From: Joona Kiiski <joona.kiiski@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:41:50 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Do not return unproven mate scores from null move search
X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?p=stockfish;a=commitdiff_plain;h=42de93ac15366d6d20c1b2fbf99b4780e8ac6617;ds=sidebyside

Do not return unproven mate scores from null move search

Causes very small functional change which is not observable with
our usual set of test positions.

However change is observable fx. with following position:
4k3/3r4/5Q2/6K1/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
go depth 24

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

diff --git a/src/search.cpp b/src/search.cpp
index f5552e78..67c98709 100644
--- a/src/search.cpp
+++ b/src/search.cpp
@@ -1378,6 +1378,10 @@ namespace {
 
         if (nullValue >= beta)
         {
+            // Do not return unproven mate scores
+            if (nullValue >= value_mate_in(PLY_MAX))
+                nullValue = beta;
+
             if (depth < 6 * OnePly)
                 return nullValue;