Tweak dynamic contempt (the birthday patch)

Make dynamic contempt weight factor dependent on static contempt so that higher
static contempt implies less dynamic contempt and vice versa. For default contempt
24 this is a non-functional change. But tests with contempt 0 shows an elo gain.
Also today is my birthday so i have already give to myself a gift with this patch :-)!

Further proceedings:

in the past we checked for default contempt that it doesn't regress against
contempt 0. Now that the later is stronger and the former is the same strength
this should be rechecked. Perhaps the default contempt have to be lowered.
It would be interesting to get some idea of the impact of this patch outside
of the 0-24 contempt range.

STC: (both with contempt=0)
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 21912 W: 3898 L: 3740 D: 14274
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5db74b6f0ebc5902d1f37405

LTC: (both with contempt=0)
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 27172 W: 3350 L: 3126 D: 20696
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5db760020ebc5902d1f375d0

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2382

No functional change (for current default contempt 24).

diff --git a/src/search.cpp b/src/search.cpp
index 086761a3561b879227231d72279b5c191f015a31..b571cdf1787204e6c3e7c919da7c782de33439d4 100644 (file)
--- a/src/search.cpp
+++ b/src/search.cpp
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ void Thread::search() {
               beta  = std::min(previousScore + delta, VALUE_INFINITE);
 
               // Adjust contempt based on root move's previousScore (dynamic contempt)
               beta  = std::min(previousScore + delta, VALUE_INFINITE);
 
               // Adjust contempt based on root move's previousScore (dynamic contempt)

-              int dct = ct + 86 * previousScore / (abs(previousScore) + 176);
+              int dct = ct + (111 - ct / 2) * previousScore / (abs(previousScore) + 176);

 
               contempt = (us == WHITE ?  make_score(dct, dct / 2)
                                       : -make_score(dct, dct / 2));
 
               contempt = (us == WHITE ?  make_score(dct, dct / 2)
                                       : -make_score(dct, dct / 2));