From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 23:56:05 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Remove an useless Max() in passed pawns evaluation
X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?p=stockfish;a=commitdiff_plain;h=8b6bcd973134da634a4bd7494f085b68af36fd70

Remove an useless Max() in passed pawns evaluation

There is no reason for that since tr cannot become negative.

Spotted by Ralph Stoesser.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/src/evaluate.cpp b/src/evaluate.cpp
index 479deb9f..fe28da3f 100644
--- a/src/evaluate.cpp
+++ b/src/evaluate.cpp
@@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ namespace {
         assert(pos.pawn_is_passed(Us, s));
 
         int r = int(relative_rank(Us, s) - RANK_2);
-        int tr = Max(0, r * (r - 1));
+        int tr = r * (r - 1);
 
         // Base bonus based on rank
         Value mbonus = Value(20 * tr);