This was thought to be a draw but the bishops generally win. However,
it takes up to 66 moves. The position in the diagram was thought to be
a draw for over one hundred years, but tablebases show that White wins
in 45 moves. All of the long wins go through this type of semi-fortress
position. It takes several moves to force Black out of the temporary
fortress in the corner; then precise play with the bishops prevents Black
from forming the temporary fortress in another corner (Nunn 1995:265ff).
Before computer analysis, Speelman listed this position as unresolved,
but "probably a draw" (Speelman 1981:109).
bench: 3453945
The case of two lone kings on the board is already considered
by the "No pawns" scaling factor rules in material.cpp as is
KBK and KNK.
Moreover we had a small leak in endgames map because for
KK endgame it happens white and black material keys are the
same (both equal to zero), so when adding the black endgame in
Endgames::add() we were overwriting the already exsisting
white one, leading to a memory leak found by Valgrind.
So remove the endgames althogheter and rely on scaling
to correctly set the endgames value to a draw.
No functional change.
The endgame king + minor vs king is erroneusly
detected as king + minor vs king + minor
Here the fix is to detect king + minor earlier,
in particular to add these trivial cases to
endgame evaluation functions.
Spotted by Reuven Peleg
bench: 4727133
Another trick, along the same lines of previous
patch. This time we first check positions with
white side to move that, becuase we start with
pawn on rank 7, are easily classified as wins,
then black ones.
Number of cycles reduced to 15 !
Becuase now it is faster we can remove a lot of
code to detect theoretical draws. We will calculate
them anyhow, although a bit slower, but the speed
up trick more than compensates it.
Verified that generated bitbases match original ones.
No functional change.
It is a draw if pawns are on G or B files, weaker pawn is
on rank 7 and bishop can't attack the pawn.
No functional change (because it is very rare and does not appear in bench)
Broken by commit a44c5cf4f7 of 3 /12 / 2011 that
was labeled "No functional change" because our 'bench'
test didn't triggered that particular endgame. Indeed
we need to run a specific bench on a set of endgames
position when touching endgame.cpp because normal bench
does not cover endgames properly.
Found by MSVC 2012 code analyzer.
It seems ADL lookup is broken with the STLPort library. Peter says:
The compiler is gcc 4.4.3, but I don't know how many patches they
have applied to it. I think gcc has had support for Koenig lookup
a long time. I think the problem is the type of the vector iterator.
For example, line 272 in search.cpp:
if (bookMove && count(RootMoves.begin(), RootMoves.end(), bookMove))
gives the error:
jni/stockfish/search.cpp:272: error: 'count' was not declared in this scope
Here RootMoves is:
std::vector<RootMove> RootMoves;
If std::vector<T>::iterator is implemented as T*, then Koenig lookup
would fail because RootMove* is not in namespace std.
I compile with the stlport implementation of STL, which in its vector
class has:
typedef value_type* iterator;
I'm not sure if this is allowed by the C++ standard. I did not find
anything that says the iterator type must belong to namespace std.
The consensus in this thread
http://compgroups.net/comp.lang.c++.moderated/argument-dependent-lookup/433395
is that the stlport iterator type is allowed.
Report and patch by Peter Osterlund.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Let first argument to be the 'color'. This allows to align
pos.pieces() signatures with piece_list(), piece_count() and
all the other functions where 'color' argument is passed as
first one.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
It is more correct given what the function does. In
particular single_bit() returns true also in case of
empty bitboards.
Of course also the usual renaming while there :-)
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Unfortunatly accessing thread local variable
is much slower than object data (see previous
patch log msg), so we have to revert to old code
to avoid speed regression.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
But use the newly introduced local storage
for this. A good code semplification and also
the correct way to go.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
The 2 overload functions map() accept a pointer to
EndgameBase<Value> or a pointer to EndgameBase<ScaleFactor>.
Because Endgame<E> is derived from one of them we can
directly use a pointer to this class to resolve the
overload as is needed in Endgames::add().
Also made class Endgames fully parametrized and no more
hardcoded to the types (Value or ScaleFactor) of endgames
stored.
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>
Now that HasPopCnt is a compile time constant we can
centralize and unify the BitCountType selection.
Also rename count_1s() in the more standard popcount()
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
This leads to a further and unexpected simplification
of this already very size optimized code.
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>
Triggered by a comment of Eelco on talkchess. Also
a bit of cleanup while there.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
It is more idiomatic for a functor (a function object) as are
the endgames.
Suggested by Rein Halbersma.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
