There was already a penalty for squares only defended by King (undefended)
This test records a penalty for completely undefended squares in the so called extended king-ring
(so if we exclude squares defended by a Kg8 for example, we only look at h6 g6 and f6)
We also exclude squares occupied by opponent pieces in this computation,
based on the following results
Was yellow at STC
LLR: -2.97 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,5.00]
Total: 112499 W: 20649 L: 20293 D: 71557
and passed LTC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,5.00]
Total: 36805 W: 5100 L: 4857 D: 26848
Bench: 8430233
Resolves: #619
Also a speedup(about 1%) on 64-bit w/o hardware popcnt
Retire Max15 and Full template parameters
(Contributed by Marco Costalba)
Now that we have just SW and HW versions, use
template default parameter to get rid of explicit
template parameters.
Retire bitcount.h and move the only defined
function to bitboard.h
No functional change
Resolves#620
Give more weight to the pawns number and
the vertical king distance in evaluate_initiative()
Passed STC:
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,5.00]
Total: 26729 W: 5067 L: 4825 D: 16837
and LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,5.00]
Total: 60480 W: 8338 L: 8016 D: 44126
Bench: 8295162
Resolves#594
Tuned the global mobility factor for each piece, as well as some +- delta,
The master mobility factor was {266,334} and tuning gave
{267, 362} +S(-2,-2) for the Knight
{249, 328} +S( 0,-2) for the Bishop
{298, 353} +S(1,1) for the Rook
{265, 358} +S(2,-1) for the Queen
Passed STC
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]
Total: 49402 W: 9367 L: 9037 D: 30998
and LTC
LLR: 2.97 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,5.00]
Total: 26831 W: 3871 L: 3658 D: 19302
Bench: 8355485
Resolves#536
Also inline defintions of SpaceMask and CenterBindMask.
Verified from assembly that compiler computes the values
at compile time, so it is also theoretical faster.
While there factor out scale factor evaluation.
No functional change.
Using less parameters and code to compute Threats
Includes also a few spacing edits.
Run as a simplification.
Passed STC 10+0.1
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 18879 W: 3725 L: 3600 D: 11554
Passed LTC 60+0.4
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 74116 W: 11001 L: 10958 D: 52157
bench: 8004751
Collect and give a second try to some almost passed tuning attempts and
one-line tweaks from the last month.
Passed STC
LLR: 3.07 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]
Total: 15124 W: 2974 L: 2756 D: 9394
And LTC
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]
Total: 21577 W: 3507 L: 3289 D: 14781
Bench: 8855226
Resolves#464
Apart from usual renaiming, take advantage of
C++11 function template default parmeter to
get rid of Eval trampoline functions.
Some triviality fixes while there.
No functional change.
PawnSafePush, with the value S(5,5) proved not "necessary"
possibly due to recent changes to MobilityArea and other changes to Connected bonus.
STC:
LLR: 3.22 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 98528 W: 18757 L: 18759 D: 61012
LTC:
LLR: 5.30 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 204194 W: 31698 L: 31734 D: 140762
Bench: 7620871
Resolves#396
Use Position::square and Position::squares instead.
This allow us to remove king_square(), simplify
endgames and to have more naming uniformity.
Moreover, this is a prerequisite step in case
in the future we decide to retire piece lists
altoghter and use pop_lsb() to loop across
pieces and serialize the moves. In this way
we just need to change definition of Position::square
to something like:
template<PieceType Pt> inline
Square Position::square(Color c) const {
return lsb(byColorBB[c]);
}
No functional change.
Based off of Pull request #383:
Include squares occupied by some pawns in the MobilityArea
a) not blocked
b) on rank 4 and above
c) or captures
Passed STC
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 8157 W: 1644 L: 1516 D: 4997
And LTC
LLR: 2.97 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,6.00]
Total: 26086 W: 4274 L: 4051 D: 17761
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Then, a simplification test failed, trying to remove b and c)
LLR: -2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 6048 W: 1117 L: 1288 D: 3643
Another simplification test, was run to remove just (c)
Passed STC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 28073 W: 5364 L: 5255 D: 17454
And LTC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 34652 W: 5448 L: 5348 D: 23856
A parameter tweak test showed that changing b) for "on rank 3 and above"
does not work
LLR: -2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]
Total: 5233 W: 937 L: 1077 D: 3219
Finally, a small rewrite, and we have this version
Include squares occupied by some pawns in the MobilityArea which are
a) not blocked
b) on rank 4 and above
Bench: 8977899
Resolves#385
Error is:
a value of type "int" cannot be assigned to an entity of type "Value"
Also retire the now unused squares_of_color() function.
No functional change.
In ei.attackedBy, Queen does not x-ray through Rook, but the Rook does
X-ray through the Queen.
So most of the rook contact checks supported by queen are, in fact,
Queen Contact Checks and they are already scored separately.
Bench: 7762189
Resolves#338
Both are the result of a SPSA tuning session with a custom book, 50k iterations each.
After an additional tuning session of the mobility values, tuning the delta values, with following result.
40k games at 9+0.05:
ELO: 4.13 +-2.2 (95%) LOS: 100.0%
Total: 40000 W: 8581 L: 8106 D: 23313
and LTC
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]
Total: 36518 W: 6049 L: 5782 D: 24687
Bench: 8567402
Resolves#284
