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Fix doubled pawns asymmetry
authorMarco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:13:00 +0000 (12:13 +0100)
committerMarco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Fri, 21 Nov 2014 19:40:25 +0000 (20:40 +0100)
When evaluating double pawns we use always
lsb() to extract the frontmost square.

This breaks evaluation color symmetry as is
possible to verify with an instrumented evaluate()

  Value evaluate(const Position& pos) {

    Value v = do_evaluate<false>(pos);
    Position p = pos;
    p.flip();
    assert(v == do_evaluate<false>(p));
    return v;
  }

Passed no regression test:

STC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 21035 W: 4244 L: 4122 D: 12669

LTC
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 39839 W: 6662 L: 6572 D: 26605

bench: 8255966

src/pawns.cpp

index 1099c5a48a67a9e5f15f1526ce720c299800c06a..fe989e9b8f24a502f7febb083f4b6733beae5d8b 100644 (file)
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ namespace {
             value -= UnsupportedPawnPenalty;
 
         if (doubled)
-            value -= Doubled[f] / distance<Rank>(s, Square(lsb(doubled)));
+            value -= Doubled[f] / distance<Rank>(s, frontmost_sq(Us, doubled));
 
         if (backward)
             value -= Backward[opposed][f];