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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
