Avoid more expensive legality check

[stockfish] / src / movepick.h

diff --git a/src/movepick.h b/src/movepick.h
index 97ea5bec75f2c434585bf57ce47746aba9a6d60d..ea599cda1afbe10a04f8a2f9f77ffc4becc237b8 100644 (file)
--- a/src/movepick.h
+++ b/src/movepick.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
   Stockfish, a UCI chess playing engine derived from Glaurung 2.1
-  Copyright (C) 2004-2020 The Stockfish developers (see AUTHORS file)
+  Copyright (C) 2004-2021 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
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ 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<int16_t, 10692, COLOR_NB, int(SQUARE_NB) * int(SQUARE_NB)> ButterflyHistory;
+typedef Stats<int16_t, 13365, COLOR_NB, int(SQUARE_NB) * int(SQUARE_NB)> 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
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ constexpr int MAX_LPH = 4;
 typedef Stats<int16_t, 10692, MAX_LPH, int(SQUARE_NB) * int(SQUARE_NB)> LowPlyHistory;
 
 /// CounterMoveHistory stores counter moves indexed by [piece][to] of the previous
-/// move, see www.chessprogramming.org/Countermove_Heuristic 
+/// move, see www.chessprogramming.org/Countermove_Heuristic
 typedef Stats<Move, NOT_USED, PIECE_NB, SQUARE_NB> CounterMoveHistory;
 
 /// CapturePieceToHistory is addressed by a move's [piece][to][captured piece type]
@@ -108,12 +108,12 @@ typedef Stats<int16_t, 29952, PIECE_NB, SQUARE_NB> PieceToHistory;
 typedef Stats<PieceToHistory, NOT_USED, PIECE_NB, SQUARE_NB> ContinuationHistory;
 
 
-/// MovePicker class is used to pick one pseudo legal move at a time from the
+/// 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.
+/// 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.
 class MovePicker {
 
   enum PickType { Next, Best };