non-pv search, the node failed low
and stored beta-1 in TT. Then the node is searched again
in PV mode, TT value beta-1 is retrieved and updates alpha
that now happens to be beta-1.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
And increase LMR limit. Tests show no change ELO wise,
but we prefer to take the risk to commit anyhow becuase
is a 'prune reducing' patch.
After 10749 games
Mod vs Orig: 1670 - 1676 - 7403 ELO 0 (+-3.7)
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Fix an incorrect warning: 'bm may be used uninitialized'
with the old but still commonly used gcc 4.4
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
And directly pass RootMoves instead of SearchMoves
to main thread. A class declaration is better suited
in a header and slims a bit the fatty search.cpp
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
We just need to verify if a legal move is among the
SearchMoves, so we don't need a vector for this.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
It could lead to terrible mistakes otherwise, as
it happened during a game on playchess when on
this position (after white's f4):
2q4r/4b1k1/p3rpp1/3np2p/PpNpNP1P/1P1P2PQ/2P1R3/4R1K1 b - - 0 1
SF moves immediately e5xf4 instead of the correct f5.
In general during engine matches it is impossible the
opponent leaves a piece hanging or anyhow starts a
clear losing sequence. So avoid to fall in subtle traps.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Further increase safety against time losses. After this
change (tested on LittleBlitzer and cutechess) I had no
more time losses at 2" and 1"+0.02 TC both on Windows
and Linux on more than 10000 games.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
We try hard not to lose on time even under extreme
time pressure. We achieve this through 3 different but
coordinated steps:
1) Increase max frequency of timer events
2) Quickly return after a stop signal
3) Take in account timer resolution
With these SF played under LittleBlitzer at 1"+0.02 and 3"+0
without losing on time even one game.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
The aim is to have shorter names without losing
readibility but, if possible, increasing it.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Retire open(), close() and name() from public visibility
and greately simplify the code. It is amazing how much
can be squeezed out of an already mature code !
No functional change
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Greatly improves the usage. User defined conversions
are a novelity for SF, another amazing C++ facility
at work !
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
The condition for a mate score was wrong:
abs(v) < VALUE_MATE - PLY_MAX * ONE_PLY
instead of
abs(v) < VALUE_MATE_IN_PLY_MAX
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
During the search we score a mate as "plies to mate
from the root" to compare in an homogeneous way the
values returned by different sub-trees. However we
store in TT a mate score as "plies to mate from the
current position" the let the TT value remain valid
across the game.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
It is simple but somewhat tricky code that deserves
a bit of documentation. A bit of renaming while there.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Add the check that alpha < beta - 1 if and only if PvNode is true.
The current code would not flag PvNode and alpha == beta - 1. In
other words, the || is not an exclusive OR!.
Also sync assert conditions of search() and qsearch()
Suggested by Rein Halbersma.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Make a better use of C++ operators overloading to
streamline the APIs.
Also sync polyglot.ini file while there.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Follow the suggested Qt style:
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qq/qq13-apis.html
It seems to me simpler and easier to read.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
I am not able to reproduce the speed regression anymore,
and also we were using cout even before speed regression
so probably the reason is not there.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
We don't use killers to order evasions, so it
seems natural do not consider an evasion cut-off
move as a possible killer. Test shows almost no
change, as it should be becuase this is a really
tiny change, but neverthless seems the correct
thing to do.
After 11893 games
Mod vs Orig 1773 - 1696 - 8424 ELO +2 (+-3.4)
Idea from Critter.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Take advantage of argument-dependent lookup (ADL) to
avoid specifying std:: qualifier in some STL functions.
When a function argument refers to a namespace (in this
case std) then the compiler will search the unqualified
function in that namespace too.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Seems sensibly faster: On a
./stockfish bench > /dev/null
We have +2% on mingw and even +5% on MSVC !
Also removed the nice but complex enum set960 machinery,
use directly the underlying move_to_uci() function.
Speed regression reported by Heinz van Saanen.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Do not return the book move if is not among the
RootMoves,in particular if we have been asked to
search on a move subset with "searchmoves" then
return book move only if it is among this subset.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Introduce pv_info_to_log() and pv_info_to_uci() and
greatly cleanup this stuff.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Actually after last patch it happens that delta
starts always with the fixed value of 16.
So further remove useless code.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
It seems that we just need to look at previous score to
compute aspiration window size.
After 5350 games:
Mod vs Orig 800 - 803 - 3647 ELO +0 (+- 5.2)
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Diretcly use the underlying std::vector<Move> and the
STL algorithms. Also a bit of cleanup while there.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Comments should be informative but not pedantic / obvious.
The only exception is the function description where we
indulge a bit on the "chatty" side, but has always been like
this since Glaurung times, so we continue with this tradition.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
