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Shallow depth pruning on NonPV advanced pawn push
authorMiguel Lahoz <miguel_lahoz@protonmail.com>
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 09:49:06 +0000 (17:49 +0800)
committerStéphane Nicolet <cassio@free.fr>
Tue, 12 Nov 2019 00:36:06 +0000 (01:36 +0100)
Usually advanced pawn pushes are not considered in shallow depth pruning
because it is risky to do so with possible promotions near the horizon.
However, this heuristic is not also beneficial on NonPV nodes since we
can afford to take slightly more risk on less important nodes.

STC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 54530 W: 11955 L: 11686 D: 30889
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dc7dda30ebc5902ea57efd0

LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 77336 W: 12786 L: 12399 D: 52151
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dc8050d0ebc5902ea57f491

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2408

Bench: 4422068

src/search.cpp

index f9579ae0ab4fac374a3f695ba629e20552f6a3fd..b484dcbe062451ade8c78aeadf04855bbaaa9c20 100644 (file)
@@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ moves_loop: // When in check, search starts from here
 
           if (   !captureOrPromotion
               && !givesCheck
-              && (!pos.advanced_pawn_push(move) || pos.non_pawn_material(~us) > BishopValueMg))
+              && (!PvNode || !pos.advanced_pawn_push(move) || pos.non_pawn_material(~us) > BishopValueMg))
           {
               // Reduced depth of the next LMR search
               int lmrDepth = std::max(newDepth - reduction(improving, depth, moveCount), 0);