STOP
};
- // Our insertion sort, guaranteed to be stable, as is needed
+ // Our insertion sort, which is guaranteed (and also needed) to be stable
void insertion_sort(ExtMove* begin, ExtMove* end)
{
ExtMove tmp, *p, *q;
}
// Unary predicate used by std::partition to split positive scores from remaining
- // ones so to sort separately the two sets, and with the second sort delayed.
+ // ones so as to sort the two sets separately, with the second sort delayed.
inline bool has_positive_score(const ExtMove& ms) { return ms.score > 0; }
- // Picks and moves to the front the best move in the range [begin, end),
- // it is faster than sorting all the moves in advance when moves are few, as
- // normally are the possible captures.
+ // Picks the best move in the range (begin, end) and moves it to the front.
+ // It's faster than sorting all the moves in advance when there are few
+ // moves e.g. possible captures.
inline ExtMove* pick_best(ExtMove* begin, ExtMove* end)
{
std::swap(*begin, *std::max_element(begin, end));
/// Constructors of the MovePicker class. As arguments we pass information
-/// to help it to return the presumably good moves first, to decide which
+/// to help it to return the (presumably) good moves first, to decide which
/// moves to return (in the quiescence search, for instance, we only want to
-/// search captures, promotions and some checks) and about how important good
-/// move ordering is at the current node.
+/// search captures, promotions and some checks) and how important good move
+/// ordering is at the current node.
MovePicker::MovePicker(const Position& p, Move ttm, Depth d, const HistoryStats& h,
Move* cm, Search::Stack* s) : pos(p), history(h), depth(d) {
{
stage = QSEARCH_1;
- // Skip TT move if is not a capture or a promotion, this avoids qsearch
+ // Skip TT move if is not a capture or a promotion. This avoids qsearch
// tree explosion due to a possible perpetual check or similar rare cases
// when TT table is full.
if (ttm && !pos.capture_or_promotion(ttm))
stage = PROBCUT;
- // In ProbCut we generate only captures better than parent's captured piece
+ // In ProbCut we generate only captures that are better than the parent's
+ // captured piece.
captureThreshold = PieceValue[MG][pt];
ttMove = (ttm && pos.pseudo_legal(ttm) ? ttm : MOVE_NONE);
}
-/// stage_moves() returns a pointer to the beginning of moves array. It
-/// is used to access already tried quiet moves when updating history.
-
-const ExtMove* MovePicker::stage_moves() const {
- assert(stage == KILLERS_S1 || stage == QUIETS_1_S1 || stage == QUIETS_2_S1);
- return stage == KILLERS_S1 ? killers : moves;
-}
-
-
/// score() assign a numerical move ordering score to each move in a move list.
/// The moves with highest scores will be picked first.
template<>
// where it is possible to recapture with the hanging piece). Exchanging
// big pieces before capturing a hanging piece probably helps to reduce
// the subtree size.
- // In main search we want to push captures with negative SEE values to
- // badCaptures[] array, but instead of doing it now we delay till when
- // the move has been picked up in pick_move_from_list(), this way we save
- // some SEE calls in case we get a cutoff (idea from Pablo Vazquez).
+ // In main search we want to push captures with negative SEE values to the
+ // badCaptures[] array, but instead of doing it now we delay until the move
+ // has been picked up in pick_move_from_list(). This way we save some SEE
+ // calls in case we get a cutoff.
Move m;
for (ExtMove* it = moves; it != end; ++it)
/// next_move() is the most important method of the MovePicker class. It returns
-/// a new pseudo legal move every time is called, until there are no more moves
+/// a new pseudo legal move every time it is called, until there are no more moves
/// left. It picks the move with the biggest score from a list of generated moves
-/// taking care not returning the ttMove if has already been searched previously.
+/// taking care not returning the ttMove if it has already been searched previously.
template<>
Move MovePicker::next_move<false>() {
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