Avoid more expensive legality check

[stockfish] / src / movepick.h

diff --git a/src/movepick.h b/src/movepick.h
index f8472c6e67f9ac2de7bc9055938749e720777a52..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
@@ -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 };