Idea is to extend some quiet ttMoves if a lot of things indicate that
the transposition table move is going to be a good move:
1) move being a killer - so being the best move in nearby node;
2) reply continuation history is really good.
This is basically saying that move is good "in general" in this position,
that it is a good reply to the opponent move and that it was the best in
this position somewhere in search - so extending it makes a lot of sense.
In general in past year we had a lot of extensions of different types,
maybe there is something more in it :)
passed STC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) <-0.50,2.50>
Total: 42944 W: 10932 L: 10695 D: 21317
Ptnml(0-2): 141, 4869, 11210, 5116, 136
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/
614cca8e7bdc23e77ceb89f0
passed LTC
LLR: 2.93 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,3.50>
Total: 156848 W: 39473 L: 38893 D: 78482
Ptnml(0-2): 125, 16327, 44913, 16961, 98
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/
614cf93d7bdc23e77ceb8a13
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3719
Bench:
5714575
// Check extensions
else if ( givesCheck
&& depth > 6
- && abs(ss->staticEval) > Value(100))
+ && abs(ss->staticEval) > 100)
+ extension = 1;
+
+ // Quiet ttMove extensions
+ else if ( PvNode
+ && move == ttMove
+ && move == ss->killers[0]
+ && (*contHist[0])[movedPiece][to_sq(move)] >= 10000)
extension = 1;
// Add extension to new depth
// Decrease/increase reduction for moves with a good/bad history (~30 Elo)
r -= ss->statScore / 14721;
- // In general we want to cap the LMR depth search at newDepth. But if
- // reductions are really negative and movecount is low, we allow this move
- // to be searched deeper than the first move in specific cases (note that
- // this may lead to hidden double extensions if newDepth got it own extension
- // before).
+ // In general we want to cap the LMR depth search at newDepth. But if reductions
+ // are really negative and movecount is low, we allow this move to be searched
+ // deeper than the first move (this may lead to hidden double extensions if
+ // newDepth got its own extension before).
int deeper = r >= -1 ? 0
: noLMRExtension ? 0
: moveCount <= 5 ? 1