From: Vizvezdenec <Vizvezdenec@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 03:43:04 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Scale down complexity for almost unwinnable endgames
X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?p=stockfish;a=commitdiff_plain;h=8aecf2698184babce57ccfd2ba5948342e29c325;hp=8aecf2698184babce57ccfd2ba5948342e29c325

Scale down complexity for almost unwinnable endgames

This patch greatly scales down complexity of endgames when the
following conditions are all true together:

- pawns are all on one flank
- stronger side king is not outflanking weaker side
- no passed pawns are present

This should improve stockfish evaluation of obvious draws 4 vs 3, 3 vs 2
and 2 vs 1 pawns in rook/queen/knight/bishop single flank endgames where
strong side can not make progress.

passed STC
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) [0.50,4.50]
Total: 15843 W: 3601 L: 3359 D: 8883

passed LTC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 121275 W: 20107 L: 19597 D: 81571

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2298

Bench: 3954190

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How to continue from there?

a) This could be a powerful idea for refining some parts of the evaluation
   function, a bit like when we try quadratics or other equations to emphasize
   certain situations (xoto10).

b) Some other combinaison values for this bonus can be done further, or
   overall retuning of weight and offset while keeping the formula simple.
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