beta = *betaPtr;
isCheck = pos.is_check();
- // Step 1. Initialize node and poll (omitted at root, but I can see no good reason for this, FIXME)
- // Step 2. Check for aborted search (omitted at root, because we do not initialize root node)
+ // Step 1. Initialize node and poll (omitted at root, init_ss_array() has already initialized root node)
+ // Step 2. Check for aborted search (omitted at root)
// Step 3. Mate distance pruning (omitted at root)
// Step 4. Transposition table lookup (omitted at root)
// At root we do this only to get reference value for child nodes
if (!isCheck)
ss[0].eval = evaluate(pos, ei, 0);
- else
- ss[0].eval = VALUE_NONE; // HACK because we do not initialize root node
// Step 6. Razoring (omitted at root)
// Step 7. Static null move pruning (omitted at root)