From: Miguel Lahoz <miguel_lahoz@protonmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 14:26:03 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: Extend discovered checks regardless of SEE
X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?p=stockfish;a=commitdiff_plain;h=9050eac59564fe96b3f24d2889bbef7336b28100;ds=inline

Extend discovered checks regardless of SEE

A simple idea, but it makes sense: in current master the search is extended
for checks that are considered somewhat safe, and for for this we use the
static exchange evaluation which only considers the `to_sq` of a move.
This is not reliable for discovered checks, where another piece is giving
the check and is arguably a more dangerous type of check. Thus, if the check
is a discovered check, the result of SEE is not relevant and can be ignored.

STC:
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.50,4.50]
Total: 29370 W: 6583 L: 6274 D: 16513
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5c5062950ebc593af5d4d9b5

LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 227341 W: 37972 L: 37165 D: 152204
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5c5094fb0ebc593af5d4dc2c

Bench: 3611854
---

diff --git a/src/search.cpp b/src/search.cpp
index de67560a..651bd95b 100644
--- a/src/search.cpp
+++ b/src/search.cpp
@@ -953,11 +953,13 @@ moves_loop: // When in check, search starts from here
           else if (cutNode && singularBeta > beta)
               return beta;
       }
-      else if (    givesCheck // Check extension (~2 Elo)
-               &&  pos.see_ge(move))
+
+      // Check extension (~2 Elo)
+      else if (    givesCheck
+               && (pos.blockers_for_king(~us) & from_sq(move) || pos.see_ge(move)))
           extension = ONE_PLY;
 
-      // Extension if castling
+      // Castling extension
       else if (type_of(move) == CASTLING)
           extension = ONE_PLY;