X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?p=stockfish;a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fmovepick.h;h=2932d9a8a0df071da91263b99817db28977d7049;hp=aaff388f641c0d61f239a722bb11d9b2f2808bb6;hb=f21a66f70dce4e9d72031a13d25ac530bbafc830;hpb=6f15e7fab277c2595633ad08fdc25bdd7e0ab166 diff --git a/src/movepick.h b/src/movepick.h index aaff388f..2932d9a8 100644 --- a/src/movepick.h +++ b/src/movepick.h @@ -1,8 +1,6 @@ /* Stockfish, a UCI chess playing engine derived from Glaurung 2.1 - Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Tord Romstad (Glaurung author) - Copyright (C) 2008-2015 Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Tord Romstad - Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Gary Linscott, Tord Romstad + Copyright (C) 2004-2021 The Stockfish developers (see AUTHORS file) Stockfish is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by @@ -29,6 +27,8 @@ #include "position.h" #include "types.h" +namespace Stockfish { + /// StatsEntry stores the stat table value. It is usually a number but could /// be a move or even a nested history. We use a class instead of naked value /// to directly call history update operator<<() on the entry so to use stats @@ -86,11 +86,11 @@ enum StatsType { NoCaptures, Captures }; /// unsuccessful during the current search, and is used for reduction and move /// ordering decisions. It uses 2 tables (one for each color) indexed by /// the move's from and to squares, see www.chessprogramming.org/Butterfly_Boards -typedef Stats ButterflyHistory; +typedef Stats ButterflyHistory; -/// At higher depths LowPlyHistory records successful quiet moves near the root and quiet -/// moves which are/were in the PV (ttPv) -/// It is cleared with each new search and filled during iterative deepening +/// At higher depths LowPlyHistory records successful quiet moves near the root +/// and quiet moves which are/were in the PV (ttPv). LowPlyHistory is populated during +/// iterative deepening and at each new search the data is shifted down by 2 plies constexpr int MAX_LPH = 4; typedef Stats LowPlyHistory; @@ -110,12 +110,12 @@ typedef Stats PieceToHistory; typedef Stats ContinuationHistory; -/// MovePicker class is used to pick one pseudo legal move at a time from the +/// MovePicker class is used to pick one pseudo-legal move at a time from the /// current position. The most important method is next_move(), which returns a -/// new pseudo legal move each time it is called, until there are no moves left, -/// when MOVE_NONE is returned. In order to improve the efficiency of the alpha -/// beta algorithm, MovePicker attempts to return the moves which are most likely -/// to get a cut-off first. +/// new pseudo-legal move each time it is called, until there are no moves left, +/// when MOVE_NONE is returned. In order to improve the efficiency of the +/// alpha-beta algorithm, MovePicker attempts to return the moves which are most +/// likely to get a cut-off first. class MovePicker { enum PickType { Next, Best }; @@ -158,4 +158,6 @@ private: ExtMove moves[MAX_MOVES]; }; +} // namespace Stockfish + #endif // #ifndef MOVEPICK_H_INCLUDED