CMH Pruning Tweak

[stockfish] / src / search.cpp

diff --git a/src/search.cpp b/src/search.cpp
index c48b74bcc76ddc0761cdb9c44d961dffa4b0f2c0..5aa506446c3f68ef7474e4ecd49709714926c622 100644 (file)
--- a/src/search.cpp
+++ b/src/search.cpp
@@ -801,7 +801,7 @@ namespace {
         assert(eval - beta >= 0);
 
         // Null move dynamic reduction based on depth and value
-        Depth R = (1090 + 81 * depth) / 256 + std::min(int(eval - beta) / 205, 3);
+        Depth R = std::min(int(eval - beta) / 205, 3) + depth / 3 + 4;
 
         ss->currentMove = MOVE_NULL;
         ss->continuationHistory = &thisThread->continuationHistory[0][0][NO_PIECE][0];
@@ -1018,9 +1018,10 @@ moves_loop: // When in check, search starts here
           else
           {
               // Continuation history based pruning (~20 Elo)
-              if (   lmrDepth < 5
-                  && (*contHist[0])[movedPiece][to_sq(move)] < 23 - 23 * depth * depth
-                  && (*contHist[1])[movedPiece][to_sq(move)] < 23 - 23 * depth * depth)
+              if (lmrDepth < 5
+                  && (*contHist[0])[movedPiece][to_sq(move)]
+                  + (*contHist[1])[movedPiece][to_sq(move)]
+                  + (*contHist[3])[movedPiece][to_sq(move)] < -3000 * depth + 3000)
                   continue;
 
               // Futility pruning: parent node (~5 Elo)
@@ -1173,8 +1174,8 @@ moves_loop: // When in check, search starts here
 
           // In general we want to cap the LMR depth search at newDepth. But if
           // reductions are really negative and movecount is low, we allow this move
-          // to be searched deeper than the first move, unless ttMove was extended by 2.
-          Depth d = std::clamp(newDepth - r, 1, newDepth + (r < -1 && moveCount <= 5 && !doubleExtension));
+          // to be searched deeper than the first move in specific cases.
+          Depth d = std::clamp(newDepth - r, 1, newDepth + (r < -1 && (moveCount <= 5 || (depth > 6 && PvNode)) && !doubleExtension));
 
           value = -search<NonPV>(pos, ss+1, -(alpha+1), -alpha, d, true);