From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:48:14 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Cache evaluation score in qsearch
X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?p=stockfish;a=commitdiff_plain;h=5a0581498cde3d0904924d8ef7ed25ea1a2c855a;hp=5a0581498cde3d0904924d8ef7ed25ea1a2c855a

Cache evaluation score in qsearch

Instead of just drop evaluation score after stand pat
logic save it in TT so to be reused if the same position
occurs again.

Note that we NEVER use the cached value apart to avoid an
evaluation call, in particulary we never return to caller
after a succesful tt hit.

To accomodate this a new value type VALUE_TYPE_EVAL has been
introduced so that ok_to_use_TT() always returns false.

With this patch we cut about 15% of total evaluation calls.

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