Do not refresh TT in qsearch

[stockfish] / src / search.cpp

diff --git a/src/search.cpp b/src/search.cpp
index dfe5efa922840b8cc398152495c292045b2e5993..ec884b3c145afc20dbcdff887e056ba671552827 100644 (file)
--- a/src/search.cpp
+++ b/src/search.cpp
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ namespace {
   Depth extension(const Position&, Move, bool, bool, bool, bool, bool, bool*);
   bool ok_to_do_nullmove(const Position& pos);
   bool ok_to_prune(const Position& pos, Move m, Move threat);
-  bool ok_to_use_TT(const TTEntry* tte, Depth depth, Value beta, int ply, bool allowNullmove);
+  bool ok_to_use_TT(const TTEntry* tte, Depth depth, Value beta, int ply);
   Value refine_eval(const TTEntry* tte, Value defaultEval, int ply);
   void update_history(const Position& pos, Move move, Depth depth, Move movesSearched[], int moveCount);
   void update_killers(Move m, SearchStack& ss);
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ void init_search() {
       for (int j = 0; j < 64; j++) // j == moveNumber
       {
           // FIXME: test using log instead of BSR
-          FutilityMarginsMatrix[i][j] = (i < 2 ? 0 : 112 * bitScanReverse32(i * i / 2)) - 8 * j;
+          FutilityMarginsMatrix[i][j] = (i < 2 ? 0 : 112 * bitScanReverse32(i * i / 2)) - 8 * j + 45;
       }
 
   // Init futility move count array
@@ -1299,8 +1299,11 @@ namespace {
     tte = TT.retrieve(posKey);
     ttMove = (tte ? tte->move() : MOVE_NONE);
 
-    if (tte && ok_to_use_TT(tte, depth, beta, ply, allowNullmove))
+    if (tte && ok_to_use_TT(tte, depth, beta, ply))
     {
+        // Refresh tte entry to avoid aging
+        TT.store(posKey, tte->value(), tte->type(), tte->depth(), ttMove);
+
         ss[ply].currentMove = ttMove; // Can be MOVE_NONE
         return value_from_tt(tte->value(), ply);
     }
@@ -1379,18 +1382,13 @@ namespace {
             if (nullValue >= value_mate_in(PLY_MAX))
                 nullValue = beta;
 
-            // Do zugzwang verification search for high depths, don't store in TT
-            // if search was stopped.
-            if (   (   depth < 6 * OnePly
-                    || search(pos, ss, beta, depth-5*OnePly, ply, false, threadID) >= beta)
-                && !AbortSearch
-                && !TM.thread_should_stop(threadID))
-            {
-                assert(value_to_tt(nullValue, ply) == nullValue);
+            if (depth < 6 * OnePly)
+                return nullValue;
 
-                TT.store(posKey, nullValue, VALUE_TYPE_NS_LO, depth, MOVE_NONE);
+            // Do zugzwang verification search
+            Value v = search(pos, ss, beta, depth-5*OnePly, ply, false, threadID);
+            if (v >= beta)
                 return nullValue;
-            }
         } else {
             // The null move failed low, which means that we may be faced with
             // some kind of threat. If the previous move was reduced, check if
@@ -1485,7 +1483,7 @@ namespace {
           // Value based pruning
           Depth predictedDepth = newDepth - nonpv_reduction(depth, moveCount); // We illogically ignore reduction condition depth >= 3*OnePly
           futilityValueScaled =  ss[ply].eval + futility_margin(predictedDepth, moveCount)
-                               + H.gain(pos.piece_on(move_from(move)), move_to(move)) + 45;
+                               + H.gain(pos.piece_on(move_from(move)), move_to(move));
 
           if (futilityValueScaled < beta)
           {
@@ -1625,7 +1623,7 @@ namespace {
     tte = TT.retrieve(pos.get_key());
     ttMove = (tte ? tte->move() : MOVE_NONE);
 
-    if (!pvNode && tte && ok_to_use_TT(tte, depth, beta, ply, true))
+    if (!pvNode && tte && ok_to_use_TT(tte, depth, beta, ply))
     {
         assert(tte->type() != VALUE_TYPE_EVAL);
 
@@ -1843,7 +1841,7 @@ namespace {
           // Value based pruning
           Depth predictedDepth = newDepth - nonpv_reduction(sp->depth, moveCount);
           futilityValueScaled =  ss[sp->ply].eval + futility_margin(predictedDepth, moveCount)
-                                     + H.gain(pos.piece_on(move_from(move)), move_to(move)) + 45;
+                               + H.gain(pos.piece_on(move_from(move)), move_to(move));
 
           if (futilityValueScaled < sp->beta)
           {
@@ -2306,18 +2304,14 @@ namespace {
   }
 
 
-  // ok_to_use_TT() returns true if a transposition table score can be used at a
-  // given point in search. To avoid zugzwang issues TT cutoffs at the root node
-  // of a null move verification search are not allowed if the TT value was found
-  // by a null search, this is implemented testing allowNullmove and TT entry type.
+  // ok_to_use_TT() returns true if a transposition table score
+  // can be used at a given point in search.
 
-  bool ok_to_use_TT(const TTEntry* tte, Depth depth, Value beta, int ply, bool allowNullmove) {
+  bool ok_to_use_TT(const TTEntry* tte, Depth depth, Value beta, int ply) {
 
     Value v = value_from_tt(tte->value(), ply);
 
-    return   (allowNullmove || !(tte->type() & VALUE_TYPE_NULL))
-
-          && (   tte->depth() >= depth
+    return   (   tte->depth() >= depth
               || v >= Max(value_mate_in(PLY_MAX), beta)
               || v < Min(value_mated_in(PLY_MAX), beta))