Allow null pruning at depth 1

[stockfish] / src / search.cpp

diff --git a/src/search.cpp b/src/search.cpp
index a36601bffc48f6965652694e886747c4a29a838a..a81c85273aa4e6325e103dcd1d7ec1afc2636054 100644 (file)
--- a/src/search.cpp
+++ b/src/search.cpp
@@ -729,8 +729,8 @@ namespace {
 
     // Step 8. Null move search with verification search (is omitted in PV nodes)
     if (   !PvNode
-        &&  depth >= 2 * ONE_PLY
         &&  eval >= beta
+        && (ss->staticEval >= beta - 35 * (depth / ONE_PLY - 6) || depth >= 13 * ONE_PLY)
         &&  pos.non_pawn_material(pos.side_to_move()))
     {
         ss->currentMove = MOVE_NULL;
@@ -815,7 +815,6 @@ namespace {
 
 moves_loop: // When in check search starts from here
 
-    Square prevSq = to_sq((ss-1)->currentMove);
     const CounterMoveStats* cmh  = (ss-1)->counterMoves;
     const CounterMoveStats* fmh  = (ss-2)->counterMoves;
     const CounterMoveStats* fmh2 = (ss-4)->counterMoves;
@@ -930,9 +929,16 @@ moves_loop: // When in check search starts from here
               && ss->staticEval + futility_margin(predictedDepth) + 256 <= alpha)
               continue;
 
-          // Prune moves with negative SEE at low depths
-          if (predictedDepth < 4 * ONE_PLY && pos.see_sign(move) < VALUE_ZERO)
-              continue;
+          // Prune moves with negative SEE at low depths and below a decreasing
+          // threshold at higher depths.
+          if (predictedDepth < 8 * ONE_PLY)
+          {
+              Value see_v = predictedDepth < 4 * ONE_PLY ? VALUE_ZERO
+                            : -PawnValueMg * 2 * int(predictedDepth - 3 * ONE_PLY);
+
+              if (pos.see_sign(move) < see_v)
+                  continue;
+          }
       }
 
       // Speculative prefetch as early as possible
@@ -1106,10 +1112,10 @@ moves_loop: // When in check search starts from here
     // Bonus for prior countermove that caused the fail low
     else if (    depth >= 3 * ONE_PLY
              && !bestMove
-             && !inCheck
              && !pos.captured_piece_type()
              && is_ok((ss-1)->currentMove))
     {
+        Square prevSq = to_sq((ss-1)->currentMove);
         Value bonus = Value((depth / ONE_PLY) * (depth / ONE_PLY) + 2 * depth / ONE_PLY - 2);
         if ((ss-2)->counterMoves)
             (ss-2)->counterMoves->update(pos.piece_on(prevSq), prevSq, bonus);
@@ -1574,16 +1580,16 @@ bool RootMove::extract_ponder_from_tt(Position& pos)
 
     pos.do_move(pv[0], st, pos.gives_check(pv[0], CheckInfo(pos)));
     TTEntry* tte = TT.probe(pos.key(), ttHit);
-    pos.undo_move(pv[0]);
 
     if (ttHit)
     {
         Move m = tte->move(); // Local copy to be SMP safe
         if (MoveList<LEGAL>(pos).contains(m))
-           return pv.push_back(m), true;
+            pv.push_back(m);
     }
 
-    return false;
+    pos.undo_move(pv[0]);
+    return pv.size() > 1;
 }
 
 void Tablebases::filter_root_moves(Position& pos, Search::RootMoves& rootMoves) {