From: Stéphane Nicolet <cassio@free.fr>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:57:54 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Isolated pawn simplification
X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?p=stockfish;a=commitdiff_plain;h=2694ef23c3ca66a0a55e467750e79ef2cd5e5315

Isolated pawn simplification

STC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 117822 W: 21697 L: 21744 D: 74381

LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 92307 W: 12330 L: 12305 D: 67672

Bench: 8813983

Resolves #659
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diff --git a/src/pawns.cpp b/src/pawns.cpp
index 86745924..c5c42ff1 100644
--- a/src/pawns.cpp
+++ b/src/pawns.cpp
@@ -31,12 +31,8 @@ namespace {
   #define V Value
   #define S(mg, eg) make_score(mg, eg)
 
-  // Isolated pawn penalty by opposed flag and file
-  const Score Isolated[2][FILE_NB] = {
-    { S(31, 36), S(45, 41), S(50, 41), S(50, 41),
-      S(50, 41), S(50, 41), S(45, 41), S(31, 36) },
-    { S(21, 24), S(30, 28), S(33, 28), S(33, 28),
-      S(33, 28), S(33, 28), S(30, 28), S(21, 24) } };
+  // Isolated pawn penalty by opposed flag
+  const Score Isolated[2] = { S(45, 40), S(30, 27) };
 
   // Backward pawn penalty by opposed flag
   const Score Backward[2] = { S(56, 33), S(41, 19) };
@@ -161,7 +157,7 @@ namespace {
 
         // Score this pawn
         if (!neighbours)
-            score -= Isolated[opposed][f];
+            score -= Isolated[opposed];
 
         else if (backward)
             score -= Backward[opposed];