Marco Costalba
7000e100bd
Enable per-square MVV/LVA
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Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-11-16 12:37:46 +01:00
Marco Costalba
2ed22e4fc8
MovePicker:find bad captures during scoring
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Instead of pospone until picking. No functional
change and probably no performance change but it is
needed for following patch.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-11-16 12:37:46 +01:00
Marco Costalba
940c53c366
MovePicker: introduce per square MVV/LVA ordering
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Just added the infrastructure, no functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-11-16 12:37:45 +01:00
Marco Costalba
1a158c0cf0
Revert movepick optimizations before to release
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More testing is needed and better do not risk
just before release.
Reverted:
Disable LSN filtering as defualt for release
Use MVV/LVA in score_evasions()
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-11-02 15:58:10 +01:00
Marco Costalba
3e275680d5
Use MVV/LVA in score_evasions()
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Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-11-02 15:00:28 +01:00
Marco Costalba
d087b0a34a
Delay SEE for scoring captures
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Do not calculate SEE on all the moves in MovePicker::score_captures()
but delay until pick_move_from_list() when only the best ones are
double checked against their see value.
If a beta cut-off occurs then we avoid calculating SEE on all
the moves, but just the picked ones.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-11-02 15:00:28 +01:00
Marco Costalba
8b57416ace
Revert "MovePicker::score_captures() order with SEE when pv"
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Does not seem to increase the strenght.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-11-01 12:46:54 +01:00
Marco Costalba
b2b86cfd27
MovePicker::score_captures() order with SEE when pv
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Order PV nodes by SEE instead of MVV/LVA.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-11-01 12:46:52 +01:00
Marco Costalba
74f1efee26
Manual merge
2008-10-26 21:44:58 +01:00
Marco Costalba
fcc49561a1
Prefer out of loop variables in MovePicker::score_captures()
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Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-26 21:30:21 +01:00
Marco Costalba
714069e248
Effectively use MVV/LVA in MovePicker::score_captures()
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Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-26 21:30:20 +01:00
Marco Costalba
88885399f4
Reintroduce piece/square tables to score non-captures
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Was removed after original movepick restore. But proved
to be useful.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-26 21:30:20 +01:00
Marco Costalba
a5c1b3e8f6
Position: fix a couple of Intel compiler warnings
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Plus usual trailing whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-26 13:23:27 +01:00
Marco Costalba
4397e6c03e
Better naming of pseudo-legality and legality testing
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No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-26 10:11:13 +01:00
Marco Costalba
4f14bd5032
Try to cleanup movepick
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Hopefully without regressions.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-26 10:11:13 +01:00
Marco Costalba
f8bc38a006
Restore original movepick modulo space inflation
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We have a regression somewhere here so restart from zero
and proceed one change at a time.
With this modification we have the same strenght of
"Introduce Stockfish" patch that is our strongest to date.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-26 10:11:13 +01:00
Marco Costalba
5dc2312121
Update copyright info
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Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-20 21:47:20 +02:00
Marco Costalba
d3600c39a7
Update copyright info
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Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-19 20:43:33 +01:00
Marco Costalba
94f1b31484
movegen: revert see ordering in score_captures()
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It works better with MVV ordering.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-18 21:35:33 +02:00
Marco Costalba
158911425b
Space inflate movegen.cpp
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Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-18 21:35:33 +02:00
Marco Costalba
cf8ee79b76
Movepick: add and use find_best_index() helper
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This removes a bunch of redundant code.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-18 21:35:33 +02:00
Marco Costalba
06d6468ce9
Test with see
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Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-18 21:35:33 +02:00
Marco Costalba
173ecc0acf
Use MVV to score captures when see >=0
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This fix a couple of dubious bugs in MVV/LVA
ordering.
Tests seems to confirm now is slightly better.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-18 21:35:32 +02:00
Marco Costalba
2943e1ca31
MovePicker: use const reference instead of pointers
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Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-18 21:35:32 +02:00
Marco Costalba
486ec580f9
Space inflate movepick.cpp
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Also added some FIXME to dubious points.
Still no functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-18 21:35:32 +02:00
Marco Costalba
a930aafce0
Better comment previous patch
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Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-18 21:35:32 +02:00
Marco Costalba
b3744eb4d0
Always add psqt scoring
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When there is also history, history is always
preferred.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-18 21:35:32 +02:00
Marco Costalba
a03ab94f44
Shortcut sorting when no move is in history
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An alternative algorithm to psqt scoring.
Still unclear what is the best, more tests needed.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-18 21:35:20 +02:00
Marco Costalba
644db060ae
Add psqt ordering when there is no history
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This seems to increase strenght (about 15 ELO),
still to test some variations on this theme that
could increase ELO even more.
Idea from Rebel (http://members.home.nl/matador/chess840.htm )
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-15 07:18:05 +01:00
Marco Costalba
58c7a5c477
Workaround a static data member bug in MSVC
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Without this patch MSVC crashes when compiled
in release mode. It survives and works as
expected in debug mode and with gcc and Intel
compilers.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-13 20:40:47 +02:00
Marco Costalba
bbf7a94d76
Better interface to get the current move type
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Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-06 05:44:23 +02:00
Marco Costalba
310e07f292
Teach MovePicker::get_next_move() to return move type
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This will be used in future patches.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-10-06 05:44:22 +02:00
Marco Costalba
52487c4f04
MovePicker: simplify move swapping
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We don't need a full swap here because once found
and returned the best move will not be used again.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
2008-09-18 12:26:10 +02:00
Marco Costalba
bb751d6c89
Initial import of Glaurung 2.1
2008-09-01 07:59:13 +02:00