Simplify endgame factor for opposite colored bishops

Stockfish is continually improving. Patches that gain elo in the past may
no longer be needed as stockfish improved elsewhere. This patch removes
passed pawns count dependence in opposite colored bishops scale factor.
We used the mean of passed count pawns (~1.4) to compensate, and changed
the base value from 16 to 22.

Passed STC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 57879 W: 12657 L: 12607 D: 32615
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dd1644f42928ff08153dc1e

Passed LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 121648 W: 19622 L: 19659 D: 82367
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dd24572ccb823d41d4b47bb

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2419

Bench: 5067864

diff --git a/src/evaluate.cpp b/src/evaluate.cpp
index 7760f70538d411e445324d2df749f6510c084dee..eb5719bdad01326d9d6cdbebf44afc3c9bdf32c7 100644 (file)
--- a/src/evaluate.cpp
+++ b/src/evaluate.cpp
@@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ namespace {
     {
         if (   pos.opposite_bishops()
             && pos.non_pawn_material() == 2 * BishopValueMg)
-            sf = 16 + 4 * pe->passed_count();
+            sf = 22 ;
         else
             sf = std::min(sf, 36 + (pos.opposite_bishops() ? 2 : 7) * pos.count<PAWN>(strongSide));