use classical for certain endgames.

[stockfish] / src / evaluate.cpp

diff --git a/src/evaluate.cpp b/src/evaluate.cpp
index 1a8cf662c6f46caa494a27bfaf84f8d24362b86f..90d11a00fd886fe5ee78e185382be71fa70264de 100644 (file)
--- a/src/evaluate.cpp
+++ b/src/evaluate.cpp
@@ -187,11 +187,11 @@ using namespace Trace;
 namespace {
 
   // Threshold for lazy and space evaluation
-  constexpr Value LazyThreshold1 =  Value(1400);
-  constexpr Value LazyThreshold2 =  Value(1300);
-  constexpr Value SpaceThreshold = Value(12222);
-  constexpr Value NNUEThreshold1 =   Value(550);
-  constexpr Value NNUEThreshold2 =   Value(150);
+  constexpr Value LazyThreshold1 =  Value(1565);
+  constexpr Value LazyThreshold2 =  Value(1102);
+  constexpr Value SpaceThreshold = Value(11551);
+  constexpr Value NNUEThreshold1 =   Value(682);
+  constexpr Value NNUEThreshold2 =   Value(176);
 
   // KingAttackWeights[PieceType] contains king attack weights by piece type
   constexpr int KingAttackWeights[PIECE_TYPE_NB] = { 0, 0, 81, 52, 44, 10 };
@@ -1035,12 +1035,14 @@ Value Eval::evaluate(const Position& pos) {
       bool  largePsq = psq * 16 > (NNUEThreshold1 + pos.non_pawn_material() / 64) * r50;
       bool  classical = largePsq || (psq > PawnValueMg / 4 && !(pos.this_thread()->nodes & 0xB));
 
-      v = classical ? Evaluation<NO_TRACE>(pos).value() : adjusted_NNUE();
+      bool strongClassical = pos.non_pawn_material() < 2 * RookValueMg && pos.count<PAWN>() < 2;
+
+      v = classical || strongClassical ? Evaluation<NO_TRACE>(pos).value() : adjusted_NNUE();
 
       // If the classical eval is small and imbalance large, use NNUE nevertheless.
       // For the case of opposite colored bishops, switch to NNUE eval with
       // small probability if the classical eval is less than the threshold.
-      if (   largePsq
+      if (   largePsq && !strongClassical
           && (   abs(v) * 16 < NNUEThreshold2 * r50
               || (   pos.opposite_bishops()
                   && abs(v) * 16 < (NNUEThreshold1 + pos.non_pawn_material() / 64) * r50