const bool UseIIDAtPVNodes = true;
const bool UseIIDAtNonPVNodes = false;
- // Use null move driven internal iterative deepening?
- bool UseNullDrivenIID = false;
-
// Internal iterative deepening margin. At Non-PV moves, when
// UseIIDAtNonPVNodes is true, we do an internal iterative deepening search
// when the static evaluation is at most IIDMargin below beta.
if (UseLogFile)
LogFile.open(get_option_value_string("Search Log Filename").c_str(), std::ios::out | std::ios::app);
- UseNullDrivenIID = get_option_value_bool("Null driven IID");
UseQSearchFutilityPruning = get_option_value_bool("Futility Pruning (Quiescence Search)");
UseFutilityPruning = get_option_value_bool("Futility Pruning (Main Search)");
Value approximateEval = quick_evaluate(pos);
bool mateThreat = false;
- bool nullDrivenIID = false;
bool isCheck = pos.is_check();
// Null move search
Value nullValue = -search(pos, ss, -(beta-delta-1), depth-R*OnePly, ply+1, false, threadID);
- // Check for a null capture artifact, if the value without the null capture
- // is above beta then mark the node as a suspicious failed low. We will verify
- // later if we are really under threat.
- if ( UseNullDrivenIID
- && nullValue < beta
- && depth > 6 * OnePly
- &&!value_is_mate(nullValue)
- && ttMove == MOVE_NONE
- && ss[ply + 1].currentMove != MOVE_NONE
- && pos.move_is_capture(ss[ply + 1].currentMove)
- && pos.see(ss[ply + 1].currentMove) + nullValue >= beta)
- nullDrivenIID = true;
-
pos.undo_null_move();
if (value_is_mate(nullValue))
// low score (which will cause the reduced move to fail high in the
// parent node, which will trigger a re-search with full depth).
if (nullValue == value_mated_in(ply + 2))
- {
mateThreat = true;
- nullDrivenIID = false;
- }
+
ss[ply].threatMove = ss[ply + 1].currentMove;
if ( depth < ThreatDepth
&& ss[ply - 1].reduction
search(pos, ss, beta, Min(depth/2, depth-2*OnePly), ply, false, threadID);
ttMove = ss[ply].pv[ply];
}
- else if (nullDrivenIID)
- {
- // The null move failed low due to a suspicious capture. Perhaps we
- // are facing a null capture artifact due to the side to move change
- // and this position should fail high. So do a normal search with a
- // reduced depth to get a good ttMove to use in the following full
- // depth search.
- Move tm = ss[ply].threatMove;
-
- assert(tm != MOVE_NONE);
- assert(ttMove == MOVE_NONE);
-
- search(pos, ss, beta, depth/2, ply, false, threadID);
- ttMove = ss[ply].pv[ply];
- ss[ply].threatMove = tm;
- }
// Initialize a MovePicker object for the current position, and prepare
// to search all moves:
o.push_back(Option("Full Depth Moves (non-PV nodes)", 3, 1, 100));
o.push_back(Option("Threat Depth", 5, 0, 100));
o.push_back(Option("Selective Plies", 7, 0, 10));
- o.push_back(Option("Null driven IID", false));
o.push_back(Option("Futility Pruning (Main Search)", true));
o.push_back(Option("Futility Pruning (Quiescence Search)", true));
o.push_back(Option("Futility Margin (Quiescence Search)", 50, 0, 1000));