X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fmovepick.h;h=7d78886fb648cf2c7fe6eedbdaf935549bcfab86;hb=e4b7403f127a36a35bbace9f833ab43babd98a6c;hp=5232ee4d4865db20e104edfe2d6b2aeb01c41ec0;hpb=87586b3d0c8961c2fc9330e2f8ac2f8c3fe79018;p=stockfish diff --git a/src/movepick.h b/src/movepick.h index 5232ee4d..7d78886f 100644 --- a/src/movepick.h +++ b/src/movepick.h @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ #include "position.h" #include "types.h" +namespace Stockfish { + /// StatsEntry stores the stat table value. It is usually a number but could /// be a move or even a nested history. We use a class instead of naked value /// to directly call history update operator<<() on the entry so to use stats @@ -84,11 +86,11 @@ enum StatsType { NoCaptures, Captures }; /// unsuccessful during the current search, and is used for reduction and move /// ordering decisions. It uses 2 tables (one for each color) indexed by /// the move's from and to squares, see www.chessprogramming.org/Butterfly_Boards -typedef Stats ButterflyHistory; +typedef Stats ButterflyHistory; /// At higher depths LowPlyHistory records successful quiet moves near the root -/// and quiet moves which are/were in the PV (ttPv). It is cleared with each new -/// search and filled during iterative deepening. +/// and quiet moves which are/were in the PV (ttPv). LowPlyHistory is populated during +/// iterative deepening and at each new search the data is shifted down by 2 plies constexpr int MAX_LPH = 4; typedef Stats LowPlyHistory; @@ -111,9 +113,9 @@ typedef Stats ContinuationHistory /// MovePicker class is used to pick one pseudo-legal move at a time from the /// current position. The most important method is next_move(), which returns a /// new pseudo-legal move each time it is called, until there are no moves left, -/// when MOVE_NONE is returned. In order to improve the efficiency of the alpha -/// beta algorithm, MovePicker attempts to return the moves which are most likely -/// to get a cut-off first. +/// when MOVE_NONE is returned. In order to improve the efficiency of the +/// alpha-beta algorithm, MovePicker attempts to return the moves which are most +/// likely to get a cut-off first. class MovePicker { enum PickType { Next, Best }; @@ -156,4 +158,6 @@ private: ExtMove moves[MAX_MOVES]; }; +} // namespace Stockfish + #endif // #ifndef MOVEPICK_H_INCLUDED