Do more reductions for late quiet moves in case of consecutive fail highs.

[stockfish] / src / search.cpp

diff --git a/src/search.cpp b/src/search.cpp
index c7343ce8002ccd4aff7fcc41d8f9dce346efe6df..ab58ca648cfa802777d69f54eabf644f3f01966b 100644 (file)
--- a/src/search.cpp
+++ b/src/search.cpp
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ void Thread::search() {
           // Start with a small aspiration window and, in the case of a fail
           // high/low, re-search with a bigger window until we don't fail
           // high/low anymore.
-          int failedHighCnt = 0;
+          failedHighCnt = 0;
           while (true)
           {
               Depth adjustedDepth = std::max(1, rootDepth - failedHighCnt - searchAgainCounter);
@@ -1049,15 +1049,6 @@ moves_loop: // When in check, search starts from here
                   && captureHistory[movedPiece][to_sq(move)][type_of(pos.piece_on(to_sq(move)))] < 0)
                   continue;
 
-              // Futility pruning for captures
-              if (   !givesCheck
-                  && lmrDepth < 6
-                  && !(PvNode && abs(bestValue) < 2)
-                  && !ss->inCheck
-                  && ss->staticEval + 169 + 244 * lmrDepth
-                     + PieceValue[MG][type_of(pos.piece_on(to_sq(move)))] <= alpha)
-                  continue;
-
               // See based pruning
               if (!pos.see_ge(move, Value(-221) * depth)) // (~25 Elo)
                   continue;
@@ -1186,6 +1177,9 @@ moves_loop: // When in check, search starts from here
               if (ttCapture)
                   r++;
 
+              // Increase reduction at root if failing high
+              r += rootNode ? thisThread->failedHighCnt * thisThread->failedHighCnt * moveCount / 512 : 0;
+
               // Increase reduction for cut nodes (~10 Elo)
               if (cutNode)
                   r += 2;