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BadFish/src/thread.h
Stéphane Nicolet b25d68f6ee Introduce simple_eval() for lazy evaluations
This patch implements the pure materialistic evaluation called simple_eval()
to gain a speed-up during Stockfish search.

We use the so-called lazy evaluation trick: replace the accurate but slow
NNUE network evaluation by the super-fast simple_eval() if the position
seems to be already won (high material advantage). To guard against some
of the most obvious blunders introduced by this idea, this patch uses the
following features which will raise the lazy evaluation threshold in some
situations:

- avoid lazy evals on shuffling branches in the search tree
- avoid lazy evals if the position at root already has a material imbalance
- avoid lazy evals if the search value at root is already winning/losing.

Moreover, we add a small random noise to the simple_eval() term. This idea
(stochastic mobility in the minimax tree) was worth about 200 Elo in the pure
simple_eval() player on Lichess.

Overall, the current implementation in this patch evaluates about 2% of the
leaves in the search tree lazily.

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STC:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00>
Total: 60352 W: 15585 L: 15234 D: 29533
Ptnml(0-2): 216, 6906, 15578, 7263, 213
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/64f1d9bcbd9967ffae366209

LTC:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,2.50>
Total: 35106 W: 8990 L: 8678 D: 17438
Ptnml(0-2): 14, 3668, 9887, 3960, 24
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/64f25204f5b0c54e3f04c0e7

verification run at VLTC:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,2.50>
Total: 74362 W: 19088 L: 18716 D: 36558
Ptnml(0-2): 6, 7226, 22348, 7592, 9
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/64f2ecdbf5b0c54e3f04d3ae

All three tests above were run with adjudication off, we also verified that
there was no regression on matetracker (thanks Disservin!).

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closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/4771

Bench: 1393714
2023-09-03 09:28:16 +02:00

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/*
Stockfish, a UCI chess playing engine derived from Glaurung 2.1
Copyright (C) 2004-2023 The Stockfish developers (see AUTHORS file)
Stockfish is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
Stockfish is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
#ifndef THREAD_H_INCLUDED
#define THREAD_H_INCLUDED
#include <atomic>
#include <condition_variable>
#include <cstddef>
#include <cstdint>
#include <mutex>
#include <vector>
#include "movepick.h"
#include "position.h"
#include "search.h"
#include "thread_win32_osx.h"
#include "types.h"
namespace Stockfish {
/// Thread class keeps together all the thread-related stuff. We use
/// per-thread pawn and material hash tables so that once we get a
/// pointer to an entry its life time is unlimited and we don't have
/// to care about someone changing the entry under our feet.
class Thread {
std::mutex mutex;
std::condition_variable cv;
size_t idx;
bool exit = false, searching = true; // Set before starting std::thread
NativeThread stdThread;
public:
explicit Thread(size_t);
virtual ~Thread();
virtual void search();
void clear();
void idle_loop();
void start_searching();
void wait_for_search_finished();
size_t id() const { return idx; }
size_t pvIdx, pvLast;
std::atomic<uint64_t> nodes, tbHits, bestMoveChanges;
int selDepth, nmpMinPly;
Value bestValue, optimism[COLOR_NB];
Position rootPos;
StateInfo rootState;
Search::RootMoves rootMoves;
Depth rootDepth, completedDepth;
Value rootDelta;
Value rootSimpleEval;
CounterMoveHistory counterMoves;
ButterflyHistory mainHistory;
CapturePieceToHistory captureHistory;
ContinuationHistory continuationHistory[2][2];
};
/// MainThread is a derived class specific for main thread
struct MainThread : public Thread {
using Thread::Thread;
void search() override;
void check_time();
double previousTimeReduction;
Value bestPreviousScore;
Value bestPreviousAverageScore;
Value iterValue[4];
int callsCnt;
bool stopOnPonderhit;
std::atomic_bool ponder;
};
/// ThreadPool struct handles all the threads-related stuff like init, starting,
/// parking and, most importantly, launching a thread. All the access to threads
/// is done through this class.
struct ThreadPool {
void start_thinking(Position&, StateListPtr&, const Search::LimitsType&, bool = false);
void clear();
void set(size_t);
MainThread* main() const { return static_cast<MainThread*>(threads.front()); }
uint64_t nodes_searched() const { return accumulate(&Thread::nodes); }
uint64_t tb_hits() const { return accumulate(&Thread::tbHits); }
Thread* get_best_thread() const;
void start_searching();
void wait_for_search_finished() const;
std::atomic_bool stop, increaseDepth;
auto cbegin() const noexcept { return threads.cbegin(); }
auto begin() noexcept { return threads.begin(); }
auto end() noexcept { return threads.end(); }
auto cend() const noexcept { return threads.cend(); }
auto size() const noexcept { return threads.size(); }
auto empty() const noexcept { return threads.empty(); }
private:
StateListPtr setupStates;
std::vector<Thread*> threads;
uint64_t accumulate(std::atomic<uint64_t> Thread::* member) const {
uint64_t sum = 0;
for (Thread* th : threads)
sum += (th->*member).load(std::memory_order_relaxed);
return sum;
}
};
extern ThreadPool Threads;
} // namespace Stockfish
#endif // #ifndef THREAD_H_INCLUDED