From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:54:27 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Don't allow LMR to fall in qsearch
X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?p=stockfish;a=commitdiff_plain;h=1b69ef8e6c121f64b998533e5393470dad3a8453

Don't allow LMR to fall in qsearch

And increase LMR limit. Tests show no change ELO wise,
but we prefer to take the risk to commit anyhow becuase
is a 'prune reducing' patch.

After 10749 games
Mod vs Orig: 1670 - 1676 - 7403 ELO 0 (+-3.7)

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
---

diff --git a/src/search.cpp b/src/search.cpp
index 5440dd1e..3ec60e7c 100644
--- a/src/search.cpp
+++ b/src/search.cpp
@@ -966,7 +966,7 @@ split_point_start: // At split points actual search starts from here
 
       // Step 15. Reduced depth search (LMR). If the move fails high will be
       // re-searched at full depth.
-      if (   depth > 3 * ONE_PLY
+      if (   depth > 4 * ONE_PLY
           && !isPvMove
           && !captureOrPromotion
           && !dangerous
@@ -975,11 +975,10 @@ split_point_start: // At split points actual search starts from here
           &&  ss->killers[1] != move)
       {
           ss->reduction = reduction<PvNode>(depth, moveCount);
-          Depth d = newDepth - ss->reduction;
+          Depth d = std::max(newDepth - ss->reduction, ONE_PLY);
           alpha = SpNode ? sp->alpha : alpha;
 
-          value = d < ONE_PLY ? -qsearch<NonPV>(pos, ss+1, -(alpha+1), -alpha, DEPTH_ZERO)
-                              : - search<NonPV>(pos, ss+1, -(alpha+1), -alpha, d);
+          value = -search<NonPV>(pos, ss+1, -(alpha+1), -alpha, d);
 
           doFullDepthSearch = (value > alpha && ss->reduction != DEPTH_ZERO);
           ss->reduction = DEPTH_ZERO;