X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?p=stockfish;a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fmovepick.h;h=ea599cda1afbe10a04f8a2f9f77ffc4becc237b8;hp=33c4b08602bbd78ecdfd1a978ef287a43f713ec5;hb=7d0a16e06d968c81f17140b0123db9768ce02a82;hpb=b8c00efa2767ebf74545d2ba4bd344ef7c963319 diff --git a/src/movepick.h b/src/movepick.h index 33c4b086..ea599cda 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 @@ -86,11 +84,11 @@ 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; -/// LowPlyHistory at higher depths records successful quiet moves on plies 0 to 3 -/// and quiet moves which are/were in the PV (ttPv) -/// It get cleared with each new search and get 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). It is cleared with each new +/// search and filled during iterative deepening. constexpr int MAX_LPH = 4; typedef Stats LowPlyHistory; @@ -110,12 +108,12 @@ 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 }; @@ -133,7 +131,7 @@ public: const CapturePieceToHistory*, const PieceToHistory**, Move, - Move*, + const Move*, int); Move next_move(bool skipQuiets = false);