/// The Stats struct stores moves statistics. According to the template parameter
-/// the class can store History, Gains and Countermoves. History records how often
+/// the class can store History and Countermoves. History records how often
/// different moves have been successful or unsuccessful during the current search
-/// and is used for reduction and move ordering decisions. Gains records the move's
-/// best evaluation gain from one ply to the next and is used for pruning decisions.
+/// and is used for reduction and move ordering decisions.
/// Countermoves store the move that refute a previous one. Entries are stored
/// using only the moving piece and destination square, hence two moves with
/// different origin but same destination and piece will be considered identical.
-template<bool Gain, typename T>
+template<typename T>
struct Stats {
static const Value Max = Value(250);
void update(Piece pc, Square to, Value v) {
- if (Gain)
- table[pc][to] = std::max(v, table[pc][to] - 1);
-
- else if (abs(table[pc][to] + v) < Max)
+ if (abs(table[pc][to] + v) < Max)
table[pc][to] += v;
}
T table[PIECE_NB][SQUARE_NB];
};
-typedef Stats< true, Value> GainsStats;
-typedef Stats<false, Value> HistoryStats;
-typedef Stats<false, Move> MovesStats;
-typedef Stats<false, HistoryStats> CounterMovesHistoryStats;
+typedef Stats<Value> HistoryStats;
+typedef Stats<Move> MovesStats;
+typedef Stats<HistoryStats> CounterMovesHistoryStats;
/// MovePicker class is used to pick one pseudo legal move at a time from the
Value DrawValue[COLOR_NB];
HistoryStats History;
CounterMovesHistoryStats CounterMovesHistory;
- GainsStats Gains;
MovesStats Countermoves;
template <NodeType NT, bool SpNode>
TT.clear();
History.clear();
CounterMovesHistory.clear();
- Gains.clear();
Countermoves.clear();
}
}
}
- // Step 5. Evaluate the position statically and update parent's gain statistics
+ // Step 5. Evaluate the position statically
if (inCheck)
{
ss->staticEval = eval = VALUE_NONE;
if (ss->skipEarlyPruning)
goto moves_loop;
- if ( !pos.captured_piece_type()
- && ss->staticEval != VALUE_NONE
- && (ss-1)->staticEval != VALUE_NONE
- && (move = (ss-1)->currentMove) != MOVE_NULL
- && move != MOVE_NONE
- && type_of(move) == NORMAL)
- {
- Square to = to_sq(move);
- Gains.update(pos.piece_on(to), to, -(ss-1)->staticEval - ss->staticEval);
- }
-
// Step 6. Razoring (skipped when in check)
if ( !PvNode
&& depth < 4 * ONE_PLY
// Futility pruning: parent node
if (predictedDepth < 7 * ONE_PLY)
{
- futilityValue = ss->staticEval + futility_margin(predictedDepth)
- + 128 + Gains[pos.moved_piece(move)][to_sq(move)];
+ futilityValue = ss->staticEval + futility_margin(predictedDepth) + 256;
if (futilityValue <= alpha)
{