Perform qsearch for the preliminary search in Probcut
Passed STC with sprt[-3..1] bounds:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 31090 W: 6386 L: 6283 D: 18421
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/
5aa598ed0ebc59029780ff9f
Passed LTC with sprt[0..4] bounds:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]
Total: 104056 W: 15990 L: 15531 D: 72535
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/
5aa5b0f30ebc59029780ffa9
Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/1483
Bench:
5404567
- // Perform a preliminary search at depth 1 to verify that the move holds.
- // We will only do this search if the depth is not 5, thus avoiding two
- // searches at depth 1 in a row.
- if (depth != 5 * ONE_PLY)
- value = -search<NonPV>(pos, ss+1, -rbeta, -rbeta+1, ONE_PLY, !cutNode, true);
-
- // If the first search was skipped or was performed and held, perform
- // the regular search.
- if (depth == 5 * ONE_PLY || value >= rbeta)
+ // Perform a preliminary qsearch to verify that the move holds
+ value = -qsearch<NonPV>(pos, ss+1, -rbeta, -rbeta+1);
+
+ // If the qsearch held perform the regular search
+ if (value >= rbeta)
value = -search<NonPV>(pos, ss+1, -rbeta, -rbeta+1, depth - 4 * ONE_PLY, !cutNode, false);
pos.undo_move(move);
value = -search<NonPV>(pos, ss+1, -rbeta, -rbeta+1, depth - 4 * ONE_PLY, !cutNode, false);
pos.undo_move(move);