Remove dead code in search

[stockfish] / src / search.cpp

diff --git a/src/search.cpp b/src/search.cpp
index 0068cbcac2e609079da443003ca267a87745c933..3d18e6d2c709eded247e0b8af5d2ec53b5fed288 100644 (file)
--- a/src/search.cpp
+++ b/src/search.cpp
@@ -1017,10 +1017,6 @@ moves_loop: // When in check and at SpNode search starts from here
         return  excludedMove ? alpha
               : inCheck ? mated_in(ss->ply) : DrawValue[pos.side_to_move()];
 
-    // If we have pruned all the moves without searching return a fail-low score
-    if (bestValue == -VALUE_INFINITE)
-        bestValue = alpha;
-
     TT.store(posKey, value_to_tt(bestValue, ss->ply),
              bestValue >= beta  ? BOUND_LOWER :
              PvNode && bestMove ? BOUND_EXACT : BOUND_UPPER,